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Safer active mobility through right choices in traffic infrastructure development

The SAFER associated pre-study SINTIA (Safe inclusive traffic infrastructure: data and AI for decision making) takes the first step in building an empirically and scientifically supported methodology for decision making in the area of traffic infrastructure development.

The Henry Wallman Award 2023 is awarded to SAFER associated Associate Professor Stefan Candefjord

The Henry Wallman Award 2023 is awarded to Associate Professor Stefan Candefjord in the research group Care@Distance at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers. With Digital Health as a tool, Stefan works with a long-term perspective to develop and improve prehospital healthcare - from detection of incident to completed prehospital mission. Special focus is on traffic incidents, trauma care

Strong scientific contribution from SAFER partners in ESV

In the coming week, it is once again time for one of the world's largest road safety conferences, and many of SAFER’s partners are contributing with research findings on how to improve road safety.

Call for Presentations to the Scandinavian Conference on Systems and Software Safety 2023

You are invited to propose presentations and workshops to the conference!

March Newsletter is out!

Welcome to explore more about the upcoming collaboration opportunities at SAFER in our March Newsletter.

Three new explorative projects funded through SAFER’s pre-study program

SAFER’s pre-study program continues to deliver interesting ideas for live saving traffic safety research. Rural cycling, safety of emergency vehicles and identification of risky scenarios by using deep learning method will be in focus in the three pre-studies, funded in the first call for 2023.

Arriver – a new SAFER partner will contribute to a safer transport system

SAFER is growing even more! At today’s SAFER partner meeting another new partner, who will contribute to our endeavor that everyone should be able to travel safely in the mobility system, has been welcomed to the partnership. Arriver is a software brand, focusing on active safety and perception systems for vehicles, with developing the real-world standard in safe mobility, building

The effects and outcome of the SAFER Partnership 2022 published

2022 was a very positive year for SAFER; all-time high in the number of projects in the portfolio, concluded knowledge building activities and academic publications! SAFER's annual report for the seventeenth operational year has now been launched. The report is a summary of the effects and outcome of the traffic safety research carried out at the center between January 1st

Prospective safety assessment framework in the making in new SAFER associated project

In order to set policies for road safety in the coming decades and push for Vision Zero, an accepted and reliable method for the comparison of safety measures for connected, cooperative and automated mobility is needed. Following the Safe System approach, the V4SAFETY method will deal with the safety of all road users, from vulnerable road users to vehicle occupants.

Risk estimations in the transition period to full automated driving investigated in new SAFER associated project

The SUperSAFE project aims to fully understand how the interaction between connected and automated vehicles and conventional road users works, to explain it and relate this to the digital and physical road infrastructure.

A new SAFER doctor: Fredrick Ekman!

“ User trust here and now but not necessarily there and then - A Design Perspective on Appropriate Trust in Automated Vehicles ", is the title of Fredrick Ekman's doctoral thesis, that he successfully defended today! Fredrick Ekman has been a doctoral student at the Department of Industrial and Materials Science Division Design & Human Factors, Chalmers University of Technology

Congratulations Alexander Rasch – a new SAFER doctor

Alexander Rasch, PhD student in the Crash Analysis and Prevention group at Chalmers University, today successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Drivers overtaking cyclists and pedestrians: Modeling road-user behavior for traffic safety".

SHAPE-IT – a new associated project to enable rapid and reliable development of safe and user-centred automated vehicles for urban environments

SHAPE-IT is a four-year project where 15 PhD-students are performing research that enables rapid and reliable development of safe and user-centred automated vehicles for urban environments.

Newsletter for February is OUT!

Busy winter times in the research platform – we are happy to share our latest research and upcoming collaboration activities with you. Einride is a new SAFER partner, two SAFER doctors are approaching their defences and the agenda to our annual SAFER partner day is set. Don’t miss the opportunities to get to know about the latest findings in how to create a safe and sustainable transport system!

Terrible results in crash test with moped cars and A-tractors

The films from crash tests including moped cars and A-tractors provide shocking and clear information: without a safety belt, the outcome of the crash can be extremely bad!

Einride – our new partner, will contribute with new perspectives on the development of autonomous vehicles

SAFER is growing and we welcome Einride as an associated partner to the community! Einride is developing electric vehicles that are autonomous and built for SAE level 4 autonomy. At level 4, autonomous vehicle systems are fully responsible for all driving and navigational tasks. It is a unique vehicle and solution, and the safety case is at the core of

Our first issue of our monthly newsletter for 2023 is out for reading!

