The Research Institute of Human Factors in Road Safety together with Faculty of Social Sciences at  Bar Ilan Center University co-organised with great success the 30th Annual Conference of Road Safety, which took place online on 28 July 2022. Thirteen Israeli lecturers and six lecturers from US, UK, Australia, Germany, Greece and Italy presented their original research on this international scientific conference.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation :

•  Interactions between Autonomous Vehicles & Vulnerable Road Users
  

The Centro Studi Città Amica per la sicurezza nella Mobilità (CESCAM) of the University of Brescia, organised with great success the 3rd International Conference on Road Safety, that was held in Brescia, on 13 June 2022.  This year the International Conference focused on “Priorities Actions Agenda”, or rather on which criteria to adopt to draw up an agenda of intervention priorities regarding road safety. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation :

•  Scientific Research in Road Safety-Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

The European Transport Safety Council  (ETSC) organized with great success the PIN Talk “Road Safety Strategies: Saving lives”, which was held on 7 July 2022, in Madrid, Spain. The PIN Talk focused on the role of road safety strategies in helping to reduce road deaths and serious injuries. ETSC and plenty of countries presented their latest road safety strategies.

ETSC, Fundación MAPFRE and the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) organised with great success the 2022 edition of the European Traffic Education Seminar, which was held as a hybrid event (online and in Madrid), on 13 September 2022. The aims of the seminar were to equip young road users to become safe road users, given the appropriate education. The seminar consisted of two distinct parts, focused on sustainable mobility with traffic safety and presentations on the latest traffic education projects from across Europe.

The Dresden Technical University organised with great success the International Cycling Safety Conference (ICSC2022) which was held in Dresden, Germany on 8–10 November 2022. The ICSC is a forum for researchers and experts in the field of cycling safety to exchange their knowledge and bring up new research topics and safety solutions. The conference included 12 parallel sessions, 2 keynote speeches, 2 poster sessions and a variety of social events.  

The Province of Brescia, leader partner of the Interreg Europe programme, co-organised with great success the Final High Level Political Dissemination Event of the e-MOPOLI project, which was held in Brescia on Wednesday 13th July 2022. The project, which started in 2018 and will end in November this year, involves 9 partners from 8 European countries: Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Romania and Latvia.   

The European Union Road Federation (ERF) together with AISICO, organized with great success the second edition of the International Conference on Road Safety- Smart and Safe Roads: the role of vehicle restraint systems which took place on 29th-30th September 2022 at AISICO test Lab in Italy. The main topic of the Conference was to analyze how road restraint systems are evolving to face an ever growing demand for safety in a world that is moving towards smart roads. The conference was organized in 3 sessions .  

The 6th International Symposium for Highway Geometric Design (ISHGD) took place with great success in Amsterdam on 29 June 2022. The Symposium managed to encourage the continuous improvement of highway geometric design and focused on the latest breakthrough practices relating to highway engineering in their different life phases, including daily operational effects and safe highway designs.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations and papers :

•   Development and implementation of a methodology for the economic appraisal of road infrastructure safety schemes (Best Paper Award)
•   Superelevation Transition Assessment on Rural Roads with Reverse Consecutive Horizontal Curves
•   Impact of Road and Traffic Characteristics on Driver Behaviour and Safety Using Data from Smartphone
•   Urban Street Network Upgrade for the New Intercity Bus Terminal in the City of Athens
•   Pavement Grooving Pattern Direction Investigation as a Countermeasure of Hydroplaning
•   Passenger Cars Safety Assessment on Interchange Ramps
•   Passing Sight Distance -Regulations Vs Reality

The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) organised with great success the EU Road Safety Exchange – Final Event which was held in Brussels, on 18 May 2022. Dutch-inspired improvements to cycling infrastructure in Lithuania, harmonised day and night-time urban speed limits in Poland and major new national road safety strategies in Greece and Portugal are some of the changes inspired by the EU-funded Road Safety Exchange project. The recordings of the Final Event are now available. 

The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) organised the 16th World Conference on Transport Research which was held in Montreal, Canada, on 17-21 July 2023.  For the last 40 years, WCTR has been organised every three years by the WCTR Society. WCTR allowed sharing cutting-edge research and advanced state-of-practice and provides a unique opportunity for experts to exchange ideas in all areas of transport research.  

The 8th Road Safety & Simulation International Conference 2022 (RSS2022) took place with great success on 08-10 June 2022 at Zappeion Megaron in Athens organized by NTUA and HITE under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the City of Athens. NTUA actively contributed with the following papers and presentations:

