On the track of future urban mobility—safety, human factors and technology
25–26th October 2018
Porto, Portugal
Local organizers: Sara Ferreira, António Cuoto, António Lobo, José Pedro Tavares
The conference was organised in tight co-operation with the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto.
Programme
Automated driving
An incremental approach to study driver-vehicle interaction in the context of progressive automation
António Lobo
The deployment of automated vehicles in urban environments: traffic strategies in a safety perspective
Lígia Conceição
Acceptance of Cornering ABS and other Advanced Rider Assistance Systems (ARAS) and their potential for crash avoidance/mitigation
Lukas Hartwig
Identifying Shortcomings in Autonomous Vehicles Technologies
Eduardo Ribeiro Neto Marques
Safety impacts
A controlled trial to allow motorcycles on bus lanes in Tel-Aviv: an assessment of mobility and safety impacts
Victoria Gitelman
Safety of mobility scooters: lessons learned from in-depth accident investigations
Ragnhild Davidse
A comprehensive and unified framework for analysing the impacts on road safety of measures influencing speed
Rune Elvik
Accidents and prevention
The severity of pedestrian crashes in Lisbon
Carlos Roque
Driver visibility assessment on urban crossing environments based on point clouds
Lucía Díaz-Vilariño
Estimating the potential of warning system, which prevents road accidents at pedestrian crossings
Juri Ess
Policies and implementations
Road safety benchmarking in Dutch municipalities: theoretical framework, implementation and webtool
Charlotte Bax
Spatiotemporal Variation of Bicycling Collision and Injury in Berlin: Implications for Local Transport Policy Making
Rafael M. Medeiros
Special session: Surrogate Measures of Safety
Comparison of two nearness-to-collision surrogate indicators at a signalized intersection in Minsk using Extreme Value Theory
Attila Borsos
Evaluation of Surrogate measures of safety for vulnerable road users—results and lessons from Horizon 2020 project InDeV
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Framework for analysing cyclist safety per movement: Case study at discontinuity locations along the cycling facility
Matin Nabavi Niaki
Contribution of a Novel Speed Reduction Equipment to Promote Road Safety
Francisco Duarte
Safety effects of traffic calming on roads through villages: proactive evaluation using GPS data
Mariusz Kiec
Parameters and statistical modeling for comparison of simulated and observed traffic conflicts. A case study on 2+1 road sections
Carmelo D’Agostino
Naturalistic driving
Using naturalistic driving data to evaluate speed limit reductions: energy, environmental and safety assessment
Patricia Baptista
Quantitative analysis of rear-end crashes and near crashes in a commercial fleet in Shanghai
Giulio Bianchi Piccinini
Posters
Can an experience with no car use change a future mode choice behaviour?
Chiara Ferrante
Using data from a smartphone app to analyse distraction and drowsiness of drivers
Sara Ferreira
The use of alternative transport means in city centers: insights from an observational survey
Alfred Shalom Hakkert
Quality of pedestrians’ mobility: exploratory study in Coimbra
Fátima Pereira Da Silva
The interface of Transport and Health Engineering for the understanding of Brazilian urban mobility from the perspective of the elderly person
Adriana de Sousa
The tale of two pedestrian deaths: A first of sorts
Thomas Rajesh
Pedestrians behaviour at unsignalized crosswalks: comparison of results based on simulated urban environments with field observations
Francisco Soares
The relative impact of cyclists’ appearance and infrastructure layout on speed and lateral distance while overtaking bicyclists: a simulator approach
Anja Katharina Huemer
Exploring cyclist behavior at signalized crossing: perspective of cyclist-pedestrian conflict analysis
Ming-Yi Tseng
Incremental and disruptive innovations in the modal cycle: an incentive factor for sustainable mobility?
Cristiano Magno
Attitudes and behavioural preferences of bicyclists using smartphone app: a comparison in two urban areas in Italy and USA
Carmelo D’Agostino
The perception of the operational efficiency, by the user of the collective transportation of the metropolitan system of public transport network of the metropolitan region of Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Roberto Carlos Sousa
Home-school travel: a path analysis of factors underlying the choices of the Italian parents
Natalia Distefano
Using real-time information to improve Emergency Medical Service response: A vehicle dispatching analysis
Marco Amorim
Winter road maintenance in Portugal: The case study of Bragança
Nuno Gama
Road crashes and meteorological conditions in Porto, Portugal: An analysis with lagged effects
António Lobo
Exploratory study of motorcyclists’ risky behavior at an unsignalised intersection using the Swedish Traffic Conflict Technique
Noor Azreena Kamaluddin
Are the safety benefits of the treatments at pedestrian crossings still valuable in presence of autonomous vehicles?
Carmelo D’Agostino
Can micro-simulation help in getting better exposure measures?
Carmelo D’Agostino
Evaluation of the safety effect of bike boxes
Harry Lahrmann
The “go-along” approach to study the relationship between the environment and residents of Brasilia
Caroline Machado
Adverse weather and vulnerable road users’ casualty in some European countries
Ruth Bergel-Hayat
Analysing the relationship between freeway flow parameters and safety, through the functional form of a crash prediction model. The case of run-off-road crashes
Carlos Roque
Identification of potential relationships between road safety and design and operation of roadside elements
Carlos Roque
Systemic approach for the preventive road safety incidence assessment of cycle rickshaw
Juan Felipe Restrepo-Gonzalez
Modeling to assess gender and age influence on traffic injury severities in Brazil: urban vs. rural environment
Philippe Silva
Sustainable mobility for irregular settlements
Estéfanny Mendonça
Proposition of mitigating measures to minimize the impacts implaced by a travel generator pole of church type: a case study in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Kelves Vinícius Souza
The effect of urban design on the pedestrians’ safety perception: lighting, vegetation, and roadway lanes
Juan Luis Higuera-Trujillo
The influence of a bypass road on road safety
Wafa Elias