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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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
- 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.
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)
Book of abstracts
You can access the book of abstracts here.
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
18:00–22:00
Welcome reception
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.
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
1A ‘Safety applications & measures'
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
Owen Waygood
Towards zero road deaths by 2050? Challenges and gaps in the EU
Stijn Daniels
1B ‘Infrastructure safety, geometry’
Chair: Peter Wagner
Putting cyclists in boxes: an analysis of the bike box
Ruben A. Kuipers
Carmelo D’Agostino
The influence of (bicycle) road design on cyclists’ and car drivers’ perceptions
A. Marie Harkin
Merten Wothge
Hong Ma
Fabian Surges
Analysis of the 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
2A ‘Human factors, pedestrians and drivers'
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
2B ‘Infrastructure safety’
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
3A ‘Infrastructure safety, large-scale analysis'
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
3B ‘Infrastructure safety’
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
Calibrating the Exponential speed-crash model for different speed management and traffic calming measures
M. Kieć
J. Ambros
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
3C ‘Safety simulation’
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
15:15–15:30
Break
15:30–16:30
Poster sessions
4A ‘Human factors, fitness'
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
4B ‘Human factors, prevention’
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-Hack
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
4C ‘Human factors, demographics’
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
16:30–16:45
Break
16:45–17:45
Poster sessions
5A ‘SMoS'
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
5B ‘AI’
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
5C ‘Safety analysis & simulation’
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
19:00–23:00
Gala dinner
The dinner will take place at Restaurant HABEL am Reichstag, Luisenstraße 19, 10117 Berlin. It takes a 15-minutes walk from the conference venue VKU-Forum to the restaurant. Alternatively, take bus 147 (direction S Ostbahnhof via Friedrichstr.) and get off 2 stops later at station Schumannstr. From there, it is a 200m walk. The dinner is included in the conference fee.
Friday, 24 October 2025
8:30–9:00
Registration
9:00–10:15
Poster sessions
6A ‘Safety applications & measures'
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
6B ‘Safety applications, measures and human factors’
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
Analysis of the combined effect of AVs and cycling infrastructure on the gaze behavior of cyclists
Ágoston Pál Sándor
Attila Borsos
6C ‘Safety analysis & human factors’
Chair: Attila Borsos
Enhancing traffic safety with thermal monocular 3D detection: Traffic conflict analysis through a digital shadow
Arnd Pettirsch
Alvaro Garcia-Hernandez
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
7A ‘Safety data processing'
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
7B ‘Safety data processing & SMoS’
Chair: Marek Junghans
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
7C ‘Safety analysis & human factors’
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
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
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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
8A ‘Human Factors, pedestrians'
Chair: Michael Böhm
Promoting Safe and Efficient Pedestrian Interaction with Automated Vehicles: A Naturalistic Data-Driven Study
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
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
Left-turn Gap Acceptance Behavior of Pedestrians under Time Pressure: A Signalised Intersection Study
Apurwa Dhoke
B.R. Aditi
Pushpa Choudhary
8B ‘AI’
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
Potential assessment of future V2X solutions in car-bicycle accidents
Marcus Petzold
Konrad Reisinger
Robert Richter
Thomas Unger
Henrik Liers
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
9A ‘Human Factors'
Chair: Niels Agerholm
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
9B ‘Safety data processing’
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
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 is 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
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
Publications
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 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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