•   Exploring the development of an open data platform for road safety KPIs
•   Which driving performance parameters affect speeding? A naturalistic driving experiment
•   Investigation of accident modelling data in Greece
•   A state-of-practice review on Crash Prediction Modelling
•   A state-of-the-art Review on Crash Occurrence Analysis and Hazardous Location Identification
•   Road Safety Audit Implementation – an international inquiry
•   Methodological framework of creating the Levitate Policy-Support Tool for Connected and Automated Transport Systems
•   Discovering the influence of feedback on driver behavior through a multiphase experiment based on a smartphone application
•   Modeling the concept of a Safety Tolerance Zone: State-of-the-art and proposed alternatives
•   Methodology for the Evaluation of Safety Interventions
•   Real-Time Monitoring of Driver Distraction: State-of-the-art and Future Insights
•   A review of risk factors associated with elderly, truck and office worker drivers for automated driving applications
•   The role of values in road safety culture: Are motorcycle riders’ higher accident risk a result of their appreciation of freedom to take risk?
•   How environmental charging policies affect urban road safety?
•   The Demands of Road Environments as Perceived by Vulnerable Road Users
•   Identifying crucial factors of the impact of COVID-19 on driving behaviour using feature analysis on naturalistic driving data
•   Design of an on-road driving experiment on assessing driving behavior of older drivers
•   Assessing Driving Performance of Older Drivers – A Literature Review
•   Correlation of declared and revealed driver behaviour using smartphone sensors
•   Exploring critical driving parameters affecting speeding using data from smartphones
•   Factors contributing to safety-critical events in urban areas: A driving simulator study
•   Identification of safety-critical events on rural roads using a driving simulator
•   Investigation of traffic and safety behavior of pedestrians while talking on mobile phone
•   The Role of Traffic Speed Range in Road Safety – The Case of Two-Lane Rural Highways
•   Investigating the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on Eco-driving behavior
•   Defining Vehicle Passing Trajectories utilizing GNSS Data
•   Retroreflection Performance of Urban Road Signs
•   Overtaking Trajectory Assessment Utilizing Data from Driving Simulator
•   Vehicle Data Collection for Predicting Driving Behavior on Interchanges
•  Road Safety and Digitalization

The International Commission for Driver Testing (CIECA) organised with great success the 54th CIECA Congress, which was held in Naples, on 8-9 June 2022. With this congress, titled “Driver training and testing: finding the balance between mobility and safety through the use of innovative technology, improved curricula and data analysis”, CIECA focused on how advancing the importance of driver training and testing can help reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads every year. 

The 8th Road Safety & Simulation International Conference 2022 (RSS2022) took place with great success on 08-10 June 2022 at Zappeion Megaron in Athens organized by NTUA and HITE under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the City of Athens. 320 road safety scientists from 28 countries joined this first post-pandemic global road safety in-person major event, to discuss on current and future challenges of Road Safety in the Digital Era. Conference proceedings and presentations are now available:

The 10th Symposium of European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART2022), co-organized by KU Leuven and the University of Luxembourg took place in Leuven, on 1-3 June 2022. The Symposium offered an opportunity for in depth discussion in all scientific methods and analyses in transport including safety, in plenary, in focus groups and in a summer school for PhD students on 31 May 2022. 

The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) organized with great success the Road Safety Performance Index Annual Conference (PIN conference) which was held online, on 15 June 2022. This year’s PIN Conference focused on assessing how improving road safety can help countries reach the 2030 target to cut road deaths and serious injuries by 50% and it also presented the 2022 PIN Award to a country that has made outstanding progress on improving road safety. 

The 74th AAN Annual Meeting, organised by the American Academy of Neurology, took place with great success as a hybrid event (Seattle and online) on 2-7 April 2022. The AAN Annual Meeting is the largest international meeting of neurologists and neuroscience professionals and with the return to a live, in-person meeting in 2022, there was strong professional attendance.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation :

•  Predicting behind-the-wheel driving behavior in PD through motor and cognitive testing in outpatient clinics 

HUMANIST organized with great success the “HUMANIST Summer School 2022“, which was held in Vienna, Austria on 14-16 September 2022. The main topic of this Summer School session was “Human Factors, Automated Driving and Active Mobility” with 2 focusses: Psychological fitness to manage automated driving & Changing mobility behaviour towards more active travel: measuring ‘experience’ and cultural factors.  

The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Levitate (Societal Level Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles) organized with great success the Project’s Final Conference, which was held in Brussels, on 25 May 2022. The LEVITATE partners shared the results achieved and the tools developed to assess the potential societal impacts of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) on the mobility system and wider livability goals, including safety, the environment, the economy and society. A focused presentation of the Levitate CCAM Policy Support Tool is also foreseen.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations :

•  Policy Support Tool
•  Automated Urban Transport Services

A paper titled “Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Networks: A simulation-based Assessment” authored by Athina Tympakianaki, Leyre Nogues, Jordi Casas, Mark Brackstone, Maria Oikonomou, Eleni Vlahogianni, Tamara Djukic and George Yannis has been published in Transportation Research Record. A combination of microscopic and macroscopic simulations as well as statistical methods are applied. The results indicate a positive impact in relation to capacity changes resulting from the presence of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) which vary with penetration rate. Analysis of three different urban networks, Barcelona, Bilbao (Spain), and Athens (Greece), reveals consistent trends.  

A paper titled “Humanizing Autonomous Vehicle Driving: Understanding, Modelling and Impact Assessment” authored by Foteini Orfanou, Eleni Vlahogianni, George Yannis and Evangelos Mitsakis has been published in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. The proposed framework consists of four sequential steps: i. conceptual design, ii. data collection, processing and mining, iii. modelling and iv. autonomous vehicles impact assessment. The connection between these steps is illustrated and various Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are specified for each impact area. The paper ends with highlighting some conceptual and modeling challenges that may critically affect the study of acceptance of autonomous vehicles in future mobility scenarios. 