Catch up with the latest news about SAFER’s project portfolio and upcoming opportunities for research collaboration!

First call for SAFER Pre-studies in 2023 now open

Welcome with your ideas for traffic safety research in our open call!

Welcome to SAFER in 2023!

Welcome back to a new year of collaboration in traffic safety research – the final of our current stage, SAFER Stage 5! Hope you all had a nice and relaxing holiday. We would like to share some of the most important priority areas for SAFER in 2023:

SAFER Thursday lunch seminars during spring 2023 - the schedule is set!

The schedule for our SAFER Thursday lunch seminars during spring 2023 is now set. The appreciated hybrid concept continues, and we look forward to seeing our partners here at the SAFER, including at the networking lunch, and of course also online for those of you can’t make it to the office.

AI based in-vehicle systems for safer traffic in harsh weather conditions

Another project born out of the project creation workshop series as SAFER hosted in 2021, with the mission to create strong application to the Horizon Europe framework program, has startup; ROADVIEW – Robust Automated Driving in Extreme Weather.

Merry Christmas!

Another SAFER year is coming to an end, and we would like to thank everyone involved, as partners or through our ecosystem, for the great engagement, project results, all valuable knowledge created, new ideas and the strong commitment to road safety research

The SAFER Human Body Model is going global to save more lives in traffic

With the overall purpose to make the SAFER HBM an efficient, robust and attractive tool, ready for being open available, this project encompasses the activities to quality check, document and develop proof-points to demonstrate its capabilities. These activities are structured in the following sub-tasks:

How should driver assistance systems be designed to be used more frequently?

In the new associated project, Enhanced ADAS II, the researchers will investigate how driver assistance systems should be designed to make them even more attractive and user-friendly, so that the rate of use increases.

Congratulations SAFER doctor Vivekendra Singh

Vivekendra Singh successfully defended his doctoral thesis, today December 16! The thesis is entitled "3-D rate dependent micromechanical model for polymer composites".

Prediction of human intention in focus in two new pre-studies

Being able to predict human behavior or ability in traffic may lead to positive traffic safety advantages. By knowing a road user’s next step, a warning to an approaching danger can be alerted or, in a vehicle, a safety system can be activated. Within the framework of the AI Enhanced Mobility program, in which SAFER is leading the traffic safety focus group, two new pre-studies will start up shortly to build knowledge in this field.

Congratulations I Putu Alit Putra – our new SAFER Doctor!

Putra, Ph.D student at the Injury Prevention Group, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Division of Vehicle Safety at Chalmers University successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Occupant Neck Muscle Modelling in Rear-End Crashes", today, and we have yet another SAFER doctor in the community.

A SAFER doctor has graduated: Daniel Åsljung

"On Statistical Methods for Safety Validation of Automated Vehicles" is the title of Daniel’s doctoral thesis, a work that is of interest for many SAFER partners. He successfully defended his thesis today at Chalmers University and is now a “SAFER doctor”.

AfroSAFE— Safe System for radical improvement of road safety in low- and middle-income African countries

How can we jointly contribute to increasing knowledge about road safety, in all parts of the world? That is what our researchers want to contribute to in our new project AfroSAFE Safe System for radical improvement of road safety in low- and middle-income African countries.

Valuable knowledge sharing at the Scandinavian Conference on System and Software Safety

For the second time, SAFER has been co-hosting the Scandinavian Conference on System and Software Safety (SCSSS) together with KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology and Addalot. More than 100 experts from almost 30 different companies and organisations gathered at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg for two days in November to take part in the conference and learn about the

SAFER’s senior research advisor Ingrid Skogsmo – the new president of ECTRI

We are proud to share that our senior research advisor Ingrid Skogsmo is president-elect of the ECTRI organization for the two coming years. She will follow the chairmanship of Evangelos Bekiaris from the Hellenic Institute of Transport. The election was held during ECTRI’s General Assembly which met in conjunction with the Transport Research Arena (TRA) in Lisbon.

Linda Pipkorn, a new SAFER Doctor!

Linda Pipkorn successfully defended her doctoral thesis "The driver response process in assisted and automated driving" today!

Our Newsletter for November is now out

Take the opportunity to learn about our latest projects Sunrise and Fame along with the calendar for upcoming activities within the SAFER Partnership! We plan for a SAFER Day to Autoliv and Veoneer later on this month and we have also several interesting seminars that may be of interest. Welcome to take a look! http://mailchi.mp/chalmers.se/november-2022

Funding secured for further knowledge creation in Connected and Cooperative Automated Mobility

As a result of SAFER's long and successful work with data collection and analysis to ensure a safe introduction of automated and connected vehicles, we have been granted the opportunity to continue this work through a new project funded within the Horizon European framework program, as part of CCAM partnership work programme 2021.

