Event

Welcome to a SAFER seminar "An Empirical Analysis to Assess the Operational Design Domain of Lane Assistant System Equipped Vehicles" with Haneen Farah!

Lower levels of automation are designed to work in specific conditions referred to as the Operational Design Domain (ODD). Beyond these conditions, the human driver is expected to take control. A mismatch between a driver’s understanding and expectations of the automated vehicle capabilities and its actual capabilities, could affect their safety and trust in automation.
In this seminar Dr Haneen Farah will present two studies on the performance of Lane Assistance Systems based on field tests. In the first study we developed a method for assessing the ODD of a Lane Keeping System equipped vehicle. The analysis method is composed of an objective driving risk measure based on the Probabilistic Driving Risk Field (PDRF), and a subjective risk measure based on driver behavior, trust and situation awareness. In the second study we used the Systems Theoretic Accident Modelling and Processes (STAMP) model to understand the nature of interactions, and the resulting risks, between elements of the road infrastructure, the Lane Assistance Systems, and the road authority. This resulted in an extensive overview of specific safety requirements. To operationalize these requirements, we have conducted a pilot field test with Lane Keeping System equipped vehicle and Lane Departure Warning System equipped vehicle covering about 500 kilometers of provincial roads. The collected data was analyzed to evaluate the performance of both systems in terms of lines detection and lane position performance. Marco Dozza, Chalmers, is hosting the seminar and the project MICA is supporting.

Please register to the event on the link below prior to December 10, 2019.

About Dr. Haneen Farah
Dr. ir. Haneen Farah is an assistant professor in the Department of Transport and Planning and co-director of the Traffic and Transportation Safety Lab . Her research interests include studying the implications of road infrastructure design on road user behavior and traffic safety. In her research she combines her expertise in transportation engineering, with her curiosity in the fields of human factors and econometrics to study these connections. Before joining TU Delft she was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology