Aachener Straßenbau- und Verkehrstage 22nd November 2019 Anna-Lena Köhler presented the project at the Aachener Straßenbau- und Verkehrstage in Aachen. The talk concerned the InfraDriver Nudge and the general approach of the project, the results of the simulator studies and the current direct application in the field tests. About 180 practitioners and researchers, as well as people from the municipality, police and organizations who are in charge of the streets…

5th Symposium on Driving Simulation 21th November 2019 Anna-Lena Köhler from ika held a presentation called “Application of the Driving Simulator User Studies”, made by herself, Arne Düselder, Martin Henne & Stefan Ladwig. The talk concerned the simulator study of the InfraDriver nudge, inlucing the user studies made to assure that it really works. The ongoing field trial, where an actual implementation was built, was also touched upon. Around 35 researchers…

International Cycling Safety Conference 2019 18th November 2019 – 20th November 2019 MeBeSafe presented two papers at the International Cycling Safety Confererence 2019 in Brisbane, Australia. The first paper was called “Safety effects of lane marking nudge at a bicycle intersection” and was presented by Matin Nabavi Niaki from SWOV and concerned lane markings to merge cyclists smoother in intersections. The second paper was called “Haptic nudges to influence cyclist…

MeBeSafe at World Usability Day Torini 2019 14th of November 2019 A talk titled Measures for Behaving Safety in Traffic – Nudging HMI was presented on the 14th of November at the annual World Usability Day Torino 2019 (#wudtorino2019) by Antonella Toffetti, Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF). Toffetti presented recent experiments run in collaboration with TNO regarding the In-Vehicle Nudge. The results, the positive impact of the MeBeSafe nudging HMI on…

Presentation of cyclist nudging 11th June 2019 Results from the cyclist nudging studies were presented by Victor Bergh Alvergren and Pontus Wallgren from Chalmers, to the Swedish Vision Zero-group.  The group was really interested and found nudging a promising way forward in traffic safety. <- Back to Events section

ITS Conference in Eindhoven, 3-6th June 2019 3rd – 6th of June 2019 A paper titled Nudging Drivers Towards Higher Safety Margins – Applications of the H2020-project MeBESafe  was presented at the ITS Conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands on June 6th 2019. The paper was co-written by Anna-Lena Köherl, Olaf Op den Camp, Milous van Mierlo, Stefan Ladwig and Maximilian Schwalm. It was presented by Anna-Lena Köhler. <- Back to Events section

MeBeSafe at a SAFER fair 11th April 2019 Huge crowds of people interested in road safety came to talk to MeBeSafe at a SAFER fair in Gothenburg. SAFER, the vehicle road safety centre at Chalmers, celebrated ten years by showing off their greatest projects. MeBeSafe had a booth showing off the results from the Gothenburg cycling studies, and people were constantly talking to the researchers Pontus Wallgren and Victor Bergh…

Nudging cyclists – presentation 19th February 2019 A lunch seminar at SAFER was held on the cyclist nudging in Gothenburg. Victor Bergh Alvergren and Pontus Wallgren from Chalmers/SAFER presented the results to around 50 people interested in road safety. <- Back to Events section

Elementor #1820 25th October 2018 – 22th October 2018 Anna-Lena Köhler, Dr. Stefan Ladwig, Prof. Dr. Maximilian Schwalm from IKA at RWTH Aachen University participated in the conference in Reims, France, presenting their paper “Slowing down speeders via dynamic infrastructure nudging measures”. You can read more about the event here. <- Back to Events section

27th Aachen Colloquium Automobile and Engine Technology 2018, Germany 8th October 2018 – 10th October A paper titled Nudging the attention of drivers towards possibly hazardous situations will be presented at 27th Aachen Colloquium Automobile and Engine Technology 2018 on October 8th – 10th, 2018 in Aachen, Germany by Dr. Olaf Op den Camp, Ir. Jeroen Uittenbogaard, TNO – Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research & Prof. Dr. Phil. Maximilian Schwalm, Institute for Automotive…

37th FISITA World Automotive Congress 2nd October 2018 – 5th October 2018 Dr. Olaf Op den Camp, Ir. Jeroen Uittenbogaard from TNO and Dr. Bram Bakker from Cygnify was in Chenai, India, to present their paper “Nudging drivers to engage safe behaviour in traffic”. You can read more about the event and download the abstract here. <- Back to Events section

TMHF Tylösand seminar on traffic safety, 2018 4th September, 2018 Professor MariAnne Karlsson from Chalmers University of Technology/SAFER gave a talk about nudging, cycling and traffic safety at the Tylösand safety seminarium in Sweden. The seminarium is arranged by the Swedish Teetotal Motorist Association, and covers both drunk driving and modern technology. See a video from the presentation here, the slides here and an article from Swedish media about the event…