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Safety performance measures represent an useful tool for evaluating road safety conditions on the basis of objective parameters deducible from the vehicle kinematics. In this context, safety performances are expressed in terms of indicators representing interactions between different pairs of vehicles belonging to the traffic stream. Safety performance is expressed from the perspective of rear-end vehicle interactions. Differences in safety performance are discussed with respect to type of indicator and traffic conditions. When these indicators reach a certain critical value (threshold), a possible accident scenario is identified. Most common approaches used to acquire vehicle tracking data are based on video image processing algorithms and satellite navigation systems. However, many studies are increasingly interested in the emerging smartphone technologies for tracking people, and hence vehicles. Due to the fact …