The ESRA2 Group (E-Survey of Road Users’ Attitudes) together with IFSTTAR/Universite Gustave Eiffel organised with great success the International Conference on Traffic Safety Culture and Performance Indicators that was held online, on 21 April 2022. The Conference was an opportunity to learn from in-depth scientific analyses of the ESRA databases, in relation to different types of road users and different aspects of attitudes, behavior and culture and highlight key road safety problems and solutions.  NTUA actively contributed with the following  presentations:

•  Correlations of multiple rider behaviors with self-reported attitudes, perspectives on traffic rule strictness and social desirability
•  Modelling self-reported driver perspectives and fatigued driving via deep learning

The International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) organized with great success the 23rd International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety Conference, which was held in Rotterdam, on 28-31 August 2022. ICADTS provides delegates with a great opportunity to network and explore ideas and solutions to current and emerging issues relating to alcohol, drugs and traffic safety around the world. 

The Intertraffic Exhibition 2022 was held in Amsterdam, on 29 March – 1 April 2022. The Exhibition offered mobility professionals the ability to experience the latest solutions for today’s challenges with all the experts in the field and to discover the latest trends in infrastructure, traffic management, smart mobility, road safety and parking.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations:

•  Safer Mobility with Artificial Intelligence
•  Big Data for Sustainable and Innovative Roads

The European Platform of Transport Sciences (EPTS) organized with great success the 20th European Transport Conference under the theme “After pandemic – before autonomous transport“, which was held in Gyor, Hungary, on 9-10 June 2022. This Conference was special, as it was a joint event with the European Transport Congress organized by the European Platform of Transport Sciences. 

The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Levitate (Societal Level Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles) organised with great success a Webinar under the theme “Building a dialogue with the LEVITATE cities” which was held online, on 7 April 2022. The participants had the opportunity to learn about the principles of backcasting, how a dialogue with city authorities led to valuable qualitative inputs for the research, and how the final results of the impact assessment relate to the backcasting approach. 

The International Road Federation (IRF) organized with great success the Innovation Driving the Future of Sustainable Mobility Workshop that was held in Amsterdam, on 30 March 2022. This Workshop marked the launch of a new IRF Committee on Innovation with the active participation of NTUA. An overarching Committee with subgroups provided a unique platform to share expertise and knowledge and to tailor solutions (policy and technical) to the pressing issues our sector is facing. 

The Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) organised with great success a Webinar under the theme: Network-wide Road Safety Assessment (Article 5) of RISM II, which was held on 3 March 2022. CEDR WG Road Safety aims to develop and share knowledge among NRAs on the improvement of safety of road infrastructure.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Study on a Methodology for Network-wide Road Safety Assessment

The Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV) and the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe) co-organized with great success the EU-Safety 2022 which was held in Vienna, on 23-24 June 2022. The main topic of the Conference was the safety level in a digitalized and fast-changing world and how smart will injury prevention get. 

The School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens organized with great success 5 Workshops in the field of Urban and Spatial Planning which were held in Athens, on 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 March 2022. In the Workshops, many interesting topics were covered such as Metropolitan Planning, Urban Endurance and Sustainable Mobility.  NTUA Professor George Yannis contributed actively with the following presentation:

• Athens Great Walk – Sustainable Mobility from Theory to Practice

ITS America, ERTICO and ITS Asia-Pasific co-organised the 28th ITS World Congress which was held in Los Angeles, on 18-22 September 2022, under the theme: “Transformation by Transportation”. ITS World Congress is the forum to make meaningful connections, experience inventive conference program presented by industry experts, and see cutting-edge technology in the Exhibit Hall. ITS World Congress allows the smart mobility community to come together to explore the deployment of intelligent transportation technologies that saves lives, improves mobility, promotes sustainability, and increases efficiency and productivity.​ 

ERTICO organised with great success the 14th ITS European Congress which took place in Toulouse, on 30 May – 1 June 2022. The ITS Congresses represent the ultimate showcase of mobility services deployment and are the means for the ITS Community to keep pace with the incredible evolution of the industry. Over the years, the European Congresses have offered a platform for thought leaders, developers, entrepreneurs and decision makers from the transport, logistics and IT industries to share ideas and progress smart and sustainable mobility.

The NTUA Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering organised with great success a Scientific Workshop titled “Telematics and Improvement of Driver Behavior” which took place in Athens on February 22nd, 2022. Key driver telematics research findings were demonstrated and discussed, highlighting spectacular safety benefits from monitoring, evaluation and improvement of driver behaviour through feedback tools, social gamification schemes and motivation for drivers.

