Traffic Safety Researcher’s Course is usually given in connection to ICTCT conferences. The mission of the course is to provide a coherent view into traditional and modern traffic safety theories, methods and solutions. It also stresses the importance of the institutional framework necessary for consequent long-term traffic safety work.
The next course is organised on 6–7 June 2023 in connection to the XII (extra) ICTCT conference in Winneba, Ghana.
More information will come in due time.
Upcoming course
About the course
When?
6–7 June 2023, in connection to the XII (extra) ICTCT conference.
Where?
Winneba, Ghana
University of Education, Winneba
North campus, Student Center
Course fee
The course fee is €100.
The special fee for Ghanaian participants is GH₵700.
The fee includes tea/coffee-breaks and simple lunches. The participants will receive access to the presentation materials after the course.
The fee DOES NOT include registration to the ICTCT conference.
Course language
The course is given in English.
Registration & payment
Registration form
We have reached the maximum amount of course participants. New registrations are not possible anymore.
Participants who registered but not paid yet can still use the links below to complete their payments.
Course fee
The regular course fee is €100.
The payment can be done using a PayPal account or a credit card (Visa, MasterCard, etc.). The transactions are handled entirely by the PayPal service, and ICTCT will not have access to any sensitive information of yours.
In case PayPal is not a viable option for your country, a direct bank transfer could be made to the account specified below.
The special fee for Ghanaian participants is GH₵700.
This fee should be paid by a bank transfer to the following account:
Account number: 4011405999
Account holder: Enoch Frederick Sam
Bank: Zenith Bank Ghana Limited
Bank address: Zenith Heights, No. 31 Independence Avenue, PO Box CT 393, Accra
Swift code: ZEBLGHAC
All costs related to the money transfer MUST be covered by the participant. Note that persons paying for conference or course fees via the swift bank transfer should send the swift or transfer advice issued by their bank to the email address: efsam@uew.edu.gh.
Syllabus
Motivation
The road accident phenomenon is complex and so are road safety management systems. As a consequence, road safety research is multi-disciplinary and covers such areas as epidemiology, statistics, in-depth accident analyses, biomechanics, behavioural studies, sociology, economics, etc. Researchers new in the field of road safety are usually limited to a specific field of investigation in which they work in-depth without getting the broader picture of what is being done in road safety research and how the different investigation fields complement each other.
The mission with the course is to give the participant a coherent view into traditional and modern traffic safety theory, methods and solutions and to have a clear understanding of the importance of the institutional framework in order to be able to make a difference in the traffic safety work subsequently. It is hoped that at the end of the course, participants will be able to situate their own work within a broader framework, and will find it easier to communicate with researchers from other disciplines.
Course objectives
- Provide researchers with an overview of theories and concepts in road safety and the associated research approaches and methods, in line with ICTCT goals and fundamentals
- Discuss key issues in road safety research
- Provide in-depth knowledge of research approaches and findings on some selected topics and their implications for other fields of road safety
- Provide an opportunity for exchange of experience between researchers from different disciplines and different parts of the world
Target audience
Road safety researchers from all disciplines, in all sectors (Public Health, Transport, Urban Planning, Education, Law, Academia, etc.) and from all countries are welcome.
In order to facilitate interactions, the number of participants is limited to 15.
PhD students may be able to get credits for this course at their home university and should ask for information from their supervisors.
International faculty
The course faculty consists of senior researchers and university professors with an extensive experience in road safety.
Attila Borsos
University of Gyor
Hungary
James Damsere-Derry
CSIR-Building & Road Research Institute
Ghana
James Damsere-Derry is Senior Research Officer at CSIR-Building & Road Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana. He holds a B.A. in Geography and Sociology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington, USA, and Ph.D. in Road Safety Research from the Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety-Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Dr. Damsere-Derry’s main research fields in road safety are speeding, drink/drug-driving and social and psychosocial determinants of road traffic injuries. He has published over 20 scientific articles and has contributed to scientific conferences. He is a member of the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, the International Epidemiological Association as well as the Road Traffic Injuries Research Network.
Stijn Daniels
Transport & Mobility Leuven
KU Leuven
Belgium
Stijn Daniels, the president of ICTCT, is a researcher and consultant in transport planning, road safety and mobility at Transport & Mobility Leuven (TML), Belgium. He is also a part-time professor in Traffic and Transport Safety at KU Leuven, faculty of Engineering.
