Event

This follow-up workshop takes the next step from SAFER’s resilience and traffic safety day, with the aim of turning identified needs into concrete collaborative project ideas. The session focuses on how traffic safety is affected when normal conditions break down, and how human behaviour, decision-making and human–system interaction change under stress, time pressure and uncertain information.

A key entry point is the emerging traffic safety competence within the Swedish Armed Forces, and how insights from defence and preparedness contexts can help strengthen traffic safety in disrupted conditions more broadly. Together, we will explore and refine preliminary research questions such as:

• How do risk behaviour, attention and compliance change during crisis and high-stress situations?
• How is decision-making affected by uncertainty, conflicting information and time pressure?
• How does interaction evolve between drivers (including professional drivers), traffic management and automated or semi-automated systems in disrupted scenarios?
• How should instructions, warnings, interfaces and communication be designed to remain understandable and effective when cognitive capacity is reduced?
• How can training, exercises and behavioural metrics (e.g., workload, response time, error rates, risk compensation) be used to assess and improve safety performance in crisis scenarios?

The workshop is designed as a focused project-creation session, aiming to sharpen research questions, identify roles and contributions across organisations, and discuss possible funding pathways for moving forward.