Workshop Presentations:

•  Telematics and improvement of driving behavior
• Telematics and Internet of Things
•  Naturalistic driving experiments as a driving behavior recording tool
•  Assesment and Improvement of driving behavior and safety through the application of BeSmart
•  Investigation of speeding and aggressive behavior of professional drivers on highways through an innovative smartphone application
•  Driver-vehicle-environment interactions and the safety tolerance zone – i-Dreams
•  Predicting unsafe driving events on motorway segments – i-safemodels
•  Smart city mapping for safer and eco driver behaviour – SmartMaps

POLIS, the European Cities Network, organised with great success the 2022 Annual Polis Conference, which took place in Brussels, on 30 November and 1 December 2022.  The POLIS Annual Conference provided an opportunity for cities and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience of mobility experts, practitioners and decision-makers. Urban Road Safety is a key conference priority.  

The International Traffic Safety Conference (ITSC2022) organised by The Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center (QTTSC), the Qatar University and the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) is postponed to 21-22 February 2023, in Doha. The Conference theme is: “Towards A World-Class Safe and Sustainable Transport and Traffic System for Developing Countries” and the main objectives are to recognize the transportation needs for the developing countries and to introduce, improve and strengthen arrangements for monitoring serious injuries from road traffic accidents to facilitate action to meet the new targets for the Decade of Action for Road Safety. 

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) organised with great success the 101st Annual Meeting, which was held on 9-13 January 2022 in Washington DC. The meeting program covered all transportation modes, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A number of sessions and workshops  focused on the spotlight theme for the 2022 meeting: Innovating an Equitable, Resilient, Sustainable, and Safe Transportation System.  NTUA actively contributed with the following papers and presentations :

•   Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Networks: A simulation-based Assessment
•   Passenger Car Unit Values of Connected Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Road Networks

A paper titled “Classification and Evaluation of Driving Behaviour Safety Levels: A Driving Simulation Study”  authored by Kui Yang, Costantinos Antoniou and George Yannis has been published in IEEE. The proposed methodology focuses on determining the optimal aggregation time interval, finding the optimal number of safety levels for driving behavior, classifying the safety levels, and evaluating the driving safety levels in real time. Support vector machines, decision trees and naïve Bayes classifiers were then developed as classification models. The accuracy of the combination of k-means clustering and decision trees proved to be the best with three clusters.  

The University of Thessaly, Department of Civil Engineering, Traffic, Transportation and Logistics Laboratory (TTLog), organized with great success the 6th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, which took palace in Skiathos Island, Greece, on 31 August – 2 September 2022. The theme of this year’s Conference was: “Smart Energy for Smart Transport” highlighting interesting topics as electric and clean energy in transportation, emerging and innovative technologies in transport and active and non-motorized travel.    

The Public Health Association in Australia (PHAA) in co-operation with the World Health Organization (WHO) organised with great success the 14th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, which was held in Adelaide, on 27-30 November 2022. The Conference brought together people from across the globe to explore, discuss, and develop injury prevention strategies and it held workshops pre, post and during the conference, debates, meetings, site visits, conference declarations. 

The Transportation Public Health Link (TPH Link) organized with great success the International Conference on Transport & Health (ICTH2022) which was held in Cardiff and online, on 13-30 June 2022. The theme for ICTH 2022 was “​​Looking upstream to identify downstream Social Determinants of Health” in order to analyse the impact of transport (and urban/rural) planning and design on quality of life, health and well-being in communities. 

Boussias Communications organized the Connected Vehicle Conference 2022, that was held online, on 22 February 2022. The Conference, thought many interesting presentations, aimed to cover all innovative steps taken towards vehicles’ inteconnected services and to exlplain how telematics and connectivity add value the vehicle fleet management. 

The International Transport Forum (ITF) organized the ITF 2022 Summit, that was held in Leipzig, Germany, on 18-20 May 2022. The theme of the 2022 Summit was Transport for Inclusive Societies and transport experts explored silo-breaking measures that boost inclusiveness and debate over all modes and diverse geographic levels and show the importance of inter-sectoral and multi-level governance. 

The European Commission together with 2Zero, ERTRAC, and CCAM co-organised with great success the 5th European Conference H2020RTR21, which was held in Brussels, on 29-30 March 2022. 65 H2020 projects presented their new discoveries and achievements, how they tackled hurdles and resolved challenges, and what are the next research steps in different important areas for road transport: Green Vehicles, Urban Mobility, Logistics, Intelligent Transport Systems, Safety, Automated Road Transport.  

The Forum of European Road Safety Research Organisations (FERSI) organisined with great success the 2022 Road Safety Conference which took place on 6-7 October 2022 in Hague, Netherlands. This highly interesting Conference focused on the exchange of national and regional experiences and implemented evidence-based road safety measures, both positive and negative ones. There was a specific focus on the road to successful implementation, including overcoming the barriers encountered along the way.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations :

•  Measuring the impact of driver behavior telematics in road safety
•  Exploring the development of an open data platform for road safety KPIs

The Chambre de Commerce et d’ Institute France-Grece (CCIFG) organised with great success the Sustainable Transport Infrastucture Forum, which was held in Athens on 15 December 2021. Several topics where discussed such as Sustainable Cities with Smart Transportation and Sustainable Public Transport.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Towards safer, smarter and greener mobility in Athens

The Editorial Board of the Accident Analysis & Prevention organised with great success the 2nd International Symposium on Accident Analysis & Prevention (ISAAP2021), which was held online, on 29 November 2021. The Symposium principally focused on the road safety under the environment of intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) and approximately 300 attendees participated from twenty different countries. All videos, posters, and related publications are available.  