His primary research interest is road safety: causes and mechanisms associated with road crashes and near-crash events, effects of road design on crash occurrence, safety issues for vulnerable road users, effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis and economic valuation.
Wafa Elias
Shamoon College of Engineering
Israel
Wafa Elias works in the fields of travel behavior and road safety, with particular expertise in factors that impact travel behavior and road safety among the Israeli Arab minority.
Wafa Elias has developed a theoretical framework that connects daily activity patterns and driving behavior, and the risk of being involved in road crashes. To better understand these complex relationships, Wafa focuses on disaggregate studies of individual characteristics, attitudes, activity and travel behavior, residential location, the build environment, social interaction, and the impact of these on road safety.
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.
Sonja Forward
Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Sweden
Dr Sonja Forward is a psychologist and a research leader at the Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) focusing on traffic safety and sustainable transport. Her research covers many areas but mainly psychological factors predicting behaviour and how unwanted behaviour can be changed, using education or campaigns. The methods used are both quantitative and qualitative.
Sonja Forward has been in charge of numerous projects both nationally and internationally. She has produced written materials including an extensive manual for working with campaigns. She is also lecturing on a regular basis and have presented papers at numerous conferences, mostly as an invited speaker.
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Lund University
Sweden
Aliaksei Laureshyn is Reader in traffic safety and a senior lecturer at Lund University, Sweden. His primary research interests deal with theory and practical use of pro-active methods in road safety analysis. He is an active member in several international committees and working groups related to the subject of Surrogate Measures of Safety (SMoS). Other research interests include emerging technologies for data collection in traffic, policy and practice in road safety work, particularly in the view of Vision Zero/Safe System paradigm.
Enoch F. Sam
University of Education, Winneba
Ghana
Enoch F. Sam is an Associate Professor of Transport Geography at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. He has over ten years of experience in teaching and research in public transport safety management, traffic safety, traffic behaviour of vulnerable road users, and sustainable urban mobility. He has published over 20 scientific articles, five book chapters, and a book and has contributed to scientific conferences. Prof Sam has won many research and academic awards and grants. He is currently an Executive Board member and Lead country researcher of the European Commission funded-project AfroSAFE. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; Editorial Board member of the Transactions on Transport Sciences (TOTS) and the African Journal of Social Sciences Education.
András Várhelyi
Lund University
Sweden
András Várhelyi is Professor of Transport at the Lund University, Sweden. His main research fields are Road safety, Road safety measures, ITS and Driver Assistance Systems and evaluation of their effects. His teaching activities comprise supervising PhD and MSc theses, as well as training transport professionals in Road Safety Management and Road Safety Engineering internationally. He is the author of scientific articles (N~30), conference papers (N~60) research reports (N~70) and popular scientific articles. He is member of the ICTCT since 1990s and one of the founders of the The Nordic Traffic Safety Academy (currently one of the ICTCT’s sub-committees).
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.
Anja Huemer
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Germany
Anja Huemer is a professor for traffic psychology at Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany (starting from September 2022). She received her PhD on the measurement of driver distraction in 2012 from Technische Universität Braunschweig. Her main research interests are the safety and comfort of vulnerable road users and the promotion of sustainable transport by system design. She has been teaching research and presentation methods for more than 15 years.
Csaba Koren
University of Gyor
Hungary
Csaba Koren received his master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology in Hungary in 1972. He earned his PhD from the same university in 1978. He has been working with the Transport Research Institute in Budapest until 1977, when he moved to the University of Gyor. His teaching activity focused on road design, traffic engineering and urban sustainability. He has been a head of the Department of Transport Infrastructure for about 20 years.
Csaba Koren is a member of several international editorial boards. He has been a supervisor of seven successful PhD candidates. His main research interest is road safety. He regularly organizes road safety auditor courses and follow-up trainings. In 2018 he retired, but he is still active in teaching, research, and consultancy.
Rob Methorst
Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic an Environment [retired] / Streets for People
the Netherlands
Rob Methorst has more than 40 years of professional experience in tackling road safety and promoting pedestrian interests. He graduated as a Social Geographer—Land Use Planner. Since his retirement in 2015, he has been a guest researcher for pedestrian safety at Institute for Road Safety Research SWOV, where he worked on his thesis on pedestrian policy (promotion February 2021). He is the secretary of MENSenSTRAAT, and was chairman and initiator of the European project COST358 Pedestrians’ Quality Needs (2005–2010), chairman of the CROW Design Guides for Pedestrians. Rob has previously done research and policy advice on vulnerable road users, and pedestrians in particular, for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (1999–2015), the former Pedestrian Association (1990–1999) and the Regional Road Safety Board in Drenthe (1981–1990). In doing so, he mainly focused on the possibilities of aligning (strategic) policy with human needs, and skills and possibilities of human behaviour.
