NTUA within the framework of the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week organized a Scientific Workshop titled “Digitalisation and Road Safety Research” which took place with great success on 17 May 2019 in Athens. This Workshop attempted to shed light into the role and the challenges of digitalisation on road safety, through an intensive flow of state-of-the-art presentations of key NTUA road safety research projects and a vivid Expert Panel discussion on new perspectives and horizons of road safety in the digital era in Europe and worldwide.
Workshop presentations concerned:
The NTUA Road Safety Observatory – Nrso
Driver needs and behaviour in automated traffic – Drive2theFuture
Societal impacts of connected and automated vehicles – Levitate
Smartphone exploitation for event spatial analysis & mapping-Sesame
Data science techniques for driving behaviour evaluation – OSeven
Smartphone applications for driver safety behaviour support – BeSmart
Driver-vehicle-environment interactions and safety tolerance – i-Dreams
The African Road Safety Observatory – SaferAfrica
The road safety center of Saudi Arabia– RscKsa
Measuring risk exposure in Ireland – IrlExpo
Open science in road safety – BeOpen
Big data for road safety – ForSafety
Monitoring road safety culture – SafeCulture
Monitoring road safety attitudes globally – Esra
Cycling under the influence of alcohol and drugs – Velivr
Safety skills of future transportation professionals – Skillful
Actions to improve drivers’ safety behavior – SafeBehave
Economic analysis of road infrastructure safety projects – EibCba
Modelling crash modification factors globally – i-safemodels
Safety implications from electromobility – e-mopoli