Human Centred Design for Safery Critical Transport Systems

September 8th 2014
ISG / Business & Economics School
Lisbon, Portugal

DECOMOBIL is a European project under FP7 which started on 1st October 2011 and will end on 30 September 2014 (http://decomobil.humanist-vce.eu/)

DECOMOBIL is a support action with the objective to contribute to the preparation of future community research program me in user-centred design for eco-multimodal mobility. The general concept of the DECOMOBIL project has been to take advantage of the structured network of research set up in the HUMANIST Network of Excellence and followed up in the HUMANIST Virtual Centre of Excellence, in order to develop knowledge in the area of human centred design of ICT for sustainable transport and to widely disseminate results of these activities towards relevant stakeholders at European and international level.

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The roads in the EU are getting safer -- from around 76 000 road deaths per year in 1991 to 26 000 deaths reported in 2013. This is the result of hard work by many actors on local, national and EU level. The EU road safety work focuses on seven objectives for the period 2011-2020: Better education of road users, better enforcement of traffic rules, safer roads, safer vehicles, better use of modern technologies, reducing the number of serious road traffic injuries and improving the safety of vulnerable road users. The EU road safety work is a great success story. Yet, the work is still far from done. Every death is one too many. This video was launched on the occasion of the sixth European Road Safety Day, organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Greek EU Presidency in Athens on 9th May 2014. The European Road Safety Day is a yearly event that brings together road safety experts, NGOs, policy makers and the industry to find common solutions to European road safety problems.

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The Forum of the European Road safety Research Institutes (FERSI)
The European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI)
The European Transport Research Alliance (ETRA)
The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP)
The Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL)
The Human Centred Design for Information Society Technologies Network (HUMANIST)

invite to the European Interdisciplinary Conference “Ageing and Safe Mobility”.

The Conference will focus on road safety issues of elderly road users. The convention will aim at elaborating policy recommendations concerning implementation of available evidence based results in the domain of the road safety research.

Participants are invited to participate in three conference sections:
      1.    Human Factors
Organised by FERSI and ECTRI. Key Speaker Prof. Georg Rudinger (University of Bonn)
      2.    Infrastructure
Organised by FEHRL. Key Speaker Prof. Francesca la Torre (University of Florence)
      3.    Vehicles engineering
Organised by EuroNCAP and HUMANIST. Key Speaker Prof. Claes Tingvall (Swedish Transport Administration)

Conference Date and Location

The two-days Conference will be held at the German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) in Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany, on 27-28.11.2014.

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