Matúš Šucha
Palacky University in Olomouc
Czech Republic
Matúš Šucha is a Czech traffic psychologist. His main area of professional interest is traffic psychology, with a specific focus on mobility, sustainability and active traffic modes. Associate Professor Šucha is an active member of numerous prestigious international organisations, including ICTCT—International Cooperation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety, TPI—Traffic Psychology International or DGVP—Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verkehrspsychologie.
Ralf Risser
Palacky University in Olomouc
Czech Republic
Course programme
6 June 2023
Road safety problems and collection of data
András Várhelyi
Lund University, Sweden
’The state of road safety in Ghana’
Enoch Sam
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
’Sources and harmonization of road traffic crash data’
James Damsere-Derry
CSIR-Building & Road Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana
’Surrogate measures of safety and behavioral observation studies’
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Lund University, Sweden
Quite often, researchers cannot rely on historical accident counts due to their scarcity, poor quality (due to under-reporting or errors in coding) or simply due to absence of any history (in case of newly built sites). In such situations, alternative methods for measuring safety performance are called for. In this lecture we will discuss how traffic conflict and behavioural observations can be used as a complement—or a supplement—for accident data. A significant part of the lecture will be devoted to watching and discussing the actual traffic videos, what safety relevant information could be extracted from them and how it should be interpreted and generalized.
7 June 2023
Traffic safety measures and policies
‘Introduction to contributing factors to accidents, theory of countermeasures, human factors’
Attila Borsos
University of Gyor, Hungary
‘How does infrastructure influence road safety behavior?’
Haneen Farah
Delft University of Technology, the Netherland
‘How do (information) campaigns influence road safety behavior?’
Sonja Forward
Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Sweden
‘How does enforcement influence road safety behavior?’
Wafa Elias
Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel
Wafa’s lecture will give an overview of deterrence theories. She will highlight the effectiveness of the various penalties by examining the impact of demographic and socio-economic characteristics on the effectiveness of the various penalties. We will try together to show who the traffic offenders are, and which factors contribute to the involvement and repetitiveness of offenses.
‘Safe System in traffic safety’
Stijn Daniels
Transport & Mobility Leuven | KU Leuven, Belgium
In this session we will introduce the principles of a Safe System approach to road safety. Such an approach looks at safety as an integral part of the wider road traffic system. We will discuss in the group to what extent this approach differs from other approaches and what consequences this could have on current road safety policies.
Course programme
25 October 2022
9.00
Introduction: course & faculty
Introduction, participants: wants & needs
Wafa Elias
SCE, College of Engineering, Israel
Road safety policy and data
9.40
’Safe System in traffic safety’
Stijn Daniels
Transport & Mobility Leuven | KU Leuven, Belgium
11.00
Coffee break
11.20
’Traffic accident data and how to work with it’
Rune Elvik
Institute of Transport Economics, Norway
12.40
Lunch
13.10
’Surrogate Measures of Safety’
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Lund University, Sweden
14.30
Coffee break
14.50
’Tools for infrastructure safety assessment’
Csaba Koren
University of Gyor, Hungary
16.10
Break
16.20
Discussion 1: ’Road safety data—what questions can be answered and what is missing’
17.20
End of the day
26 October 2022
9.00
Mid-course recapitulation
Wafa Elias
SCE, College of Engineering, Israel
Traffic safety from different perspectives
9.10
’Accounting for human factors in road system design’
Attila Borsos
University of Gyor, Hungary
10.30
Coffee break
10.50
‘Traffic psychology: a holistic perspective’
Matúš Šucha
Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
12.10
Lunch
12.50
Discussion 2: ’Human- or car-centered traffic system?’
13.50
Break
Research that makes a difference
14.00
’How to make improvements happen: connecting research to policy making’
Rob Methorst
Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic an Environment [retired] / Streets for People, the Netherlands
15.20
Coffee break
15.40
’Presentation skills to make impact’
Anja Huemer
Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Lund University, Sweden
17.00
Closing & evaluation
Wafa Elias
SCE, College of Engineering, Israel
17.20
End of the day
Contact
| Course contents | Registration & payments |
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Wafa Elias Anja Katharina Huemer |
Clemens Kaufmann |
