Don't wait for accidents to happen

Data and methods for evidence-based safety measures and applications

23–24 October 2025

Berlin, Germany

Local organisers: Peter Wagner, Marek Junghans, Ragna Hoffmann

The conference is organized in close co-operation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation Systems.


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Important dates

Date Action
15 April 2025 (extended)
Abstract submission deadline
16 June 2025
Registration opens
31 August 2025
Early Bird fee expiration
1 October 2025
Registration closed
21-22 October 2025
23–24 October 2025
25 October 2025
1 October 2025–
31 January 2026

Social media

Please, use the hashtags #ictct2025berlin and #ictct in your posts related to the conference.

Traffic Safety Researcher's course

As usual, the ICTCT organizes the Traffic Safety Researcher’s course in connection to the conference.

More information about the course can be found here.

General Assembly

The ICTCT General Assembly will meet after the conference.

More information about the General Assembly can be found here.

Call

The objective of the conference is to support the understanding and the execution of suitable approaches to move towards a transportation system without severely injured or killed road users. Due to the rapid progress in the development of powerful computing technology and the enormous potential of artificial intelligence, we have the opportunity to uncover the effects of traffic infrastructure, physical conditions, traffic environment and other risk factors, as for example human behaviour, on traffic safety.

Conference topics

Although the number of severe and fatal road user crashes has decreased (especially in Western countries) thanks to effective measures for road safety, those numbers are still alarmingly high. Established methods such as crash or conflict data analysis have helped to understand traffic safety. However, as crash numbers decrease, areas for progress may become less clear. Powerful methods are required to analyse a large amount of data to achieve evidence on the effects of risk factors on traffic safety. The smart application of AI promises to unveil and fill the current knowledge gaps and understanding the effects of, for instance, infrastructure on road user behaviour and road safety. The application of AI goes hand in hand with novel methods of data generation and data enhancement for traffic safety analysis. Therefore, ways to improve the quality of road safety data including performant methods for data collection, data analysis and interpretation, data modelling, and data enhancement are urgently needed. Contributions featuring innovative methods, approaches, models and tools for the assessment of road safety and the reduction of the impacts of road crashes with special attention to vulnerable road users (VRU), as well as any other road safety related aspects are welcomed.

A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:

  • Data acquisition, data fusion, data analysis and data processing for safety research (e.g., crash data, trajectory data, traffic data, infrastructure data, medical data, behavioural and interaction data, research bicycles, e-scooters or other forms of micro-mobility,
    human behaviour or naturalistic driving studies, eye-tracking, VRU simulators etc.)
  • Methods and approaches for safety analysis, e.g., artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs), surrogate measures of safety (SMoS), injury risk functions (IRF), information theory, signal processing, simulation approaches, crash prediction models (CPMs), highway safety manual (HSM) predictive models, safety in numbers (SiN), collision risk quantification and prediction.
  • Safety applications and measures (e.g., V2X for safety alerts, automation, geofencing, safety/criticality dashboards, mobile applications, intelligent traffic management/control, road design tools for traffic planning), including human responses to these measures.
  • Any other methods relevant to improving road safety: from various possible perspectives: social sciences, psychology, management, economics, road safety management, product design, etc.

Special sessions

  1. Surrogate Measures of Safety (SMoS). The scope of this session are practical and methodological studies using near-crashes or other safety-critical events in traffic for safety diagnosis. This includes traffic conflict observations, analysis of near-misses in naturalistic data, the generation and use of injury risk functions and the adoption of microscopic simulation. Authors aiming at presenting in this session may mark the checkbox “SMoS special session” during the submission process to ensure the correct assignment of reviewers.
  2. Infrastructure safety: The authors are invited to present practical and methodological approaches for impact assessment of risk factors and safety measures with focus on infrastructure design (e.g., urban and rural roads, crossing types, cycle infrastructure motorways, railway crossings; various traffic, luminosity and weather conditions). The attendees of this session may mark “Infrastructure safety” during the submission process to ensure the correct assignment of reviewers.  

Authors aiming at presenting in one of these sessions are requested to mark the appropriate checkbox during the submission process to ensure the correct assignment of reviewers.

Submission

Important note

Abstract submission is handled by the local host’s (DLR) website (link).

Registration

Important note

Registration is handled by the local host’s (DLR) website (link).

The conference registration will open shortly.

Sold out!!!

The registration for the conference is closed, the maximum amount of participants for the venue is reached. Should you want to be on the waiting list or should you want to be kept up to date on any developments about the conference, please send a message to ictct2024@tudelft.nl

It is still possible to register for joining the Social event (for those already registered for the conference).

General information

The conference registration fee depends on whether you are an ICTCT member (individual, or affiliated with an organization that is an institutional member) as well as on the country that you represent. The fee covers the conference materials, entrance to the Welcome reception (Wednesday), coffee breaks and lunches, and a seat at the Conference dinner (Thursday). It does not cover the social events.

Cancellation policy

All cancellations must be received in writing by the organisers of the conference. For written cancellations received on or before 31 August 2025, 90% of the registration cost will be refunded (including conference registration and social event). 50% of the registration cost will be refunded if a written cancellation is received between 1 September–2 October 2025. No refunds will be made for cancellations received after 2 October 2025. All refunds are subject to €50 standard card processing fees.

Early Bird fees

Category A Category B Category C Category D
ICTCT member
EUR 460
EUR 420
EUR 270
EUR 200
Non-member
EUR 620
EUR 500
EUR 310
EUR 220
Student
EUR 250
EUR 200
EUR 120
EUR 80

The Early Bird fees apply during 16 June–31 August 2025.

Full fees

Category A Category B Category C Category D
ICTCT member
EUR 590
EUR 520
EUR 340
EUR 250
Non-member
EUR 750
EUR 600
EUR 370
EUR 270
Student
EUR 300
EUR 250
EUR 150
EUR 90

Full fees apply during 1 September–2 October 2025.

On-site fees

Category A Category B Categories C & D
ICTCT member
USD 240
USD 100
USD 60
Non-member
USD 400
USD 160
USD 110

On-site fees apply if paid during the conference days, 16–18 October 2023.

Student rates

Students enrolled in Bachelor or Master courses can take advantage of the ‘student rates’. Student rate does not include Welcome reception and Conference dinner; these can be added as extra costs (€95). To be eligible to the ‘student rate’, an official letter (in English) must be provided from the home university, duly signed and stamped and indicating the current status of the student. This document must be submitted when registering. Please send a scanned copy of this letter.

Country categories

ICTCT relies on World Bank’s country classification by income. The country categories below are given as an indication, the most recent classification must be checked on the World Bank web page for the current year.

American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Chile, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guyana, Hong Kong SAR (China), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Rep. Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao SAR (China), Malta, Monaco, Nauru, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Palau, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin (French part), Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (China), Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Virgin Islands (U.S.)

Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Georgia, Grenada, Guatemala, Indonesia, Islamic Rep. Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, North Macedonia, Paraguay, Peru, Serbia, South Africa, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine

Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Rep. Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Arab Rep. Egypt, Eswatini, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Fed. Sts. Micronesia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Dem. Rep. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Dem. People’s Rep. Korea, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Uganda, Rep. Yemen

Special dietary requirements

Please be aware that the food served may contain or come into contact with common allergens, such as dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, tree nuts, peanuts, fish or shellfish.

There will be vegetarian and vegan alternatives served.

If you are allergic to any food or ingredients, please state it clearly in ‘Other comments to organizers’.

Social event

The social event on Friday (Bike Tour Scheveningen) is not included in the conference registration fee.
The price (per person) is €38.

The social event on Saturday (Guided tour in Delft) is not included in the conference registration fee.
The price (per person) is €9.

For the social events you need to register here.

Accompanying persons

Ticket for an accompanying person for the welcome reception and the conference dinner can be purchased at additional costs of €150. The accompanying persons may also join the social events (see the pricing under social events). Please contact ICTCT2025@dlr.de , if you would like to register accompanying persons. Therefore, we will send you an invitation code.

Registration and payment form

The payments can be done using a PayPal account, a credit card (Visa Card and MaterCard) or by bank transfer. The process is handled by the event management service BESL Eventagentur GmbH & Co.KG. None of your credit card details is viewed or stored by the ICTCT.

There won’t be on-site fees.

Programme

Conference venue

Berlin, Germany’s capital, is an ideal location for the conference. Beyond the conference, Berlin’s rich history and vibrant culture make it a compelling destination. Iconic landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall Memorial, along with dynamic neighborhoods such as Mitte and Kreuzberg, provide ample opportunities for cultural exploration. Combining professional inspiration with the unique charm of one of Europe’s most exciting capitals, Berlin ensures a truly rewarding experience for all participants.

The VKU-Forum is a modern event venue located in the heart of the city, offering advanced facilities for conferences, workshops, and networking events. It features flexible room layouts, cutting-edge technology, and excellent catering services, with easy access to public transport and only a seven-minute walk from Berlin Central Station.

Take a video tour of the location or explore the rooms in panoramic photos:

VKU Service GmbH / BILDSCHÖN

Address: Invalidenstraße 91, 10115 Berlin

Book of abstracts

You can access the book of abstracts here.

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

18:00–22:00

Welcome reception

Copyright: Coffee Fellows Cube GmbH

We will meet for the welcome reception in the Foodfactory Cube Berlin. The restaurant is located between Berlin Central Station and Spreebogenpark with an excellent view on the Federal Chancellery and Reichstag building. We will have a streetfood buffet and drinks 18:00 – 20:00, later on self-pay-basis until 22:00. The address: Washingtonplatz 3, 10557 Berlin.

Thursday, 23 October 2025

8:30–9:00

Registration

9:00–9:15

Welcome

9:15–10:15

Keynote speech I: Maria Segui-Gomez / Chair: Stijn Daniels

‘Assessing progress on Road Safety Decades of Action’

María Seguí-Gómez
WHO

Maria Segui-Gomez is a physician and doctor in public health who trained at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and Harvard University (USA).  Following academic appointments at Johns Hopkins University (USA), University of Virginia Medical School (USA), and University of Navarra (Spain) she became a tenured professor in preventive medicine and public health.

Dr. Segui-Gomez’s research focuses on the prevention of injuries, mostly road traffic crashes. She conducted her research at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and Universidad de Navarra where she established the European Center for Injury Prevention, which became a WHO collaborating Center. She has authored more than two hundred works in scientific papers, book chapters, and books.

In 2011, Dr. Segui-Gomez was appointed as General Director for Public Health, Drug Dependencies and Consumer Affairs under the Regional Minister of Health of Castille La Mancha (Spain) and in 2012 she was appointed as General Director for Traffic for Spain under the Ministry of Interior where she supervised a budget of approximately 800 million euros yearly. Under her directorship road fatalities were reduced by 18% in Spain.

