News & Events
Welcome SCHUHFRIED to SIMUSAFE
We are proud to have the creator and manufacturer of the Vienna Test System (VTS) join SIMUSAFE as a collaborator. Originally a pioneer of digital testing, SCHUHFRIED is now an acknowledged expert in this field. More than 13 million tests are adm....
How to Build a Test Track
Aleksandra Mankiewicz from our partner, APTIV, has written this post describing how APTIV designed and built the SIMUSAFE test track for Cycle 2. A former airport runway for small planes was chosen for the track area outside of Krakow. This c....
A new Powered Two-Wheeler position paper
The European Union Road Federation (ERF) and the Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations (FEMA) have published a new position paper detailing the infrastructure improvements the two agencies feel would best help increase the safety of ....
Second consortium meeting hosted by IFSTTAR
In January, the SIMUSAFE partners met in France for our second meeting. There was substantial discussion surrounding preparing for Phase One of the project doing Naturalistic research with each of the modes.
Upcoming GDLS Workshop in Milano
The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore’s Department of Psychology along with SIMUSAFE partners EFA and AIPSS are holding a workshop in Milano on the 26th of June. In it they will be discussing the Graduated Driver License System (GDLS) in the Europ....
Krakow Consortium Meeting a Productive Success
The partners gathered last week in Krakow, Poland for a three-day meeting hosted by APTIV. The focus was on finishing up cycle 1, the naturalistic phase, and preparing for cycles 2 and 3, the controlled and simulated phases. Below the partners break ....
SIMUSAFE partner, BrainSigns, publishes 2 papers
We are pleased to present two papers from BrainSigns that were recently accepted for publication. Both used research undertaken for the SIMUSAFE project. Aricò, P., Borghini, G., Di Flumeri, G., Sciaraffa, N., & Babiloni, F. (2018). Passive BC....
Partner presentation at conference
MDH recently presented some of their simusafe research entitled Supervised Learning for Road Junctions Identification using IMU at the International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI’ 2019)’, ....
Educational workshop
Consortium partners EFA and AIPSS held the first in a series of simusafe workshops last month in Brussels. Entitled Autonomous vehicles and road safety: towards new training modules for drivers and driving instructors, almost 20 people attended this o....
Festival of Innovation
Aptiv’s SIMUSAFE team Our partner, Aptiv, recently participated in Lesser Poland’s Festival of Innovation in Krakow. This event was open to the general public and there was a very good audience turnout. A large group of people learning about SI....
Västerås Consortium Meeting
On the 17th and 18th of September, the SIMUSAFE Consortium met for its 5th General Meeting in Västerås, Sweden. The meeting was hosted by our partners at Mälardalen University (www.mdh.se). The meeting focused on scheduling and partner preparation ....
SIMUSAFE News in Sweden
The SIMUSAFE project recently received a lot of media coverage last month in Västerås, Sweden and beyond. The project meeting was discussed in a radio interview on the 13th of September. P4 Västmanland interviewed project partner, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed a....
EFA Newsletter
The March newsletter by EFA is out. In this issue, EFA explores what the current status is of the Driving Schools in the EU due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Other topics covered include the latest report by LEARN! on sets out their current recommendati....
Training workshop in Milano
Shortly before the COVID-19 lockdown, several of the SIMUSAFE partners gathered in Milano, hosted by our UCSC partners. In preparation for the start of Cycle 3 data collection, we all met to be trained on the multiple tools which we will all be using.....
EFA Newsletter
We are pleased to share the latest Newsletter from our partner, EFA. This newsletter deals with a broad range of interesting topics including Truck Platooning, public awareness and attitudes towards automated driving, and an interview with the Piagg....
SIMUSAFE Consortium Meeting
The SIMUSAFE Consortium was scheduled to meet up in Coventry, UK last month. Three weeks before we were all scheduled to meet. Coventry and ITCL met online and decided to transfer the meeting to an online format for the health and safety of all the pa....
Kick off meeting at ITCL
In June 2017 the SIMUSAFE consortium gathered for the project Kick Off Meeting held at the ITCL offices in Burgos, Spain.
Call for volunteers for naturalistic driving tests in Spain
ITCL and PROMETEO are now pre-selecting volunteers (car drivers, two-wheelers and pedestrian) for the naturalistic driving test in Spain. The volunteer must have an age between 18 and 24 OR between 50 and 70 years old who drive their vehicle (car, mot....
Second consortium meeting hosted by IFSTTAR
In January, the SIMUSAFE partners met in France for our second meeting. There was substantial discussion surrounding preparing for Phase One of the project doing Naturalistic research with each of the modes.
A new Powered Two-Wheeler position paper
The European Union Road Federation (ERF) and the Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations (FEMA) have published a new position paper detailing the infrastructure improvements the two agencies feel would best help increase the safety of ....
Krakow Consortium Meeting a Productive Success
The partners gathered last week in Krakow, Poland for a three-day meeting hosted by APTIV. The focus was on finishing up cycle 1, the naturalistic phase, and preparing for cycles 2 and 3, the controlled and simulated phases. Below the partners b....
SIMUSAFE partner, BrainSigns, publishes 2 papers
We are pleased to present two papers from BrainSigns that were recently accepted for publication. Both used research undertaken for the SIMUSAFE project. (more…)
Partner presentation at conference
MDH recently presented some of their simusafe research entitled Supervised Learning for Road Junctions Identification using IMU at the International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI’ 2019)’, ....
Educational workshop
Consortium partners EFA and AIPSS held the first in a series of simusafe workshops last month in Brussels. Entitled Autonomous vehicles and road safety: towards new training modules for drivers and driving instructors, almost 20 people attended this o....