A Safety Assurance Framework for testing and safety validation will be developed in SUNRISE

SUNRISE is a new project in SAFER’s portfolio, whose full name is Safety assUraNce fRamework for connected, automated mobIlity SystEms, aiming to pave the way for safe large-scale deployment of automated vehicles on European public roads. The scope of the project is to define, implement and demonstrate the building blocks of safety assurance technologies and systems. It also aims at defining a harmonised approach to enable the massive deployment of highly automated vehicles.

Three new SAFER pre-studies approved to support the common research agenda

SAFER's pre-study program continues to generate good ideas and inspiring studies. Since the program began in April 2019, no less than 41 ideas have been submitted, and 25 projects have been granted. In the last call for 2022, three new projects got funding.

The next International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention will take place in the US in 2024

We are happy to announce that the ninth edition of the International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI) will take place in at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the US, October 22-24, 2024.

The world's elite in driver distraction research gathered in Gothenburg at the DDI conference

Over 160 delegates from 23 countries attended the 8th edition of the International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI2222) held in Gothenburg, October 19-20, 2022. The co-organisers SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers, the Université Gustave Eiffel and the University of New South Wales, are very pleased with the outcome.

Best student award to Dan Boguslavsky at DDI2022

Best student Award to Dan Boguslavsky, Ben Gurion University Of The Negev, for the best combined presentation and research.

Newsletter for October is OUT!

Welcome to explore a short summary of the main highlight from the SAFER Partnership in October! SAFER News October 2022 (mailchi.mp)

Safe introduction of automation in the society by introduction of a supportive safety culture

The aim of this new project, funded by Vinnova, is to explore existing practice and knowledge of safety culture, and to identify methods to support safe introduction of automation.

New project will study possibilities for innovative user centric E-kickscooters

SAFER’s knowledge building in road user behavior continues - now through our recently associated project DREEM - Designing useR centric E-kickscooters & business models for Enhancing interModality.

Three students nominated to the Best Student Award at the International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention

We are happy to announce that we have three students nominated to the Best Student Award, handed out at the International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention, coming to Lindholmen Science Park, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 19-20! Join the conference and learn more from them, and many others!

Congratulations Emma Nilsson – a new SAFER Doctor

Emma Nilsson, Volvo Cars and affiliated to Vehicle Safety at Chalmers University successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Effects of cognitive tasks on car drivers’ behaviors and physiological responses”, September 30.

World leading experts in child safety met for fruitful multidisciplinary discussions

How can we jointly contribute to more children traveling safer in cars? What do the latest findings say regarding child occupant protection? This is a very important issue for SAFER's research agenda and we recently conducted a successful seminar to spread knowledge and discuss our common challenges.

The Collaborator of the year at Lindholmen: Fredrik Sandblom, competence network leader at SAFER

The jury's nomination: Fredrik is an expert collaborator! He is a network leader focusing on how to make autonomous vehicles safe, an important step in the transition to a sustainable future. In this work he knows how to engage the right people and bring them together to think, talk and deliver. He makes other people grow and generously shares all his knowledge.

Jordanka Kovaceva – our most recent SAFER Doctor!

Jordanka successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Methods and models for safety benefit assessment of advance driver assistance systems in Car-to-cyclists conflicts” today and we have a new SAFER doctor in our community.

High SAFER exposure at this year’s edition of IRCOBI

Many SAFER-affiliated researchers were present at this year's IRCOBI, and we had good opportunities to make our joint research visible and communicated to a broad audience.

Welcome Anna Larsson, SAFER’s new Board member

Anna has a long experience from working with electrical systems, driveline and automation within AB Volvo and have continued within these areas at RISE. Currently, she is the Director of a unit working with research for Batteries and Hydrogen in the transport system, but she is also Focus area Leader within the business area for Mobility focusing on Automation.

Crashworthy and sustainable composite materials will be explored in UTMOST

Circularity of materials is an important measure in our transition towards a sustainable society. For the transport system, this can mean new kinds of vehicle body structures, like material from renewable sources. In turn, this can mean new challenges in the construction so that crash safety, if an accident should occur, continues to be protective for the occupants. Simulation tools are very helpful in this development and in our associated project UTMOST (Modelling of biocomposites in occupant safety analyses), this is in the research agenda.