HUMANIST VCE
Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris
HUMANIST President
Aim
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HUMANIST to become THE Center of
Excellence on HMI for ITS in transport,
with emphasis on:
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knowledge and principles transfer from mode to
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the specification, design and evaluation of HMI
for multimodal, intermodal and integrated
transport chains.
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Members
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3 additional members under accession
1 member that has withdrawn
24 members from 16 countries
ISG -ADI-CIGEST - Instituto Superior de Gestão (Portugal)
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CDV - Centrum Dopravniho Vyzkumu v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
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CERTH-HIT - Hellenic Institute of Transport (Greece)
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Cidaut Foundation – Research Institute (Spain)
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CTAG – Automotive Technology Centre (Spain)
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DTU - Danish Transport Research Institute (Denmark)
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ESRI - University of Loughborough (United Kingdom)
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FACTUM - FACTUM Chaloupka & Risser OHG (Austria)
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IFSTTAR - Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports,
de l'aménagement et des réseaux (France)
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INTRAS-SINTEC - Universitat de Valencia (Spain)
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Palacky University – Czech Republic
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WIVW - University of Wurzburg (Germany)
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SWOV - Institute for Road Safety Research (Netherlands)
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TOI - Institute of Transport Economics (Norway)
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TUC - Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany)
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UPM - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)
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VTI - Swedish Transport Research Institute (Sweden)
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VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
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UPATRAS - University of Patras (Greece)
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CTL - “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)
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RE: Lab – Italy
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UNEW – University of Newcastle (UK)
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Fraunhofer IAO – Research Institute of Stuttgart (Germany)
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Ben Gurion University – University of Negev (Israel)
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BIVV – Research Institute in Brussels (Belgium)
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Advisory Group Synthesis
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Peter Burns, University of Quebec
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Lina Konstantinopoulou, ERTICO
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Keizuke Suzuki, University of Kagawa
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Andreas Keinath, BMW
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Michael Regan, University of South Wales
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Jean-Pierre Medevielle, HUMANIST President of Honour
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Task Forces
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TF1: HMI for clean vehicles
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TF2: Driver Distraction & HMI
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Moderator: Evangelos Bekiaris, HUMANIST President
TF6: Resilient Transport systems
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Moderator: José Manuel Menendez, UPM
TF5: Research & Innovation Roadmap
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Moderator: Stella Nikolaou, CERTH/HIT
TF4: HMI for non-Road & multimodal Transport
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Moderator: Anna Anund, VTI
TF3: HMI for VRU’s
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Moderator: Annie Pauzié, IFSTTAR
Moderator: Anabela Simoes, CIGEST
TF7: Autonomous Vehicles
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Moderator: Nicole van Nes, SWOV
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HUMANIST H2020 Vision
Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris
HUMANIST President
CERTH/HIT Research Director
European Conference on
Human Centred Design for
Intelligent Transport Systems
June 5, 2014
Vienna, Austria
H2020: EYES ON AUTOMATION
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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Levels of Driving Automation for On-Road
Vehicles (SAE International)
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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Road Automation & Safety: Considerations
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Human-centered definitions of levels of automation
Definition of hand-off processes between driver and system and how to test them
Vehicles with different levels of automation  Challenges in HMI design
Secondary tasks and influences on cockpit design
Can disengaged driver be brought back to attention, and how soon?
Matching driver mental model to actual system concept of operations
What level and kind of driver status display is needed?
Is an external display of automated status needed for other drivers?
Long-term unintended consequences of increased reliance on automation?
How to reconcile individual driver desire for convenience with need for safety?
in combination with:
Defining resiliency to include safety, reliability and security; Address
simultaneously or in sequence?
HUMANIST H2020 Topic: Human factor issues in partial and
conditional automation
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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H2020: PRIORITY ON
VRU SAFETY ENHANCEMENT
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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VRU Fatalities – Worldwide perspective (2010)
Source:
Bosch
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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VRU Accidents: Statistics & Observations
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Statistics (CARE, 2010)
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Statistics (Road Safety Annual Report 2014, IRTAD)
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Pedestrian fatalities accounted for 20% of the total road fatalities in 2008. The
proportion is higher for children and the elderly than for other age groups.
35% of children killed in European roads in 2008 were pedestrians.
Elderly account for 40% of the total road fatalities in EU-23.
Less success in saving lives among vulnerable road users than amongst car
occupants . Reductions in deaths of pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists have
levelled-off and some increases have been recorded since 2009/10.
Close to 40% of all pedestrians killed belong to the age group 65+.
In-depth observations (VRUITS, 2013)
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In the majority of cases, accidents tend to occur in urban areas with lower speed
limits (50km/h), with a passenger car being the most frequent collision partner.
Some important parameters could not be determined. These include vehicle
characteristics, vehicle speed pre-collision and pedestrian actions prior to collision.
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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VRU Safety & ITS: Research Priorities
(iMobility VRU WG)
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Large-Scale Field Operational Tests for Vulnerable Road Users
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Need for incident, near-miss and pre-crash data related to Vulnerable Road
Users (incl. single accidents).
Specificities of PTW’s on application and services and their
interaction with other road users.
Integrated safety for children, elderly and persons with reduced
mobility as pedestrians, cyclists and ebike users.
Interaction of VRU’s with automated and non-automated vehicles.