The Network of regional Road Safety Observatories (RSO), namely the European (ERSO), Ibero American (OISEVI), African (ARSO), Asia and Pacific (APRSO), Western Balkans (WBRSO) and the about to be formalized Easter Parnership (EaPRSO) and Arab (AIRSO), organised with great success the 2nd Meeting of Western Balkans Road Safety Observatories, which was hed in Skopjie on 30 November – 1 December 2021. This meeting discussed the integration of the 2nd Decade for Action Plan into the observatories´ work plans and reached agreement from RSO members on proposed indicators, policy goals, and procedures.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Road Safety in Greece: A decade of improvements

CIVINET organised with great success the 1st CIVINET Greece-Cyprus Forum under the theme “Greek Society Towards the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility on the horizon of 2030”, which was held in Athens, on 9-10 December 2021. The Conference was an opportunity for scientific organisations and researchers all over Europe to share their research results, tools, studies, and innovative solutions, with the rapidly growing Greek-speaking sustainable mobility community.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Assessment of the Pilot Operation of Athens Great Walk

The Hellenic Association for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS Hellas), organised with great success the 7th ITS Hellas Conference which was held in Athens, on 8-9 December 2021.  This hybrid Conference was held under the theme “Transportation & Logistics 4.0: Exploring Innovation”, focusing on the challenges, the needs and the benefits that will be brought by the progression in the area of transportation in Greece.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Data visualization for Road Safety Decision Support

POLIS, the European Cities Network, organised with great success the 2021 Annual Polis Conference, which took place on 1-2 December 2021 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Conference provided an opportunity for cities and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience of mobility experts, practitioners and decision makers. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and co-creation, Gothenburg hosted one of Europe’s most dynamic clusters within the field of mobility and safety.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  The Levitate Connected and Automated Transport Systems Policy Support Tool

The European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM), organised with great success the European Conference on Mobility Management (ECOMM2021), which was held in Cacais, Portugal, on 24-25 November 2021, under the theme Beginning of a New Era – Accelerating Shifting to Sustainable Mobility.  Considering the necessary deep changes in economy, society, policy, environment and technology, ECOMM 2021 encouraged the discussion and exchange on the Beginning of a New Era at a European level. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

• The LEVITATE Policy support tool to enhance the preparedness for a future with increasing levels of automated vehicles

The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Levitate (Societal Level Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles) organised with great success a Webinar under the theme “Social Level Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles“.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Automated Urban Transport Services Webinar

The University of Bologna, within the framework of the EU funded Horizon 2020 project PREDICT: Theory of prediction in the digital society, organised with great success a Workhop that was held in Bologna, on 18-19 November 2021. PREDICT aims to investigate a more extensive form of rationality in contemporary prediction, and the main Workshop theme was “The Future of Insurance: How does algorithmic prediction affect insurance practices?”.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  The transformation of the insurance industry & road safety by driver behaviour telematics

The  European Federation of Road Victims (FEVR) together with FIAFoundation and UNRSC members commemorated the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2021 (#WDoR2021) on 21 November 2021.  The slogan of WDoR2021 was Remember-Support-Act and the main objectives were to provide a platform for road traffic victims and their families to remember all people killed and seriously injured on the roads, acknowledge the crucial work of the emergency services and to draw attention to the generally trivial legal response to culpable road deaths and injuries.  The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) has organised a Conversation on Road Safety. 

The International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) organised with great success the 7th GIFTS Symposium, which was held online, on 18 November. In this 7th forum, experts in transportation and safety as well as specialists from international organizations, kicked around the roles of transportation policy in response to regional and national characteristics. The aim was to exchange opinions and discuss various issues to be resolved for a sustainable transportation society and future prospects, while keeping the ideal post-corona society in mind.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Open data as a catalyst for traffic safety culture change

The International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (IRTAD) of the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) organised with great success the 33rd Meeting which was held online on 16 November. In this Conference the latest international road safety developments were discussed. NTUA contributed actively with the following presentation:

•  The value of disaggregate data in road crash analysis

Lund University and The Swedish Cycling Research Centre at VTI co-organised with great success the ICSC2021 under the theme “Safe cycling as an integral part of the future mobility system: planning and designing for a safe interaction between road users“, which was held online, on 10-12 November 2021. The Conference took place on the virtual networking platform in which efficient social interactions were made possible and it had a special session under the theme “Cycling in pandemic time“.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

 Assessing the Impact of Bicycle Treatment Type on the Frequency of Right-Hook Conflicts Between Bicyclists and Motorized Vehicles at Signalized Intersections

The Road Traffic Safety Agency of Serbia (RTSA) together with several Serbian and international road safety Governmental, Academic and other organisations organised with great success the 17th International Conference Road Safety in Local Communities, which was held in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia on 13-16 April 2022. In this Conference participants had the opportunity to present and hear about the activities of local communities, through a number of workshops and round tables. 

