15–16 October 2024
Delft, the Netherlands
Local hosts: Haneen Farah, Marjan Hagenzieker, Nicole Fontein
The course is organized in connection to the 36th ICTCT conference.
Teachers
The course faculty consists of senior researchers and university professors with an extensive experience in road safety.
Stijn Daniels
Transport & Mobility Leuven
KU Leuven
Belgium
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.
Haneen Farah
Delft University of Technology
the Netherlands
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.
Marjan Hagenzieker
Delft University of Technology
the Netherlands
Marjan Hagenzieker is full professor Traffic Safety in the Department of Transport and Planning and co-director of the Traffic and Transportation Lab at Delft University of Technology since 2014. Her research and education focus on the road safety impact of the transport system, with a particular interest in road user behaviour. She graduated in experimental psychology and received her PhD on the effects of rewards on road user behaviour, both at Leiden University. Marjan’s research interests are road user interactions with road infrastructure, in-vehicle technology and automated vehicles; distraction in traffic, and the safety of vulnerable road users (e.g. older road users, cyclists).
Anja Katharina Huemer
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Germany
Anja Katharina Huemer is a professor for traffic psychology at Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany. 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 promoting sustainable mobility by system design.
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Lund University
Sweden
Aliaksei Laureshyn is an associate professor in traffic safety at Lund University, Sweden. His core competence is within theory and practical application of proactive (non-accident based) methods in safety analysis. Other research interests cover emerging technologies for data collection in traffic, safety of vulnerable road users, and policy and practice within traffic safety management, both in mature contexts, and in low- and middle-income countries.
Aliaksei is a passionate educator about the Safe System approach to traffic safety, giving lectures and full-scale courses on this subject at different arenas and in different countries incl. Sweden, China, India, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, the United States, etc.
Since 2021, Aliaksei acts as the editor-in-chief of the Traffic Safety Research journal (2004-3082). In this role, he promotes the values of the research being relevant, and scientific communication effective and understandable.
Ralf Risser
Palacky University in Olomouc
Czech Republic
Ralf Risser is an Austrian traffic psychologist. His main areas of professional interest are psychological aspects of mobility, sustainability and active traffic modes. At this time Visiting professor at Palacky University in Olomouc, Department of Psychology, Ralf Risser is a member of International Cooperation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety (former ICTCT President, now Honorary member) and TPI (Traffic Psychology International).
Johan Vos
Delft University of Technology
the Netherlands
Johan Vos is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Transport and Planning at the Delft University of Technology, working in the Traffic and Transportation Safety Lab. His research focuses on applied studies in geometric road design, with an emphasis on human factors. In addition to his academic role, Johan works for Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch Department of Transportation, where he edits the national geometric design guidelines for motorways and leads the road design knowledge field. His PhD dissertation explored the cues drivers use to begin slowing down when approaching a motorway curve, and this work is now being integrated into the design guidelines.
Programme
15 October 2024
Road safety problems and collection of data
9:00–9:30
‘Introduction: course & faculty & participants’
9:30–10:15
‘Shaping traffic safety policies: a role game’
Anja Katharina Huemer
The purpose of the role game is to provide practical insights into the complexity of the decision-making process within traffic safety domain. The game serves also as an icebreaker to facilitate more informal communication among the course participants and with the teachers.
10:15–10:30
Coffe-break
10:30–11:30
‘Safe System in traffic safety’
Stijn Daniels
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.
11:30–12:30
Lunch
12:30–13:30
‘How to measure road traffic safety?’
Aliaksei Laureshyn
13:30–14:30
‘Surrogate measures of safety and behavioral observation studies’
Aliaksei Laureshyn
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.
14:30–15:00
Coffee-break
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.
15:00–16:00
‘How will automated vehicles affect road users’ behaviour and traffic safety?’
Haneen Farah
Marjan Hagenzieker
In this lecture we will dive into future scenarios where automated vehicles might interact with different road users (e.g., human drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists) and discuss together potential implications. Will human road users interact differently than when interacting with human driven vehicles? Do current automated vehicles (e.g., Waymo vehicles) behave in traffic similarly to how humans behave? And what are the needs of vulnerable road users when interacting with automated vehicles? Join us in this lecture to find out answers to these questions.
16:00
End of the day recap
16 October 2024
Road user behavior and traffic safety measures
9:15–9:30
Reflections from Day 1
9:30–10:30
‘Traffic psychology: a holistic perspective’
Ralf Risser
This lecture is an introduction to the human factors part of the course. We will discuss the role of road users in the traffic system in a holistic way and try to find the answer to the question ‘Why do people act in traffic the way they do?‘. Not least, questions dealing with human behavior, sustainability, and mobility will be tackled.
10:30–10:45
Coffee-break
10:45–11:45
‘Motivation and behavior of road users’
Anja Katharina Huemer
In this lecture, we will talk about the fundamentals of behavior in road traffic. Perception, motivation, and activation regulation models will be presented to explain choices, performance, and unsafe behaviors in traffic.
11:45–13:00
Lunch
13:00–14:00
‘Accounting for human factors in road system design’
Johan Vos
An interactive lecture on the relationship between human factors and road design. The lecture will touch upon various human factors (e.g. workload, perception, recognition), safe system approaches (Swedish Vision Zero, Swiss Cheese model), as well as theories on driving task, task performance and information processing.
14:00–15:00
‘Presentation skills for making impact’
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Majority of scientific presentations are utterly dull, sending the audience directly to sleep. The results that took months to produce go unnoticed, the important messages never reach to the right people. Sounds wrong, right?
In this talk we will cover the absolute fundamentals of making an engaging presentation. Who is your audience and how your research is relevant for them? What is the key message you want them to remember? How to deliver it so that people want to ask you for more details and read your full paper?
And, no, it is not about PowerPoint fancy functions.
15:00
Evaluation and closing
