Publications

Navigating the challenges of remote operations of automated road vehicles: A socio-technical perspective

The advent of automated driving systems introduces a paradigm shift with the possibility to revolutionize transportation systems on our roads. Benefits of improved safety, and operational efficiency is foreseen by actors in the business and the hopes of

Simulating Pelvis Kinematics from Belt and Seat Loading in Frontal Car Crash Scenarios: Important Boundary Conditions that Influence the Outcome

Purpose

The risk of submarining during automotive crashes, defined by the lap belt sliding off the pelvis to load the abdomen, is predicted to increase in future autonomous vehicles as greater variation in seating position is enabled. Biofidelic tools are

Podcasts: The CAV Chronicles Episode #1 | Applus+ IDIADA presents SYNERGIES, a new era for automated mobility

Welcome to The CAV Chronicles: Exploring the scenario-based validation for safer mobility.

This series dives into the transformative realm of Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM), guided by leading experts shaping the future of transport

Evaluation of comfort zone boundary based automated emergencybraking algorithms for car-to-powered-two-wheeler crashes inChina

Crashes between cars and powered two-wheelers (PTWs: motorcycles, scooters, and e-bikes) are a safety concern; as a result, developing car safety systems that protect PTWriders is essential. While the pre-crash protection system automated emergency braking

Report 2024:06 Development of the SAFER HBM v11

Validation of the SAFER HBM in Rear-Facing Upright and Reclined Position in High-Speed Frontal Impacts

Most Human Body Model (HBM) validation studies have focused on either forward-facing frontal or side impact load cases. In this study, a Finite Element (FE) model of a test setup previously used for rear-facing Post Mortem Human Subjects (PMHS) in high

Developing Lumbar Spine Fracture Injury Risk Functions for Frontal Impact Anthropomorphic Test Devices using Paired Human Body Model Simulations

 Thoracolumbar fractures from car crashes have gained importance over the past halfcentury. While fatal injuries have declined due to vehicle structural- and infrastructural improvements, the rate of moderate and more severe thoracolumbar fractures has

Heterogeneity in Car Occupant Safety Using Numerical Simulations to Address Real-world Safety

This thesis ultimately aims to enhance occupant protection by incorporating aspects of real- world crash heterogeneity, often overlooked within current safety assessments. By investigating the effects of crash heterogeneity and broadening the

Final Report - Knowledge transfer from the founders of Vision Zero

It will soon be 30 years since the birth of Vision Zero and road safety became something everybody working with traffic and urban planning is expected to have knowledge of. A generational change is now taking place where the founders of Vision Zero are

Final Report - REMOSAFE

Despite advancements in automated driving technology, human supervision remains essential in the transport system. Remote operation can support monitoring, assisting, and driving (semi-) automated vehicles from a distance when necessary. However, passive

Final report - Collision matrix for heavy goods vehicles worldwide

By increasing the knowledge regarding fatalities per road users in collision with others, stakeholders in general and industry in particular here can address specific countermeasures. The objective is to describe the nature of the work to identify road

Final Report - Mapping of accident databases worldwide

The present explorative project made a contribution for all SAFER partners by updating the list of accident database available by at least one SAFER partner. An updated excel file with all global accident databases that SAFER partners have access to is

Final Report - Risky Scenario Identification

This study aimed to determine whether perceived risk, as rated by a large group of human participants, could be predicted from basic features extracted using computer vision. To achieve this, we developed a framework for estimating perceived traffic risk

Final Report_Human Factors, Risks and Optimal Performance in Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility

The effect of the interaction between Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) in scenarios where the ratio of conventional and intelligent vehicles is a topic of interest for researchers and the industry. There is an expected effect on road

Nationell Trafiksäkerhetskonferens - en förstudie

SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers has conducted a pre-study to explore the need, opportunities, and conditions for organizing a national traffic safety conference in Sweden. The project background stems from a potential need for a renewed

Final Report - Safety performances of instrumented micro-mobility modes by leveraging microscopic driving behavior data

Shared micro-mobility services offer a sustainable alternative to cars for short trips and as feeders to public transport in cities. However, in several areas, there are concerns with the safety performance of the users of such services. This results in

Framtagning av verktyg för trafiksäkerhetsförbättrande arbete

FinalReport_CyclingRuralRoads

Even though cycling is slowly starting to get recognised as the sustainable mode of transport it is, this is mostly limited to short trips in urban areas. However, also in rural environments the bicycle has potential to replace the car for many trips. Best

THE SAFER HBM – A HUMAN BODY MODEL FOR SEAMLESS INTEGRATED OCCUPANT ANALYSIS FOR ALL ROAD USERS

The development of the SAFER human body model (HBM) started in 2008 and is still ongoing. SAFER HBM is an omni-directional model that can be tuned and scaled (morphed) to correspond to humans of different age, sex, weight, and stature. The model can be

Influence of an Individualised Shoulder Belt Position for Diverse Occupant Anthropometries on Seatbelt Interaction in Frontal and Side Impacts

This simulation study investigated the influence of individualised shoulder belt position on seatbelt interaction and occupant kinematics in two frontal and one far side impact, considering the variability of occupant anthropometry and sitting postures

Final Report: Safe Micromobiolity

This pre-study was intended to prepare for the project MicroSafety (www.microsafety.eu), an unusual research project where the project leader cycled on an instrumented bike across five European countries to collect naturalistic data for traffic safety

Final Report EVA

Emergency vehicles face risks when interacting with surrounding traffic. To support civilian drivers’ move over-behavior they can be provided with an Emergency Vehicle Approaching (EVA) warning. An EVA warning is an in-car warning that lets the driver know

Final Report DRIV

Final Report

The Think Tank, an interdisciplinary working group operating within SAFER, has convened for a little over a year. Its mission is to delve into the potential of utilizing a road safety footprint as a conceptual framework for enhancing road safety.

