Summer School

Analysis and Modelling Road User Behaviour

4 – 9 September 2022
The summer school aims to provide with the human factors theoretical foundations for the analysis and modelling of road-user behaviour, within the context of road safety and development of driving automation systems.

Keywords: active safety systems, automated driving, crash causation, human behaviour, naturalistic driving data, safety assessment, vulnerable road users

APPLICATION CLOSED
Location

Gothenburg, Sweden

Participants
Application is open to Master and PhD Students of the member universities from the IDEA League Alliance.
Expenses
There are no registration and accommodation fees. Students from IDEA League member universities selected to participate in a summer school only have to pay for their own travel costs where applicable.
Requirements

Curriculum vitae & publications list
Letter of motivation
Letter of recommendation (optional)
Supervisor approval (for PhD students from Chalmers)

Road crashes are a global concern: The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 1.3 million road fatalities occur worldwide every year and road crashes are currently the leading cause of death for people aged 5-29 years. In Europe, although road fatalities have significantly decreased during the period 2009-2019, a less evident reduction has been shown between 2013 and 2019. The current situation calls for more research investigating road-user behavior, to support the design of active safety systems and driving automation systems and for the creation of driver’s training and coaching procedures. With the aim to enhance knowledge on the topic, this course aims to meet the following learning outcomes:

  • Explain the importance of analyzing and modelling road-user behavior, for improving road safety.
  • Illustrate different types of human factors theoretical driver models.
  • Compute relevant quantitative and qualitative metrics, to analyze and model road-user behavior.
  • Identify the challenges in the analysis of real-traffic data from naturalistic studies.
  • Compare the currently available tools for the virtual evaluation of active safety systems.

Programme

Sunday 4th September Monday 5th September Tuesday 6th September Wednesday 7th September Thursday 8th September Friday 9th September

8:00-9:00

Lecture 1: Introduction to road-user behavior and road crash prevention

Lecture 3: Quantitative and qualitative measures of road-user behavior

Lecture 5: Modelling road user behaviour

Lecture 7: Assessment of safety benefits associated to the introduction of active safety systems
9:00-10:00

Lecture 1: Introduction to road-user behavior and road crash prevention

Lecture 3: Quantitative and qualitative measures of road-user behavior

Lecture 4: Naturalistic data for analysis, modelling, and assessment of road-user behavior

Lecture 5: Modelling road user behaviour

Lecture 7: Assessment of safety benefits associated to the introduction of active safety systems
10:00-11:00

Lecture 2: Theoretical framework for modelling road-user behavior

Exercise 1: Quantitative analysis of driving simulator data

Lecture 4: Naturalistic data for analysis, modelling, and assessment of road-user behavior

Lecture 6: Sensors for active safety systems

Guest lecture 2: TBD
11:00-12:00

Lecture 2: Theoretical framework for modelling road-user behavior

Exercise 1: Quantitative analysis of driving simulator data

Lecture 4: Naturalistic data for analysis, modelling, and assessment of road-user behavior

Lecture 6: Sensors for active safety systems

Guest lecture 2: TBD
12:00-13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
13:00-14:00

Network building activity 1: Introduce yourself and your own work

Guest lecture 1: TBD

Exercise 2: Analysis of Naturalistic data

Network building activity 3: Group work session 2

Network building activity 4: present group work + Final closure
14:00-15:00

Network building activity 1: Introduce yourself and your own work

Guest lecture 1: TBD

Exercise 2: Analysis of Naturalistic data

Network building activity 3: Group work session 2

Network building activity 4: present group work + Final closure
15:00-16:00

Study visit 1: VTI driving simulator or Asta Zero

Study visit 2: Showcase of instrumented vehicles in the lab

Network building activity 2: Group work session 1

Network building activity 3: Group work session 2
16:00-17:00

Welcome reception and presentation of summer school

Study visit 1: VTI driving simulator or Asta Zero

Study visit 2: Showcase of instrumented vehicles in the lab

Network building activity 2: Group work session 1

Network building activity 3: Group work session 2
17:00-18:00 Welcome reception and presentation of summer school

Social dinner
18:00-19:00

Social dinner
19:00-20:00

Social dinner

The times in the schedule refer to the Central European Summer Time (CEST).