Since 2016 she serves as international road safety consultant having worked for the Federation International de l’ Automobile (FIA) and its High-Level Panel, and the World Bank. She currently works for WHO where she coordinated the 2023 Global Status Report on Road Safety.

10:15–11:30

Oral sessions

Chair: Marek Junghans

Understanding organisations’ responsibilities and engagement in occupational road safety – a necessity for saving lives beyond 2025

Hanna Wennberg
Tor-Olav Nævestad

Enhancing Bicycle Safety in Hamburg: An Infrastructure-Based Approach by PrioBike-HH

Björn Kruse
Thorben Finger
Samaneh Beheshti-Kashi
Maya Kayser

Prioritizing Pedestrian Safety: A Traffic Hazard Assessment of School Routes

Shabnam Abdollahi

Towards zero road deaths by 2050? Challenges and gaps in the EU

Stijn Daniels

Chair: Peter Wagner

Evaluating Geometry-Induced Stability Risks for Micromobility Users Under Free-Riding Conditions: A Multi-Indicator Approach

M.H. Sabbaghian
D. Llopis-Castelló
A. García

Putting cyclists in boxes: an analysis of the bike box

Ruben A. Kuipers
Carmelo D’Agostino

Analysis of the combined effect of AVs and cycling infrastructure on perceived level of safety: a bicycle simulator study

Amira Hammami
Attila Borsos

Measuring the Impact of Road Safety Education for Cyclists: A Novel Approach to Design and Assess Interventions

Michael van Eggermond
Dorothea Schaffner

11:30–11:45

Break

11:45–13:00

Oral sessions

Chair: Anja Huemer

Analysis of driver reaction to a pedestrian crossing the road outside pedestrian markings

Andrea Paliotto
Monica Meocci
Francesca La Torre
Costanza Carini
Camilla Mazzi
Alessandro Marradi

Comparison of measurement models for acceptance of the driver monitoring systems (DMS)

İ. Öztürk
E. Lehtonen
R. Madigan
Y.M. Lee
E. Aittoniemi
N. Merat

Constructionist learning principles in driving lessons

Thomas Wold
Audun Stiansen
Johan Lofsnes Haugen

The moderating influence of pedestrians’ traffic beliefs and superstitions on their risk perception and safe walking practices

Enoch F. Sam
Wafa Elias
Prince K. Odame
James Damsere-Derry
Gift Dumedah

Chair: Niels Agerholm

How Safe Are Zebra Crossings for Pedestrians and Cyclists? A Surrogate Safety Study of Two Urban Sites in Germany

Max Theisen
Kay Gimm

Influence of Traffic Flow and Merging / Diverging Ramp Design on Take-Over performance: A Cross-Country Comparison of Conditionally Automated Vehicles

G. Marinelli
A. Hassani
A. Hazoor
A. Karimi
M. Bassani

Width labels as Safety Performance Indicator for Cycle Tracks: a national study at Dutch urban cycle tracks

P. Schepers
M.M. Reijne

Province-Based Crash Frequency Prediction on Two-Lane Rural Highways Segments Using a Random Parameter Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Model

A. Karimi
A. Lioi
A. L. Tefa
M. Bassani

13:00–13:15

Group picture

13:15–14:15

Lunch and mingling 🍲

14:15–15:15

Poster sessions

Chair: Giuseppina Pappalardo

Average speed control (evaluation, method) in the Latvian road network

Valentina Amare
Atis Zarins

Constrained motorway layout: does it lead to negative safety implications?

Victoria Gitelman

Floating Car Data for road friction monitoring: an innovative approach to improve safety

Costanza Carini
Camilla Mazzi
Monica Meocci
Alessandro Marradi
Andrea Paliotto
Francesca La Torre

TIAS: A fine-grained traffic area dataset for AI-based segmentation to support large-scale road safety analysis

Felix Rauch
Corentin Henry
Jens Hellekes
Nina Merkle
Franz Kurz

Chair: Giuseppina Pappalardo

Analysis of the safety of vulnerable road users at crossings without traffic signals across 2 or more lanes in one direction

J. Wachnicka
W. Kustra
M. Kwiatkowska

Traffic Safety Intelligence – A Surrogate Measure of Safety Toolchain

Erik Antonsson
Ravi Patel

Does Segregating Motorcyclists Improve Safety on Non-Urban Highways? An Extreme Value Theory Approach

Harish Kumar Saini
Ankit Kathuria

Calibrating the Exponential speed-crash model for different speed management and traffic calming measures

M. Kieć
J. Ambros

Chair: Giuseppina Pappalardo

The effect of navigation modalities on driver performance

M. Brudvik Norell
B. Thorslund

Enhancing Road Safety for Vulnerable Road Users: A Gamified Bicycle Simulator Training

D. Martinez Garcia
K. Gröne
M. Fischer

Two directions, one goal: enhance cycling in one-way streets

Ebru Bölük
David Wartchow
Stefanie Marker

Merging onto a motorway in the presence of platooning trucks: preferences from car drivers

S.P. Duarte
T. Botelho
S. Ferreira
A. Lobo

15:15–15:30

Break

15:30–16:30

Poster sessions

Chair: Mandy Dotzauer

Implementing driving hours regulations for commercial vehicles in Nigeria: challenges and impacts

Olusegun Adegoke Oluwole

Does Changing Perspective Improve Safety? Examining Camera Views for the Remote Operator of Highly Automated Vehicles

