Conference Special Theme
The conference special theme focuses on advancing the safety of all road users with special attention for vulnerable road users. Especially, in the upcoming era of advanced technologies and vehicle automation new safety challenges have emerged. The road infrastructure design plays a critical role in accommodating these challenges.
Conference Topics
The theme of RSS2017 is “advancing the safety of all road users”.
The topics include (but are not limited to):
- Vulnerable road users’ safety
- Automated vehicles and safety
- Virtual environments and augmented reality
- Roadway design Research and projects
- Emerging technologies
- Surrogate measures of safety
- Human factors and behavioural models
- Safety modelling
- Crash causality
- Naturalistic studies
- Hazard perception
- Big data for safety analysis
- Stress and fatigue
- Microsimulation for safety and operations’ evaluation
- Bicycles and pedestrians’ simulators
- Distraction and Inattention
- Driving simulation for the evaluation of the fitness to drive
- Driving simulation for driver education and training
