SAFER Seminar: Towards the Development of a Fleet Concept of Operations for Managing Automated Driving System-Equipped Trucks in a Mixed Fleet
Dr. Richard Hanowskii, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), will be the opponent during the PhD defense of Ron Schindler on 28th of April (https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/528899). On the day before the PhD defense, he offered to give a seminar to the SAFER community. Giulio Bianchi Piccinini, Crash Analysis and Prevention research unit, Vehicle Safety division, Chalmers University, is hosting the seminar.
Bio
Dr. Richard Hanowskii is a Senior Research Scientist at Virginia Tech and serves as the Director of the Division of Freight, Transit, & Heavy Vehicle Safety at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). Dr. Hanowski has been involved in transportation human factors research since 1991, when he was a graduate student working at the National Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of Idaho. His career has included an internship at General Motors and three years as a Research Scientist at Battelle in Seattle. His experience includes transportation human factors with both heavy & light vehicles, laboratory & field testing, simulation, advanced system development & testing, naturalistic driving, design guideline development, and human performance evaluation. He is skilled in all phases of research, including conceptual framing, research design, data collection/synthesis/analysis, assessment of results, and presentation of findings. Dr. Hanowski has served as the Principal Investigator or Co-PI over $81 million of contract research, resulting in over 300 publications, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and technical reports. His research has impacted national transportation policy, including truck driver fatigue/hours-of-service and driver distraction/texting. He has received several awards for his research including the 2011 SAE International's L. Ray Buckendale Lecture award. Dr. Hanowski received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2000 from Virginia Tech.
Acknowledgments
Ron’s PhD project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the grant agreements No 634149, No 769658 and No 861570 as well as from Volvo Group. We thank the sponsors of the PhD project and SAFER for making this seminar possible.
Connection details
Zoom link: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/64811755904
Registration: You do not have to register, it is just to show up or connect!
Most welcome!
