Relauch of the Vision Zero
On September 1st, the Government decided on the document Nystart för Nollvisionen (Relauch of the Vision Zero). Along with this, a decision was taken about three government commissions whose purpose is to improve conditions for road safety work in accordance with the relaunch. The focus is on vulnerable road users and new technologies.
SAFER has worked with and given input to the document, and we recently received a thank you letter from the Minister for Infrastructure Anna Johansson.
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Interactive graphs visualize fatality rate
Road accidents and their far-reaching consequences on humans and society are of great concern to all actors in the road transport system. Globally the number of fatalities/year grows and is currently in the order of 1.3 million.
SAFER has explored an interesting way to look at the road safety development across the globe. In this example, we can view the 13 countries which constitute the ESV Global Focal Points. The data used are publicly available on-line from several global organisations providing data. The graphs were initially created and presented at the ESV conference 2015.
The below graph is an example that illustrates the decrease in fatality rate since 1990. In this graph we show the traffic deaths per billion kilometres driven together with the number of vehicles registered per thousand inhabitants. The size of the bubbles is representing the population. Since this is based on data publicly available and easy accessible on the web, some countries do not have full coverage for all years in the graph.
Another graph visualises the data in a different way: the decrease in traffic deaths per kilometre driven for each year since 1970. The decreasing trends are evident even in this graph.
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SAFER and VTI will host traffic psychology conference
VTI has in cooperation with SAFER been entrusted to organise the seventh edition of the world's largest international conference on traffic psychology, the International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Psychology (ICTTP7). The conference will be held at Lindholmen in August in 2020.
- With SAFER's broad network within road safety and recognized experience in organising successful conferences, we look forward to a high-quality, international conference in Lindholmen in four years, says Anna Nilsson-Ehle, director of SAFER.
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SAFER in media: Fart och korsningar svårt för äldre
(Göteborgs-Posten) Att hålla koll på allt i korsningar är ett problem för många äldre bilförare, visar forskning vid Chalmers. Många har också svårt att hålla rätt fart i vissa situationer. De kör, något oväntat, för fort.
Mer än 200 förare har studerats i två projekt med inriktning på äldre bilister inom Safer, ett center för trafikforskning inom Chalmers.
- Filosofin är att om vi kan hjälpa äldre förare med deras behov, så kan säkert även andra grupper dra nytta av det, säger Thomas Broberg, doktorand på Chalmers och säkerhetsexpert på Volvo Cars.
Studierna presenterades på trafiksäkerhetskonferensen i Tylösand 30-31 augusti.
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Successful workshop on anonymization and feature extraction
SAFER, together with FOT-Net data, organised a second workshop on the FOT data anonymization and feature extraction last week. The workshop was as popular as last year, about 50 people, with a variety of expertise from both local and international participants. Various presenters, including Hannah Rakoff from USDOT, John Lee from Wisconsin, and Jan Erik Solem, CEO of Mapillary in Helsingborg, showed interesting aspects and state-of-the-art for anonymization and feature extraction. During the workshop, active discussions emerged the question; what is actually anonymized enough? The presentations will be available shortly on FOT-Net.eu.
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Safe runners in Lindholmen relay 2016
In the evening of September 7th, the 2016 edition of the relay Lindholmenstafetten took place.
It is a tradition that SAFER participates with at least one team, and this year we had 4 brave runners:
Jonas Östh, Lisa Naess, Jóna Marín Ólafsdóttir and Giulio Bianchi Piccinini.
They did a great race!
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Call for abstracts
- 25th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)
June 5-8, 2017, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Call for Abstracts due August 19 (peer-reviewed) & October 4 (technical papers)
- 10th International Conference on Managing Fatigue
March 20-23, 2017, San Diego, USA
Call for Abstracts due September 30, 2016
- RSS 2017 (Road Safety & Simulation Conference)
October 17-19, 2017 near Delft, the Netherlands
Call for Abstracts due November 1, 2016
- 4th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology Toward zero traffic accidents (FAST-zero '17)
September 18-22, 2017, Nara, Japan
Call for abstracts due November 25, 2016
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SAFER News mixes news from SAFER with upcoming events, and we hope you find it useful and interesting. You are welcome to contribute if you have project results, events or other input - please send ideas to safer@chalmers.se
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