NTSA Research Course 2023
Safe System in future mobility scenarios: the importance of a multidisciplinary approach
23-26 May 2023
Aalborg, Denmark
Local organizers: Tanja Madsen, Giulio Bianchi Piccinini
The seminar is held in close co-operation with Traffic Research Group at Aalborg University.
Event hashtags #ictct #ntsa #ntsa2023aalborg
Programme
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
16:00–18:00
Welcome reception and course introduction
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
8:30
Vision Zero—a paradigm shift
Lars Ekman
Swedish Transport Administration
Sweden
Dr. Lars Ekman has a background as researcher at Lund University, Sweden. His research focused on traffic safety evaluation applied on pedestrians and bicyclists at Lund University. Lars Ekman has also for a long time been involved in international collaborations in the field of traffic safety both on a European with CEDR and global arena. At present, he works as an expert in traffic safety at the Swedish Transport Administration with special emphasis on traffic safety countermeasures.
Lars Ekman popular speaker on the topic of The Vision Zero, often in connection to the Vision Zero Academy.
10:15
Coffee break
10:30
Mixed traffic and the role of infrastructure in future mobility scenarios
Haneen Farah
Delft University of Technology
the Netherland
Dr. ir. Haneen Farah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transport and Planning and a co-director of the Traffic and Transportation Safety Lab at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research interests lie in the fields of road infrastructure design, road user behaviour, and traffic safety. She is currently investigating the implications of the advances in vehicle technology and automation on these fields. In her research she combines her expertise in transportation engineering, with her curiosity in the fields of human factors and econometrics.
Before joining TU Delft Haneen Farah was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology.
12:15
Lunch
13:15
Participant presentations
Assessment of roadside conditions using Safe Systems approach
Matilda Magnusson
Lund University
Sweden
Zhankun Chen
Lund University
Sweden
14:15
Coffee break
14:30
Participant presentations
Impact of automated vehicles on human drivers’ behavior
Masoud Soljoqi
University of Padova
Italy
Development of a physics-based bicycle/cyclist tracking algorithm for safety analyses
Kevin Gildea
Lund University
Sweden
16:30–18:30
Network building activity
Aalborg city centre
Thursday, 25 May 2023
8:30
Low-level theory for interpretation of road safety evaluations
Rune Elvik
Institute of Transport Economics
Norway
Rune Elvik has been a road safety researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics since 1980. His main areas of research have been evaluation studies, meta-analysis and cost-benefit analysis.
Rune Elvik served as editor-in-chief (together with Karl Kim) of Accident Analysis and Prevention from 2005 to 2013. He has participated in many European projects and contributed to the Highway Safety Manual. He has published more than 150 papers in scientific journals.
10:15
Coffee break
10:30
Human interactions with CAVs: implications for safety of future cities
Natasha Merat
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Professor Natasha Merat is an experimental psychologist and research group leader of the Human Factors and Safety Group at the Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds University, United Kingdom, and leader of the Automation theme. Her main research interests are in understanding the interaction of road users with new technologies. She applies this interest to studying factors such as driver distraction and driver impairment, and she is an internationally recognised expert in studying the human factors implications of highly automated vehicles. She is currently involved in six UK and European Projects on automated vehicles.
