Data and methods for evidence-based safety measures and applications
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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About
Important dates
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31 March 2025 |
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16 June 2025 |
Notification of acceptance |
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1 September 2025 |
Early Bird fee expiration |
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2 October 2025 |
Registration closed |
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21-22 October 2025 |
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23–24 October 2025 |
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25 October 2025 |
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3 November 2025– 7 April 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.
Registration
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, 90% of the registration cost will be refunded (including conference registration, social event). 50% of the registration cost will be refunded if a written cancellation is received between 1 September – 2 October. 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 | |
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ICTCT member |
EUR 460 |
EUR 420 |
EUR 270 |
EUR 200 |
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Non-member |
EUR 620 |
EUR 500 |
EUR 310 |
EUR 220 |
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Student |
EUR 250 |
EUR 200 |
EUR 120 |
EUR 80 |
The Early Bird fees apply during 16 June-1 September 2025. After that all fees will increase significantly.
Full fees
| Category A | Category B | Category C | Category D | |
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ICTCT member |
EUR 590 |
EUR 520 |
EUR 340
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EUR 250 |
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Non-member |
EUR 750 |
EUR 600 |
EUR 370 |
EUR 270 |
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Student |
EUR 300 |
EUR 250 |
EUR 150 |
EUR 90 |
Full fees apply during 2 September–2 October 2025.
On-site fees
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ICTCT member |
USD 240 |
USD 100 |
USD 60
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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.
Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Chile, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Hong Kong SAR (China), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea (Rep.), Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao SAR (China), Malta, Monaco, Nauru, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, 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, American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji, Gabon, Georgia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Namibia, North Macedonia, Palau, Paraguay, Peru, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu
Angola, Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo (Rep.), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt (Arab Rep.), El Salvador, Eswatini, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Rep.), Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (PDR), Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Micronesia (Fed. Sts.), Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Dem. Rep), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Korea (Dem. People’s Rep.), Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Uganda, Yemen (Rep.), Zambia
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 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 above).
Please, write clearly how many people will join you at which activity in ‘Comments to organizers’.
Registration and payment form
The payments are done using the most common credit card types (Visa, MaterCard, etc.). The process is handled by the event management service Dryfta, none of your credit card details is viewed or stored by the ICTCT.
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:
- 360 degree panoramic photos
- 360 degree video (German only)
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
10:00–12:30
Welcome reception
The Welcome reception takes place…
Thursday, 23 October 2025
10:00–12:30
Welcome
10:00–12:30
Keynote speech I
‘Understanding emerging traffic risks to powered two wheelers and pedestrians in low- and middle-income countries: challenges and opportunities of new data sources’
Geetam Tiwari
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
India
Geetam Tiwari is Professor Emeritus at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre (TRIP), the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has held various positions at IIT Delhi since 1990s, including being the Head of TRIP Centre in 2021–2023.
Geetam’s research includes traffic and transport planning, and traffic safety focusing on pedestrians, bicycles, and bus systems and highway safety. She has worked with city, state and national governments in India on public transport and road safety projects.
Geetam is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion since 2009. She has been guest professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2007–2010). She is a board member of IATSS forum, LEAD India and DIMTS.
Over her long career, Geetam Tiwari received many national and international awards.
12:30–13:30
Lunch and mingling 🍲
10:00–12:30
Oral sessions
1A ‘Road safety in low- and middle-income countries’
Chair: Geetam Tiwari
Fatigue among bus drivers in Ghana and Norway: Examining the influence of working conditions and national road safety culture
Jenny Blom
Lars Even Egner
Enoch F. Sam
Tor-Olav Nævestad
Anthony Fiangor
1B ‘Micromobility safety’
Chair: Geetam Tiwari
Friday, 24 October 2025
10:00–12:30
Social event
We invite you for a walking tour around the historical city centre of Delft.
Delft is famous for its historical connections with the Dutch royal family, blue pottery, the painter Jan Vermeer, and, not the least, the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).
During this walk, our guides will tell you about the history of the historic city center and some of its famous former residents. We will dwell, among others, on the origins of the city, the House of Orange, the Old and New Church (outside), Hugo Grotius, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer. A second historical walk will lead you through the eastern and northern part of the city including the Oostpoort, the Paardenmarkt and some courtyards (almshouses).
Saturday, 25 October 2025
10:00–12:30
General assembly
Presentation
Publications
Call
Important note
Abstract submission is handled by the local host’s (DLR) website (link).
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
- 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.
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.
Submission
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.
Sponsors
Contact
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Contact person |
Niels Agerholm |
Peter Wagner Marek Junghans Ragna Hoffmann |
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Affiliation |
ICTCT Secretariat |
German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Transportation Systems |
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