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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HUMANIST Research Priorities on VRU Safety &
Comfort
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Large-Scale Field Operational Tests for Vulnerable
Road Users
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Cooperative ITS technologies for safeguarding
children safety
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Interaction of VRU with automated and nonautomated vehicles
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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H2020: FUTURE AUTOMOTIVE
COCKPITS - AUGMENTED REALITY
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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Augmented Reality in the Driver Cockpit
(Source: BOSCH)
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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Augmented Reality in Automotive: Trends
(Source: BOSCH)
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There is clearly a strong trend that the consumer expects AR based
HMI in the Automotive cockpits.
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AR systems in Automotive cockpits calls for advanced knowledge in
optics, data fusion, ability to offer real time content and offering the
right user experience.
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AR will be seen/used in the short term in Head-up displays,
Instrument cluster and head-units.
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Users find the sensible augmentation of information useful and less
distracting and consider AR based HMI as modern and innovative.
HUMANIST H2020 Topic: Augmented reality in urban mobility (ITS or
urban mobility)
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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H2020: 2016-17 TRANSPORT
WORKPROGRAMME
PROS PROJECT TOPICS
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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PROS Project: Aggregation of Topics - HUMAN
Behaviour
in traffic – Making us safer road
users
H4 Analysis of road user behaviour
H5+6 Methodologies to analyse
road user behaviour
H7 Enforcement, incentives,
alternative approaches
Improving protection in crashes
– Counteracting our fragility
H9 The older person / the disabled
person
H1 Biomechanics + injury modeling
H2 Next generation crash dummies
Champion: SAFER
H3 Personal safety equipment for
VRUs (behavioural aspects)
H8 Training of road users
H9 The older person / the disabled
person
H10 Cultural aspects of road safety
Comment: HMI aspects not
included in vehicle area should be
included here (aiming at a
personalised and adaptive HMI)
Champion: HUMANIST
H2020 Topic: Behaviour in traffic – Making us safer road users
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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H2020: 2016-17 TRANSPORT
WORKPROGRAMME
Sustainable road users Training
through ICT & ITS
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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What can ITS training improve?
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Increase road users knowledge, improve behaviour and
enhance perception of the road environment.
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Understand in-vehicle and infrastructure-based ITS and
road automation, their benefits and their limitations.
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Increase road user awareness, safety and comfort.
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Provide knowledge on practical use, improving handling of
effects while using.
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Minimise safety risks due to misuse and/or lack of
knowledge on technology functionality.
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Enhance safety and efficient mobility, as well as promote
eco-friendly road transport.
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H2020: DANGEROUS GOODS
TRANSPORT SAFETY
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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DG transport – Accidents impacts
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Loss of human life: Over 200 people have died in Europe as result of
tunnel fires (successive effect of collisions) in the last decade (16 fire
accidents occurred in road tunnels in Europe from 1986 until 2006),
while 3% of the accidents in bridges are fatal (vs. 2% in total accidents).
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Economic damage: the Gotthard tunnel accident cost was estimated
to be 12 million Euros, only in terms of repair and insured losses for
vehicles
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Cost and time inefficiency: a single crash may close the
infrastructure for many hours, creating long queues and delays, with
vast financial cost induced for the whole business chain
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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DG transport – Beyond accidents
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Environmental damage due to traffic pollution in queues, noise pollution
and wasted energy (fuel) during queuing.
As a result of accidents, traffic jams but also road works and other
unexpected events but also due to the different national regulations and
individual infrastructure policies (i.e. DG vehicles are not allowed in
Gotthard tunnel), truck drivers are often forced to follow secondary
roads and alternative routes.
The actual accident risk and impact when using secondary roads or
other alternative ways is not calculated.
No particular guidance on the safest alternative when drivers need to reroute.
The business chain is not notified about routes and incidents; so, unable to
react when needed
Big delays in infrastructures – no passage priority (creating more delays…)
No automatic check of vehicles, cargo and driver (more delays, frequently
reason for non-passage)
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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Technological Responses to Priorities
Routing: use of a multiparametric decision support system to obtain optimum
routes (also in case of re-routing)
 Weighted Criteria: Safety (Individual/Societal), Security, Cost, Environmental
Damage
 Taking into account local rules & restrictions, traffic and environmental data,
vehicle and cargo status
 Monitoring: use of advanced telematics to monitor dangerous goods
movements
 Logistics Chain Notification: notify all involved actors of the Logistics Chain
what they should be aware of in case of an incident – fast reaction and
guidance
 Enforcement/emergency through telematic solution
 Automatic (pre-trip) Passage Priority to reduce delays (critical also for
Vulnerable Goods transport)
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HUMANIST H2020 Topic: Safe, Efficient, Secure and Environmental
Friendly Transport of Dangerous and High Value Goods
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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H2020: 2016-17 TRANSPORT
WORKPROGRAMME
Strengthening the ERA
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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Integration and Coordination of ERA in
Transport
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Submitted and promoted by HUMANIST President through the
European Transport Research Alliance (ETRA).
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Proposed as a topic under Area 9 for the 2016-17 Transport
Workprogramme.
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Scope: A forum for communication, collaboration, relationshipbuilding should develop multi-stakeholder interactions and produce an
action plan for innovative solution/options for transport and mobility to
advance the agenda of the transport sector and society at large. The
work should be inclusive of the state of the art of ideas, trials and
business endeavours on new mobility concepts (VERA-T).
HUMANIST H2020 Topic: Integration and Coordination of ERA in
Transport
June 5, 2014
European Conference on HCD for ITS
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