This

Final Report: DISC SAFER Pre-study

Final Report: Think Tank Traffic Safety Footprint

THE CREATION AND APPLICATION OF HARMONIZED PRE-CRASH SCENARIOS FROM GLOBAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DATA

The development and test of future Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD) AD functions requires sophisticated data from pre-crash scenarios. As real-world traffic provides an infinite variety of scenarios and vehicles are

DARTER - Final Report

Verification and validation (V&V) of Intelligent Transport Solutions and their components in real traffic is difficult (costs, passers-by, etc.) and running tests under all possible conditions (weather, traffic, etc.) is impossible. For these reasons

Slutrapport TRV 2021/115451

Projektet har syftat till att undersöka möjligheten att använda trafiksäkerhetskrav och systematisk uppföljning av dessa som en del i upphandlingen av godstransporter, med syftet att förbättra trafiksäkerheten på vägarna. Dagens upphandlingar, där

Final Pre-Study Report SYNCOPE

Sudden sickness in drivers is a common cause of fatal crashes and accounts for about 10% of road traffic fatalities in Sweden. The risk could be mitigated with a driver monitor system capable of detecting critical medical conditions. Vehicle integrated and

Hövding data for risk assessment - Final Report

The pre-study has investigated how Hövding data can be made available in RoDL. Since
the project coincided with a process around business model for data at the company
has no model for general data sharing could be developed, but the data used in the
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Final Report - Göteborgs Green City Zone

Final Report

The purpose of this project was to build a prototype of a new type of bicycle simulator. It consists of a versatile construction with potential for many functions, based on bike rollers. The goal was to keep a realistic bicycling experience.

Elderly motor vehicle drivers in traffic accidents

Road traffic injuries are an increasing public health problem with large costs for society. Currently, there is insufficient compiled data with regard to traffic accidents related to older drivers, and there is a lack of research in the area. The aim of

The Face Airbag: A Novel Concept for Facial Impact Protection

Relevant safety countermeasure was presented at IRCOBI conference 2022.

Towards an assessment of safety and security interplay in automated driving systems

We are currently in the midst of significant changes in the road transport system, including the transformation to fossil-free propulsion and the shift to higher levels of automation. The next level in automation is soon upon us and is encompassed by the

Effects of cognitive tasks on car drivers’ behaviors and physiological responses

The effects of drivers’ engagement in cognitive tasks (i.e., non-visual, cognitively loading activities unrelated to the task of driving) are debated and unclear. Numerous experiments show impaired driver behaviors, yet naturalistic studies typically do

Macroscale Modelling of 3D-Woven Composites: Inelasticity, Progressive Damage and Final Failure

Composites with 3D-woven reinforcement have been slowly making their way into different industrial applications. The interlacement of yarns, not only in-plane but also through-thickness, means that in many applications 3D-woven composites can outperform

A Holistic Safety Benefit Assessment Framework for Heavy Goods Vehicles

In 2019, more than one million crashes occurred on European roads, resulting in almost 23,000 traffic fatalities. Although heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) were only involved in 4.4% of these crashes, their proportion in crashes with fatal outcomes was almost

The driver response process in assisted and automated driving

Background: Safe assisted and automated driving can be achieved through a detailed understanding of the driver response process (the timing and quality of driver actions and visual behavior) triggered by an event such as a take-over request or a safety

Occupant Neck Muscle Modelling in Rear-End Crashes

The ultimate goal of the present research is to incorporate active and passive neck muscle effects in a female Finite Element (FE) Human Body Model (HBM). The application of interest is Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD), which can occur in a low-speed

On Statistical Methods for Safety Validation of Automated Vehicles

Automated vehicles (AVs) are expected to bring safer and more convenient transport in the future. Consequently, before introducing AVs at scale to the general public, the required levels of safety should be shown with evidence. However, statistical

3-D rate dependent micromechanical model for polymer composites

Fibre reinforced polymeric composites are in high demand in automotive and aviation industries to improve fuel efficiency. However, the dynamic behaviour of composites is not very well understood. Furthermore, dynamic loading together with the anisotropic

Open source code for cycling in the simulator

Developing a Virtual Reality Bicycle Simulator in Unity for Traffic Safety Research Integration

This thesis focuses on the development and utilization of a virtual reality bicycle simulator for the purposes of traffic safety research. The bicycle simulator is developed using a virtual reality head mounted display (HMD) and commercially available

Final Project Report (Swedish)

This project has studied how virtual reality (VR) can be used to study the communication between self-driving vehicles and cyclists from the cyclist's perspective. In the project, a bicycle simulator for implementation into VR has been developed, and an

A data–information–knowledge cycle for modeling driving behavior

When talking about automation, “autonomous vehicles”, often abbreviated as AVs, come to mind. In transitioning from the “driver” mode to the different automation levels, there is an inevitable need for modeling driving behavior. This often happens through

Public Report HAVOC Heavy Vehicle Operation Centre

Detecting Driver Sleepiness Using Consumer Wearable Devices in Manual and Partial Automated Real-Road Driving

Driver sleepiness constitutes a well-known traffic safety risk. With the introduction of automated driving systems, the chance of getting sleepy and even falling asleep at wheel could increase further. Conventional sleepiness detection methods based on

Detecting driver fatigue using heart rate variability: a systematic review

Driver fatigue detection systems have potential to improve road safety by preventing crashes and saving lives. Conventional driver monitoring systems based on driving performance and facial features may be challenged by the application of automated driving