Andreas Schrank
Marc Wilbrink
Carsten Borchert
Stefan Brandenburg
Michael Oehl

Involvement in Traffic Accidents Among Drivers with Neurological Conditions and Reporting Medically Unfit Drivers

Helena Selander
Lars Englund
Hanna C. Persson

A Software Solution for Analysis and Heatmap Generation for Pupil Core Eye Tracking Data

Vanshmeet Kour
Vipul Kumar
Kudurupaka Vamshi Krishna
Pushpa Choudhary

Chair: Mandy Dotzauer

Effectiveness of digital media in accident prevention – a comparison between VR- and tablet-based approaches

V.S. Hilse
D. Preissner
M. Pohle
N. Strauzenberg

Navigating Urban Stressors: Using VR to Assess Cognitive Load and Visual Attention in Cargo Bike Riding

H. Jeon
O. Singler
J. Ehlers

Unconscious and conscious strategies of older drivers for compensating for age-related changes when driving a motor vehicle

Nora Strauzenberg

Bridging the Yielding Gap: Examining Drivers, Cyclists, and E-Scooter Riders at Pedestrian Crossings

Hiba Nassereddine

Chair: Mandy Dotzauer

Role of Driver Demographics and Road Geometry on Maximum Speed Reduction: Comparison of Day and Night Driving

Shivam Sharma
Pushpa Choudhary

Transportation Utilization Patterns Among Youth Aged 10-18 and Their Parents During Routine Days and an Emergency Period: A Case Study of Haifa, Israel’s Third-Largest City

Lotem Kirmayer
Dolev Karolinsky
Noit Ziv
Wafa Elias

Factors Influencing Average Fixation Duration of Pedestrians: Insights into Situational Awareness Under Time Pressure

Apurwa Dhoke
Choudhary Harshita
Pushpa Choudhary

Selected risk factors of senior crashes mechanism

Katerina Bucsuházy

16:30–16:45

Break

16:45–17:45

Poster sessions

Chair: Kay Gimm

Influence of weather on car-following at an urban intersection

Marek Junghans
Claudia Leschik
Clemens Schicktanz
Peter Wagner

Surrogate Measures of Safety (SMoS) for “Right-Hook Crashes” between Cars and Motorbikes

Hao-Che Huang
Yen-Hsiang Chen
Chun-Fu Lin
Shih-Chen Chiu
Yu-Chen Chen
Lei-Jei Wang

Long-Term Analysis of Driver Behaviour in the Dilemma Zone at a Signalized Intersection

Clemens Schicktanz
Kay Gimm

Challenges and Lessons Learned in Tram-VRU Conflict Study

N. Chkhartishvili
J. Mesimäki
M. Penttinen

Chair: Kay Gimm

Towards Safer Roads: A Data-Driven Ground-Aerial Fusion Approach for Enhanced Ego-Localization

A.E. Ben Zekri
R. Bahmanyar
H. Chaabouni-Chouayakh

Camera-based bike infrastructure and cyclist gesture recognition for trajectory prediction of cyclists

Clemens Groß

Predicting High-Risk Accident Locations with Floating Car Data: A Combined AI Analysis of Braking and Incident Patterns

Monica Meocci
Camilla Mazzi
Costanza Carini
Alessandro Marradi
Andrea Paliotto
Francesca La Torre

Conflict prediction of vehicles and cyclists at urban intersections by time-series classification

Hagen Saul

Chair: Kay Gimm

Developing variations of a driving simulator screening test: A step toward fairer driver tests and safer drivers

Birgitta Thorslund
J. Söderman
E. Marsja
H. Selander

Examining the variations in situational awareness of impaired pedestrians using Markov Entropy modelling

Kudurupaka Vamshi Krishna
Pushpa Choudhary

Cargo Bikes in Everyday Business Use: Insights from Six Pilot Companies

Clemens Kaufmann

TUMDOT-ING: Multimodal Trajectory Dataset from Aerial Observation

Alexander Kutsch
Martin Margreiter
Klaus Bogenberger

19:00–23:00

Gala dinner

The dinner will take place at Brasserie Am Gendarmenmarkt, Taubenstr. 30, 10117 Berlin. It takes approximately 20 minutes from the conference venue VKU-Forum to the restaurant – by underground U6 or bus 147. The dinner is included in the conference fee.

Friday, 24 October 2025

8:30–9:00

Registration

9:00–10:15

Poster sessions

Chair: Attila Borsos

Intelligent traffic detection for pedestrian-sensitive traffic light control and other safety applications

Kim Jannik Eggers
Robert Markowski
Martin Hesse

Traffic safety in synergy and conflict with other target areas

Matilda Magnusson

Safety issues with tram-trains in an urban environment: a before-after gaze behavior study

Csongor Horváth
Attila Borsos

Insights from an Automotive Use Case for Integrating Services in a Gaia-X Data Ecosystem

Ali Shakeri
Bernd Westphal
Miriam Grünhäuser
Maurizio Ahmann
Rainer Aue
Sascha Seidl

Enhancing traffic safety with thermal monocular 3D detection: Traffic conflict analysis through a digital shadow

Arnd Pettirsch
Alvaro Garcia-Hernandez

Chair: Attila Borsos

Micromobility braking performance in real-world safety-critical events from naturalistic data

C. Naude
E. Riahi
B. Canu
T. Serre

Hybrid AI and Physics-Based Modeling for Large-Scale Car Accident Injury Estimation

Davide Castellucci
Filippo Begani
Davide Moricoli
Monica Meocci

Potential assessment of future V2X solutions in car-bicycle accidents

Marcus Petzold
Konrad Reisinger
Robert Richter
Thomas Unger
Henrik Liers

Can You Hear the Collision Risk? A VR Study on Beamforming Warnings for Cyclists at Urban Intersections

Rodney Leitner
Thomas Jürgensohn
Michaela Rehm
Christoph Ende
Christian Weißig

Analysis of the combined effect of AVs and cycling infrastructure on the gaze behavior of cyclists

Ágoston Pál Sándor
Attila Borsos

Chair: Attila Borsos

EU-ASIA Platform for Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) Benchmarking and Exchange of Best Practices

Ghazwan Al-Haji

Systemic Causal Analysis of Nigerian Petroleum Tanker Road Crashes

Ibraheem Abdul-Azeez

Understanding Crash Risk at Uncontrolled Intersections: A Driver Perception-Based Conflict Analysis Using PLS-SEM

Anamika Yadav

Comparison of Individual differences in vibration and comfort of e-scooters and e-bikes

Mio Suzuki

10:15–10:30

Break

10:30–11:30

Poster sessions

Chair: Marek Junghans

Distance-Related Behaviour on German Motorways

M. Fischer
J. Böhm
J.E. Bakaba

Dangerous Ground or Peaceful Coexistence? A Data-Driven Approach to Analyzing the Subjective Safety of Pedestrians and Cyclists on Shared Pathways

Sven Lißner
Stefan Huber
Julius Reh
Miroslawa Lukawska

Drowsy driving prediction based on biometric and dynamic driving parameters

A. Lobo
E. Nunes
R. Almeida
V. Miguéis
S.P. Duarte

Enhancing Severe Traffic Crash Prediction through Data Balancing and Ensemble Learning: Case Study of England

Kevin Switala
Amirhossein Taheri
Gerd Müller
Steffen Müller

Chair: Marek Junghans

Modelling improvement of pedestrian road safety in Poland with time-series models

P. Olszewski
P. Dąbkowski
T. Dybicz

Estimating Crash Risk at Unsignalized intersection from Traffic Conflicts in Mixed Traffic Using Extreme Value Theory

Steffel Ludivin Tezong Feudjio
Chia Ngwah Elvis
Stephen Kome Fondzenyuy
Davide Shingo Usami
Luca Persia

Surrogate indicators for single bicycle falls

Kevin Gildea
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Oksana Yastremska-Kravchenko
Carl Johnsson
Carmelo D’agostino
Zhankun Chen

Assessing the statistical methods used to estimate the value of behavioral Safety Performance Indicators

J. Elgner
R. Andrášik
R. Zůvala
M. Šípek
J. Ambros

Chair: Marek Junghans

The influence of attention to speed limits on driving behaviour: an analysis through simulation and Eye-Tracking

Camilla Mazzi
Francesca La Torre
Andrea Paliotto
Monica Meocci
Costanza Carini
Alessandro Marradi

Impact of the Shisa Kanko Method on Driver Perception of Road Signs: An Eye Tracking Study

A. Pashkevich
J. Bartusiak
L. Żakowska

The Prevalence of Drinking and Driving with Cars and Powered Two-Wheelers – Insights from a Survey-Based Measurement in Germany

Bernhard Schrauth
Bernhard Mederer

Trajectory Trace: A traffic and trajectory data management platform for storage, visualization and analysis of streaming sensor data and historical data sets

Jörg Sichermann

11:30–12:30

Lunch and mingling 🍲

12:30–13:30

Keynote speech II: Anna-Lena Andersson / Chair: Aliaksei Laureshyn

‘How to distinguish accidents, suicides and natural deaths in road traffic. Methodology for reporting reliable data for assessing the manner of death and the importance of good quality data for traffic research.’

Anna-Lena Andersson
Swedish Traffic Medicine Association (STMF)

Anna-Lena Andersson, Doctor of Medical Sciences at the department of Orthopedics at Goteborg University and Senior advisor in traffic safety and in suicide prevention with special emphasis on the transport system.

As a counselor at hospitals, Anna-Lena earlier worked with patients, relatives, hospital staff, blue light authorities and often met people with trauma-related injuries or relatives of people who had died in traffic. Biopsychosocial factors are an important part of understanding the connections between the cause of a traffic accident and its consequences. This also applies to people who die due to suicide.

Her research led to many years of work at the Swedish Transport Administration to develop, test, and evaluate systematic methods for classifying deaths in the transport system.

Anna-Lena is affiliated to National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and she is the Scientific secretary of the Swedish Traffic Medicine Association (STMF).

