News & Events
MDH and Sensair start to recruit participants for Cycle 3
June 22, 2020
MDH and Senseair are ready to invite participants to the Sensair facility to join in the SIMUSAFE simulator research. In this article posted last week on MDH’s University website, MDH and Senseair discuss the project as well as share a video. Ma....
The contribution of psychologists to Simusafe
June 2, 2020
UCSC– Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – takes part in the SIMUsafe project with a team composed of traffic psychologists, from the Traffic Unit Research. The U....
University of Porto’s team enters the EuVsVirus Hackathon
June 1, 2020
In May, 2020, several of our researchers from University of Porto, FEUP, participated in the EuVsVirus Hackathon. The team consisted of Thiago Munhoz , João Jacob, Henrique Rubio, and Silvia Baez . Thiago Munhoz has written a post explaining their su....
How to Build a Test Track
May 26, 2020
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....
EFA Newsletter
May 13, 2020
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
May 13, 2020
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....
EFA Newsletter
March 13, 2020
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
February 13, 2020
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.....
Second consortium meeting hosted by IFSTTAR
January 17, 2020
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
January 17, 2020
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
January 17, 2020
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....
Partner presentation at conference
November 29, 2019
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)’, ....
SIMUSAFE News in Sweden
October 10, 2019
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....
Västerås Consortium Meeting
September 23, 2019
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 ....
New collaborator on board
July 29, 2019
We are excited to welcome the Association *Les Amis de la Route* du Mali to the simusafe consortium. They have joined as project collaborators; we look forward to learning from each other! To learn more about them visit this site: http://roadsafetyngo....
Festival of Innovation
June 18, 2019
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....
A new Powered Two-Wheeler position paper
May 26, 2019
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 ....
Educational workshop
May 20, 2019
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 t....
Consortium Meeting in sunny Porto
March 29, 2019
The partners met in March for our third consortium meeting. It was a productive two days. We thank University of Porto for their great hosting. Topics of discussion included current status of each WP and starting planning for Ethics and Cycle 3.
The Spanish President visits ITCL
March 13, 2019
Carlos Catalina explica a @sanchezcastejon el proyecto de #H2020 @SIMUSAFE liderado por nuestro centro 🚗🚗 un proyecto que analiza el comportamiento de los conductores ( coches, motos, bicis y peatones) en #simuladores de #realidadvirtual pic.twitter.c....
Interim Project Review
January 29, 2019
The partners braved a snowy Brussels to present the progress of the SIMUSAFE project to the EU Commission. It was a very interesting and productive meeting with good guidance on next steps.
GoMobilityExpo: poster presentation
November 27, 2018
ITCL presented the SIMUSAFE project at the GO Mobility Expo in Spain.
SIMUSAFE partner, BrainSigns, publishes 2 papers
October 25, 2018
We are pleased to present two papers from BrainSigns that were recently accepted for publication. Both used research undertaken for the SIMUSAFE project. (more…)
Cycle 1 data collection
October 25, 2018
Our partners at Prometeo have received their naturalistic data collection kit for Cycle 1. They are now handing out equipment for their volunteers. Mobile phones for everyone as well as Smart Glasses for the people who are walking or riding their bic....
Coventry’s new kit
October 20, 2018
The Coventry University team is busy setting up the new 4K monitors for the bike simulator. It is quite exciting to see the ITCL’s urban environment on the big screens!
Krakow Consortium Meeting a Productive Success
September 27, 2018
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 ....
And it’s off!
September 5, 2018
Coventry University bids its bicycle simulator bon voyage on its trip to @_ITCL (sorry about the peanuts!) So many peanuts
SIMUSAFE partner, BrainSigns, publishes 2 papers
July 29, 2018
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....