Conference Programme

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RSS2017 Programme 16th-19th October 2017

Monday 16th

08:30 – 10:30

Registration desk open

Workshops & Technical Tours

17:00 – 19:00

Welcome reception

Tuesday 17th

08:00 – 09:30

Registration desk open

Posters & Exhibitions

09:00 - 09:30

Welcome

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote: Anna Nilsson-Ehle

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 1: Automated vehicles & transitions of control

Session 2: Hazard Perception

Session 3: Innovative methods for safety modelling

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30

Poster session

14:30 – 15:30

Session 4: Attitudes and behaviour

Session 5: Emerging Technologies

Session 6: Studying driver behaviour using simulators

Session 7: Vulnerable road users & surrogate safety measures

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:20

Session 8: Human driver modelling

Session 9: Weather conditions & accidents

Session 10: Evaluation of vulnerable road user infrastructure

Session 11: Vulnerable road users & safety

Wednesday 18th

08:00 – 09:00

Registration desk open

Posters & Exhibitions

09:00 – 10:30

Session 12: Automated vehicles & vulnerable road users

Session 13: Naturalistic driving studies & road design characteristics

Session 14: Macroscopic safety prediction modelling

Session 15: Speed choice behaviour

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Keynote: Pieter Litjens

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Poster session

14:00 – 15:20

Roundtable Session: Make Traffic Safety a National Priority

Session 16: Automated driving & driving complexity

Session 17: Road barriers & safety

Session 18: Interactions of vulnerable road users with other traffic

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee break

15:50 – 17:10

Session 19: Accident studies & vulnerable road users

Session 20: Distraction & fatigue

Session 21: Geometric design & road safety

Session 22: Roadway design modelling

Gala Dinner 19:00 – 22:00

Thursday 19th

08:00 – 09:00

Registration desk open

Posters & Exhibitions

09:00 – 10:30

Session 23: Real-life observations of road user behaviour

Session 24: Road design assessment using driving simulation 1

Session 25: Virtual environments & augmented reality

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Keynote: Linda Boyle

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Poster session

14:00 – 15:20

Session 26: Human driver performance

Session 27: Road design assessment using driving simulation 2

Session 28: Identification of high risk locations

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee break

15:50 – 17:10

Session 29: Automated and connected vehicles & surrogate safety measures

Session 30: Intersection assessment using microsimulation

Session 31: Driving simulators for education and fitness to drive