13:30–13:45

Break

13:45–15:00

Oral sessions

Chair: Michael Böhm

Promoting safe and efficient pedestrian crossing behaviour using vehicle kinematics: an explainable machine learning approach

Yuwei Wang
Gustav Markkula
Yee Mun Lee

Pedestrian Interaction with Multiple Automated Vehicles: A Real-World Study on light-based eHMIs

Marc Wilbrink
Thorben Brandt
Nils Wendorff
Thomas Lobig
Michael Oehl

The influence of (bicycle) road design on cyclists’ and car drivers’ perceptions

A. Marie Harkin
Merten Wothge
Hong Ma
Fabian Surges

Left-turn Gap Acceptance Behavior of Pedestrians under Time Pressure: A Signalised Intersection Study

Apurwa Dhoke
B.R. Aditi
Pushpa Choudhary

Chair: Clemens Schicktanz

Proactive identification of high‐risk locations in road networks using crowdsourced reports and vehicle kinematic data

J. Ehlers
M. Grahl
A. García

Generalised Surrogate Safety Measure (GSSM): a self-supervised learning approach to proactive quantification of collision risk

Y. Jiao
S.C. Calvert
S. van Cranenburgh
J.W.C. van Lint

Interpretable Video Anomaly Detection for Enhancing Cyclist Safety

Çağkan Gürsoy
Klaas Dijkstra
Maya Aghaei

A Quantitative Study of Weather Effects on Cyclist Traffic Violations

M. Perlewitz
A.K. Huemer
A. Leonhardt

15:00–15:15

Break

15:15–16:30

Oral sessions

Chair: Matus Sucha

Eyes on the Road, Mind on the Move: Understanding Cyclist Workload through Sensors and Surveys

S. Cafiso
F. Kchour
A.K. Huemer
G. Pappalardo
J. Wachnicka

Comparison of Human and ADAS perception of lane markings in different road and environmental conditions

G. Pappalardo
O. Ghaderi
S. Cafiso
G.A. Dimauro

And after one or two boozy drinks? Investigating Young E-scooter Riders’ Decision-Making through Conjoint Analysis

J. Anke
M. Ringhand
F. Siebert
D. Hagmann
T. Stoll
M. Hackenfort

Modeling Speed Behavior on High-Risk Mountainous Roads: A Simulator Study of Professional and Non-Professional Drivers

Shivam Sharma
Pushpa Choudhary

Chair: Aliaksei Laureshyn

Deep Learning for Real-Time Detection of Vulnerable Pedestrians

Avigail Haliva
Rina Azoulay
Wafa Elias
Esther David
Matus Sucha

The potential of self-reported accidents for better site-specific road safety work

T.K.O. Madsen
H. Lahrmann
T. Hels

Analysing Safety in Numbers in a large data-set

A. Leich
R. Nippold
L. C. Touko Tcheumadjeu
P. Wagner

How does reference point determination influence trajectory estimation?

Zbyněk Janoška
Martina Bílová
Michal Bíl

16:30–16:50

Closing session & Announcement ICTCT 2026

18:15–20:30

Social event

Copyright: Stefan Maria Rother

The social event on Friday is an evening river cruise of the city centre. The tour allows you to gain a new perspective on the modern and historic places in the quieter evening hours after the busy day. Highlights are amongst others the Government District, Berlin Central Station, Bellevue Palace and Charlottenburg Palace. Food and beverages are available onboard on a self-pay basis.

Departure and return point: Pier Friedrichstraße /Reichstagsufer (Reichstagsufer 19, 10117 Berlin) – located on the south bank of the river Spree near Friedrichstraße station. It takes about 15 minutes from the conference venue VKU-Forum to the pier – by underground U6 or bus 147 or tram M5.

Please note: it’s not possible for wheelchair users to access the pier, because the pier can only be accessed via a staircase.

Departure: 18:15, arrival: 20:30

The social event on Friday is not included in the conference registration fee. The price (per person) is EUR 25. You need to register here.

Saturday, 25 October 2025

09:00–12:00

General Assembly

13:15–15:15

Excursion

Copyright: SECRET TOURS BERLIN

The excursion on Saturday is a 2-hour guided walk ‘Hidden Backyards in Mitte’.

You will leave the typical tourist routes and discover different hidden backyards and its stories in one of the oldest and best-preserved parts of Berlin. Today, popular restaurants, galleries and shops have set up in the former horse stables and factory buildings. The tour also takes you to follow the footsteps of Jewish life in Berlin.

Meeting point is Hackescher Markt 4, 10178 Berlin (near Berlin Hackescher Markt S-Bahn station) in front of the BUTLERS store. It takes about 15 minutes from the conference venue VKU-Forum to the meeting point by tram M5.

The tour ends on the corner of Oranienburger Straße / Tucholskystraße

Departure: 13:15, arrival: 15:15

The excursion on Saturday is not included in the conference registration fee. The price (per person) is EUR 15.  You need to register here.

Presentation

Information for ePoster presenters I ePoster platform Kubify

ICTCT is very serious in promoting poster format as equally important as and in many cases superior to an oral talk. Your poster will receive sufficient time and audience, while face-to-face contact allows for going into more detail with those who are genuinely interested in your research.

We would like to make the poster presentations much more attractive and interactive, therefore we are using Learning Toolbox platform – Kubify.

To prevent any potential misunderstanding—there will be no possibility to demonstrate printed posters.

Although the ICTCT 2025 takes place entirely in person, Kubify enables a modern, interactive and sustainable form of poster presentation – directly at your table onsite, on your own laptop.

The Learning Toolbox platform Kubify allows you to create and arrange a collection of material (we call it a stack) that can be used to present and share your work. At the simplest level you can just add a presentation or a pdf of your poster to your stack, but the platform allows you to do much more (e.g., text files, videos, websites, information regarding the authors, etc.). This software plat-form will allow you to quickly and easily build your own stacks of interactive and multimedia material and share them with others.

All poster presenter will receive an invitation from Kubify with the topic ‘Invitation email from Learning Toolbox – for ICTCT 2024’ for registration. This invitation also contains information on how to create your own account in Kubify (the Learning Toolbox platform) and how to start creating your e-poster/stack. If you have not received the e-mail, please check first your junk or spam folders, as sometimes the e-mail might end up there. More information you find under Access Features and Privacy to the ePoster tool Kubify

You can refer to the support page if you have any questions. Most likely you will find an answer to your question there.

Your e-poster will receive sufficient time and audience at the networking table with face-to-face contact with an interested audience and other researchers presenting relevant studies to the same theme. We believe this new approach will allow you to go into more details with those who are genuinely interested in your e-poster and the specific research theme

Please note:

The organisation team will provide all e-poster presenters onsite with high tables in the conference room for the entire duration of the poster sessions. Every e-poster presenter needs to bring her/his own laptop. There will be no possibility to print the abstracts on site.

Poster pitch

Prior to the poster session start, you will have an opportunity to engage the visitors with one-slide pitch (max two minutes per presenter). Please, use the suggested template (download here) and DO NOT change the timer settings.

Please send your one-slide pitch before the conference to matus.sucha@upol.cz. To save time during the speaker changes, all slides will be combined in one file by the conference team. Just in case, bring your slide on a USB stick, too, and get in contact with the chair person before the session and make sure that everything works well.

Poster design

Your poster has to be made in English. Use ICTCT poster template (here), which also contains useful tips and links to further reading on how to best design a poster that attracts attention.

Poster stands and fixing materials will be provided. Please, note that printing, delivering and setting up the poster before the session, as well as removing it at the end of the session, is entirely your responsibility. No local printing services will be arranged.

Poster presentation

Make sure to be near your poster during the entire poster session. You get more of it if you actively engage in discussions with the visitors.

It could be a good idea to have some give-away materials with you, for example contact cards, small prints of the poster (A4-size), full-text paper or additional visuals in your iPad. Having a notebook and a pen for making notes or elaborating while answering a question is also a good idea.

Access Features and Privacy to the ePoster tool Kubify

Every author presenting an E-poster must register for the ICTCT here 37th ICTCT Conference 2025.
All poster presenter who have accepted an ePoster presentation will receive in August 2025 an invitation from Kubify with the topic ‘Invitation email from Learning Toolbox – for ICTCT 2025’ for registration. This invitation also contains information on how to create your own account in Kubify (the Learning Toolbox platform) and how to start creating your e-poster/stack.

If you have not received the e-mail, please check first your junk or spam folders, as sometimes the e-mail might end up there.
In August the host of the ICTCT will send also an email with further instructions for all presenter (oral and poster presenter). Poster presenters in particular will receive further detailed information about the Kubify tool. As host of ICTCT 2025, we will forward the contact details of the poster presenters (email addresses) to Kubify.

Please note:

Each e-poster will be made available via a protected platform Kubify. As the author, you decide whether your poster remains publicly visible after the event or is only accessible during the conference.

All data is processed in accordance with the applicable EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Further information can be found also in the FAQ Page – Learning Toolbox Support and in the platform’s detailed Kubify – Privacy Policy 20250418

Data processing

The Kubify platform is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website/ tool are stored on the servers of the host Kubify. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract information, contact information The host of the ePoster platform Kubify will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data. As host of the ICTCT 2025 we have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with the provider Kubify BV., Netherlands (EU) More information about Data Protection you will here.

Instructions for oral presentation

For the oral presentation we ask you to prepare a max of 12-minute presentation. This will be followed by a 2-3 minutes of Q&A. The exact day and time of your presentation can be found in the detailed conference programme. Note, there will be parallel sessions for the oral presentations. The room in which your presentation takes place will be indicated at the venue.

You can download the ICTCT presentation template here. You may use other templates, for example created by your organization. The 16:9 aspect ratio is to be preferred.

You can already submit your presentation here (link will be provided later). Be sure to upload it two days before the conference

Be present at least 10 minutes before your session starts and get in contact with the chairperson to make sure that your slides are ready and work well.

It is a tradition of the ICTCT conferences to reserve sufficient time for questions and discussion after each oral presentation. Therefore please limit your presentation to 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for the discussion.

You can download the ICTCT presentation template here. You may use other templates, for example created by your organization. The 16:9 aspect ratio is to be preferred.

Please bring your presentation on a USB stick to the session. Be present at least ten minutes before your session starts and get in contact with the chairperson to make sure that your slides are ready and work well.

For the oral presentation we ask you to prepare a max of 12-minute presentation. This will be followed by a 2-3 minutes of Q&A. The exact day and time of your presentation can be found in the detailed conference programme. There will be parallel sessions for the oral presentations. The room in which your presentation takes place will be indicated at the venue.

You can download the ICTCT presentation template here. You may use other templates, for example created by your organization. The 16:9 aspect ratio is to be preferred.

You can already submit your presentation here. Be sure to upload it before the start of the conference, and preferably one week before.

Be present at least 15 minutes before your session starts and get in contact with the chairperson to make sure that your slides are ready and work well.

Instructions for chairpersons for oral sessions

Before the conference

  • Well in advance, have a look at the abstracts of your sessions (uploaded on the conference web page under Programme).
  • Ask the presenters of your session for a short bio (two–three sentences) so that you can introduce them. Contact emails will be provided by the organizers.

Before your session

  • Be present at the podium at least ten minutes before your session starts. Make sure that all speakers are present and their slides are uploaded on the computer.
  • Encourage the presenters to test the equipment—slides, pointer, microphone, etc.
  • Make sure to receive the presenters’ certificates from the organizers.

During the session

  • In the beginning, introduce yourself.
  • Before each talk, introduce the speaker (using the short bio) and the title of the presentation.
  • Each presenter will have 12 minutes speech time followed by 3 minutes of discussion (15 minutes in total). It is your responsibility to keep an eye on the timing. Warn the presenter 3 minutes before the end of the speech time. Be ruthless and cut off when 15 minutes are used up.
  • Be prepared to ask at least one question yourself in case of awkward silence and no questions from the audience.
  • After the presentation, thank the presenter and hand over the certificate.

Instructions for chairpersons for e-poster sessions

  • Make sure you are familiar with all the topics of the e-posters that are being presented.
  • Introduce yourself briefly as the chair of the poster session.
  • Be available to answer organisational (and possibly technical) questions about the posters, and help people to find specific posters.

Publications

ISSN: 2004-3082

The conference participants may submit full papers describing the work they presented through a special submission track of the Traffic Safety Research journal.

Traffic Safety Research (TSR) is an academic-led, international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, Fair Open Access scientific journal. It was founded in 2021 with a clear objective to contribute to the global transition toward the Safe System approach in road transportation.

All submissions will be subject to the journal’s standard peer review process, handled by the regular editorial team as well as invited guest editors from the German Aerospace Center, DLR (the conference host).

Submission period:
1 October 2025–31 January 2026

Publication fees: Traffic Safety Research applies a production fee of SEK 5800 (currency convertor) for accepted manuscripts. The fee is kept intentionally low and is directly based on the upfront cost to prepare an ‘average’ TSR article for publication (no profit intended).

Authors affiliated with TSR sponsor organisations are normally covered by a special agreements exempting them from paying the production fee. For example, the ICTCT can cover up to ten publications by its members—‘first come, first served’ applies.

Travel

Getting to Berlin

By air

Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) is the international airport of Berlin. 

Getting to and from airport

The airport BER has an own railway station below Terminal 1 on sublevel U2Here, you can take the Airport Express FEX, regional or suburban trains (S-Bahn) which run several times an hour and take you directly to Berlin Central Station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof). It’s a short walk from there to the VKU-Forum. Alternatively, you can take tram M5, M8, M10 or Bus 142, Bus 147, get off after a single stop at Invalidenpark.

To travel from the airport (BER) to the city centre and vice versa, you need a Berlin ABC ticket (single trip EUR 4.70). Tickets are available at ticket machines, ticket counters, or by app. All tickets need to be purchased before the journey. You cannot by tickets on the trains.

Regional trains – the journey takes approximately 35 minutes from the airport BER to Berlin Central Station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof). Mostly recommended and most convenient is the Airport Express (FEX) which runs daily from 3am until 1am, every 30 minutes, only 3 stops!

S-Bahn Berlin (suburban train) – Line S9, direction S Spandau Bhf, runs every 20 minutes at tracks 5/6 directly to Berlin Central Station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof). The journey takes approximately 50 minutes.  

Here, you can find more information about Berlin travelling connections and public transport.

By train

Environmentally friendly, fast and comfortable train connections connect Berlin to almost all major cities in Europe. Your destination is Berlin Central Station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof). From there it is just 550 meters to the VKU-Forum. A walk or just one stop (Invalidenpark) by bus or tram will take you there within minutes.

By car

We recommend to use public transport in Berlin. Alternatively, you can use your car or various car-sharing services. The city is well connected to six motorways from all parts of Germany leading to Berlin. The motorway Berliner Ring (A10) provides good access to the city centre. If you are travelling by car, please note: Downtown Berlin is an environmental zone. This means you need to get your vehicle an environmental zone sticker indicating its emissions rating. Parking spaces are available in a few car parks (10 minutes’ walk to VKU-Forum).

Public transport

You can plan your trip using the online service 9292.nl.

The conference venue is the Pier in Scheveningen (GoogleMaps link). To get there by public transport, you can take tram 9 at the Hague central station. Exit at the stop Kurhaus.

Accommodation

There are many hotels close by – see hotel list.

Practical information

Visa requirements

The visa requirements vary depending on the traveler’s country of origin. Please have a look on the  Federal Foreign Office’s website which visa requirements for your country apply.

Other

Time: Central European Summer time (CEST) is applied from 30 March to 26 October 2025 (UTC + 2). On 26 October time will switch to Central European Time (CET, UTC+1).

Language: The official language of Germany is German, but do not hesitate to talk to younger people in English. Many of them are quite familiar with basic English.

Climate: Usually, the October weather in Berlin is relatively dry and it gets cooler. You can expect average daily temperatures of about 10°C (50°F) with highs reaching up to 15°C (about 59°F) and night temperatures down to 6° (around 43°F). There is an average chance of rainfall of 40 percent.

Electric current: In Germany Type F electrical plugs are used. The standard voltage is 230V at 50Hz.

Currency: The currency in Germany is the Euro. There are many banks and agencies for currency exchange and withdrawals at the airport and at larger train stations. Maestro Debit Cards and most common credit cards (Visa, Mastercard) can usually be used, but some smaller retail shops and diners might only accept cash payments. 

Electronic payments: In addition to cash, you can pay for your purchases using the most common credit cards.

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Contact

ICTCT Local organiser
Contact person
Niels Agerholm
Peter Wagner
Marek Junghans
Ragna Hoffmann
Affiliation
ICTCT Secretariat
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Transportation Systems
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