The European Commission (DG Move) has organised with great success the CARE Expert Meeting, that was held online, on 28 October 2021.  The Meeting was a great opportunity for an open discussion on data gathered on road crashes and fatalities.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  The value of disaggregate data in road crash analysis

The SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre, the Université Gustave Eiffel (UGE)  and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) co-organised with great success the 8th International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI2022) which was held in Gothenburg, on 19-20 October 2022. The Conference brought together participants – from academia, industry and government – up-to-date on the developments and trends in the field of inattention and distraction in driving.

The International Road Federation (IRF) organised with great success the IRF Annual Conference 2021, under the theme “Innovation: Charting Pathways to Sustainable Mobility” which was held on 20-21 October 2021. With fast-growing populations leading to significant urbanisation, the demand for new transport infrastructure is predicted to see massive growth in coming decades. The new challenges that the Conference focused on, were the increasing expectations of businesses, service users and the public and the need to reduce carbon emissions and waste. 

The 2022 International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury Europe Conference was held with great success in Porto, Portugal, on 14-16 September 2022. Through scientific conferences, training courses and other activities, the IRCOBI Council provides an academically rigorous forum for dissemination of the latest research into injury causation and protective systems. 

The French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) organised with great success the 7th International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI2021) under the theme “Disconnected drivers during manual, assisted, and automated driving”, which was held online, on 18-20 October. The Conference topics included theory, measurement, effects, crash risks, and prevention/mitigation related to driver distraction and inattention. Moreover, DDI2021 focused on the driver/occupant status.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•   The traffic and safety effect of smartphone texting and web surfing during driving in cities: A driving simulator study

The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Levitate (Societal Level Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles) organised with great success a Webinar under the theme Policy interventions, which was held online, on 18 October.  The Webinar provided insights on the potential impacts of introducing policy measures related to on-street parking repurposing, road-user pricing and dedicated CAV lanes. These policy interventions have been assessed using realistic traffic models  in terms of their impacts on traffic, the environment (CO2, NOx and PM) and road safety. 

The United Nations (UN) organised with great success the Second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference which took place in Beijing, on 14-16 October 2021. The Conference focused attention on the opportunities, challenges and solutions towards achieving sustainable transport worldwide. The programme of the Conference reflected the diversity and complexity of the transport sector and provided an opportunity for policy dialogue as well as forging partnerships and initiatives to advance sustainable transport. 

ERTICO organised with great success the ITS World Congress which took place on 11-15 October 2021, in Hamburg, Germany under the theme “Experience Future Mobility Now“. Every year, ERTICO organises an ITS regional or World Congress in Europe. The Congresses are the yearly celebration of smart and safe mobility: they underline the importance of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), particularly in cities and regions where they are hosted, and are important channels to raise awareness of smart and safe mobility solutions among policy makers, experts and the general public.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Forecasting impacts of Connected and Automated Transport Systems

The network of thematic experts Vip4Ride organised with great success the 2nd International Conference which was held in Alexandroupolis, on 14-15 October, under the theme: “Intermodal Transports: Innovations in Planning, Management, Business Development & Decision Making” and focusing on the main economic advantages of developing intermodal transport, energy and tourism sectors. Special attention was given to decision making for investments and project financing in large infrastructures to promote intermodal options.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations:

•  Impact of driver feedback on behavior and safety through a smartphone application
•  Investigating gaps in electromobility: The case of Region of Attica
•  Testing a mobile routing application focusing on usability and user experience

iRAP in cooperation with the Regional Road Safety Observatories in Africa (ARSO), Asia-Pacific (APRSO), Ibero-America (OISEVI), Europe (ERSO) and West Balkans (WBRSO), organised with great success the 2021 iRAP Innovation Workshop which was held online, on 7 and 14 October. The Workshop took place under the theme “Data Driven Innovation to Halve Global Road Deaths by 2030” and it brought together global innovation, policy, technical and road safety leaders, along with investment experts, with the capacity to implement change and eliminate high-risk roads. 

The Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) organised with great success a Symposium titled: “Implementing evidence-based road safety measures, removing barriers and enhancing public support“, which was held online, on 14 October 2021. The Symposium had three presentations on vulnerable road users, speed and road safety management. Practitioners and decision makers who have been successful in implementing effective but sometimes controversial road safety measures shared their experiences.  The symposium was a prelude to a physical conference on the same topic that will held in the autumn of 2022. 

ERTICO,  ITS Asia-Pasific and ITS America co-organised the 27th ITS World Congress which was held in Hamburg, on 11-15 October 2021, under the theme: “Experience Future Mobility Now”. ITS World Congress is the forum to make meaningful connections, experience inventive conference program presented by industry experts, and see cutting-edge technology in the Exhibit Hall. ITS World Congress allows the smart mobility community to come together to explore the deployment of intelligent transportation technologies that saves lives, improves mobility, promotes sustainability, and increases efficiency and productivity.​ 

The European Platform of Transport Sciences (EPTS) organised with great success the 19th European Trasnport Conference which was held in Maribor, on 7-8 October 2021. The main themes of the Conference were smart urban traffic management for sustainable urban mobility and freight, digitalisation and automatization of urban mobility and freight, AI in mobility and logistics in urban areas and new organisational and business models for mobility and logistics. 

The Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft (AHG) together with the london School of Economics (LSE) organised with great success the Athens Urban Age Task Force-Sustainable Transport and Walkability Workshop, online, on October 1st 2021. The Workshop focused on key areas of urban intervention such as public spaces, access and walkability and urban greening.  NTUA contributed actively with the following presentation:

• Assessment of the Pilot Operation of the Athens Great Walk

The Horizon 2020 research project SHOW (SHared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption) organised with great success the 2nd Pan-European Workshop, titled “Which path for a meaningful, sustainable and feasible CCAM in Europe?”, which was held in Brussels and online, on 30 September 2021. In the workshop, speakers from European and national governmental bodies, industry, public authorities and academia shared concrete experiences from the SHOW project and other initiatives. 

The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in Greece organised with great success the 19th Corporate Responsibility Conference under the theme Citizen Sustain: Building a better urban future, which was held in Athens, on 30 September.  The Conference aimed at setting the post-pandemic urban scene from a human-centric perspective and at driving policy-changing discussions in an inclusive collaboration among state, city authorities, business, and civil society, will feature four areas of discussion.    

The Horizon 2020 research project SHOW organised with great success the Pre-Hackathon Workshop, which took place during the  ITS World Congress, in Hamburg, on 12 October. The aim of this Workshop was to develop innovative solutions to increase user acceptance and user benefit of automated mobility, focusing on human assistance stand-by in case of problems, adapting capacity to increase in demand in a flexible way and accessibility and assistance for persons with reduced mobility. 

The RADAR project within the framework of Interreg Danube Transnational Programme organised with great success the Final Conference under the theme: Striving for Safer Infrastructure for All Road Users in Danube Area, which was held in Slovenia and online, on 23 September.  Concluding the three and a half years of joint efforts in road safety methodologies, policy, and practice integration, the project comes to an end and this Conference was an opportunity to undeline the need to work towards the implementation of both the United Nations and European Commission goals on road safety.    NTUA contributed actively with the following presentation:

•  How to perform network-wide road safety assessments: creactive and proactive approaches

The Sao Paulo State Department of Traffic, together with Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) organised with great success the 1st Decade of Action for UN Road Safety Webinar, which was held online on 21 September. It was an interesting discussion on the advances and challenges of road safety and mobility in Greece, Colombia and Buenos Aires. NTUA Professor George Yannis contributed the following key note presentation: 

•  Road Safety in Greece – A decade of improvements

The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) organised with great success the 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) which was held in Indianapolis, on 19-22 September 2021. ITSC 2021 welcomed articles and presentations in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, conveying new developments in theory, analytical and numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, advanced deployment and case studies.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:

•  Towards Data Driven Traffic Modelling: Safe Driving Based on Reinforcement Learning

The Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics of Universita Degli Studi di Brescia, organised with great success the 25th Living and Walking in Cities Conference in Brescia, on 9-10 September 2021. The LWC International Conference traditionally deals with the topics of urban mobility and quality of life in urban areas, with a specific focus on vulnerable road users. The main areas and topics of the Conference were transport system and infrastructure, safe mobility for innovative cities and urban planning.  NTUA contributed actively with the following presentation:

•  Transport System & Infrastructure

The Association for European Transport organised with great success the 49th European Transport Conference which was held online, on 13-15 September. The ETC 2021 conference maintains its unique identity of a multidisciplinary, multi-seminar format but in an online environment and it will offer eight simultaneous seminars per day plus plenary sessions. Key conference themes explored this year included COVID-19 and the consequences, the Climate Emergency and Inclusion and Diversity.  

The 2020 International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury Europe Conference took place with great success online, on 8-10 September. The focus of IRCOBI was on the avoidance and reduction of the severity of traffic accidents, with special emphasis on advanced safety technologies and the biomechanics of injury. 

University of Aveiro organised with great success the 24th Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2021) which was held online, on 8-10 September 2021. The main goal of the Meeting was to share information and experiences of research activities, to encourage joint research and the development of theoretical methods and applications, to promote the cooperation among different institutions and organisations, leaders at national level in the field of traffic, transportation and logistic systems.

The Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH) co-organized with great success the “10th International Congress on Transportation Research” (ICTR 2021), which was held on 2-3 September, 2021, in Rhodes. The spotlight theme of the 2021 Congress was: “Future Mobility and Resilient Transport: Transition to innovation“.  NTUA contributed actively with the following 30 scientific papers and presentations:

•   Modelling the Safety Tolerance Zone: Recommendations from the i-DREAMS project (Young Researcher Best Road Safety Paper Award)
•   Impacts of autonomous transit services on urban networks: The case of Athens, Greece
•   Forecasting impacts of Connected and Automated Transport Systems within the Levitate project
•   Key Performance Indicators for safe fluid interactions within automated vehicles
•   Identifying KPIs for the safety assessment of autonomous vehicles through traffic microsimulation
•   Traffic impact assessment of the pilot implementation of Athens Great Walk
•   Traffic Impact Assessment of Innovative Traffic and Parking Measures in the Center of Athens
•   Analysis of traffic and parking characteristics in Athens
•   Lessons Learned from Bicycle Traffic Rules in OECD Countries
•   Investigating the acceptance of environmental parking charging and congestion charging in urban centers in Greece
•   Investigation of speeding and aggressive behavior of professional drivers on highways through an innovative smartphone application
•   Challenges, Opportunities and Constraints of Open Science in Transport Research
•   Clash of cultures in Greek traffic? What happens when a Southern European road safety culture is mixed with a Northern European road safety culture?
•   Fatigue among HGV drivers in Norway and Greece: examining the influence of national road safety culture
•   Development of the Road Safety Strategic Plan in Greece 2021-2030
•   Assessment of the evolution of road safety in Greece
•   A Common Methodology for the Collection of Key Performance Indicators for Road Safety in the EU
•   Action Plan for promoting electromobility in the Region of Attica
•   Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis for Electromobility in the Region of Attica
•   A four-country comparative overview of the impact of COVID-19 on traffic safety behavior
•   Best practice for safe roads around schools
•   Urban Planning Standards and transportation planning
•   Design Considerations of Compound Alignments Resulting from Visibility Restrictions by Median Jersey Barriers
•   Feasibility study of pedestrian bridge construction in urban arterials in Athens
•   Investigation of factors affecting serious crash injuries in Europe
•   Public opinion on Flying Autonomous Vehicles in Greece: a stated preference approach
•   Public opinion on e-scooters in Athens: a stated preference approach
•   The impact of weather conditions and driver characteristics on road safety
•   What is the area of influence of a vehicle on the road? Theoretical Aspects and Some empirical Findings
•   Comparative Investigation of Road Accident Cost in The European Union
•  Forecasting and backcasting of Connected-Automated Vehicle impacts using multiple methodological inputs

The Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) and La Prévention Routière Internationale (PRI) in partnership with the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) and Desjardins, organised with great success the 2020 Joint Conference which was held online on 22-25 August 2021. The theme of the conference was “Equitability: Road Safety for all through Vision Zero and Sustainable Safety” and it  integrated two events, the 30th CARSP Conference and the 14th PRI World Congress. Equitability was chosen to highlight the need for “road safety for all” across road users, while road safety deficiencies are experienced universally. This year’s conference offered the Students Paper Competition, the Vehicle Safety Enhancement Special Student Award and the Student Poster Competition whereby students presented their work on a road safety topic. 

The 33rd ICTCT Conference was held online, on 28-29 October under the theme: Paving the way to safer active urban mobility—challenges and opportunities. Among other topics, the Conference included two special sessions titled: Processing of traffic safety relevant data: data generation, data fusion, data enhancement and Surrogate measures of safety.   

The Faculty of Social Sciences at Bar-Ilan University organised with great success the 29 Annual Conference of the Research Institute of Human Factors Road Safety which was held online, on 8 July 2021. Experts from all over the world discussed the latest experiences and developments in road safety, with emphasis on the pandemic effect on road crashes.  NTUA contributed actively with the following presentations: 

•  Road Safety in Greece A success story?  (key-note presentation)
•  Key factors of COVID-19 impact on mobility and safety

The Association of Young Local Authorities (ENA) in collaboration with the Road Safety Institute “Panos Mylonas” (RSI), organised with great success a Conference titled “Road Safety in Greek islands“, which was held online, on 23 June 2021. The Conference was opened by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Yannis Kefalogiannis, who referred to the National Action Plan on Road Safety and pointed out the important distinctions of Greece in this field. In addition, Mr. Panagiotis Papantoniou (President of the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers), Mrs. Amalia Polydoropoulou (Professor of the University of the Aegean), Mr. Vangelis Makris (Collaborator of the IOAS “Panos Mylonas”), Mr. Giannis Themelaros (Deputy Regional Minister of Transport and Communications of Dodecanese) and Mr. George Karamanolis (CTO / CIO Co-Founder of Crowdpolic), participated in the event. The Conference focused on the effort to reduce road accidents for the safety of inhabitants and tourists of the greek islands. 

The Loughborough University hosted with great success the 53rd Annual UTSG Conference, which was held online, on 5-6 July. It was an annual conference for staff, research students and other relative newcomers to transport research of member institutions and overseas universities, which was designed to discuss research needs, research in progress, and to give research students the opportunity to present papers on their work.  

The Technical Chamber of Greece organised with great success the Green Deal Greece 2021 Conference, which was held in Athens, on June 29, 2021. The theme of the Conference was “2020-2030: a decade of a green revolution” and it focused on the opportunities and the challenges that Greece has to face regarding the European Green Deal.     NTUA contributed actively with the following presentation: 

•  Electrobility, Sustainable mobility, Green transport

The Transportation Public Health Link (TPH Link) organised with great success the International Conference on Transport & Health (ICTH) which was held online, on 14-30 June. ICTH provided valuable insights into the health impacts of transport and urban planning, governance, strategic management, policy-making, performance metric tools and the potential return on investment of a dynamic system. 

The UK Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) organised with great success the PACTS Conference: Safe and healthy travel, which was held online, on 29 June 2021.  The Conference was supported by the Department for Transport and Highways England and focused on Vision Zero, active travel,  micro-mobility, speed and infrastructure.   NTUA Professor George Yannis contributed the following key note presentation: 

•  Road Safety in Greece on the way to Vision Zero

The International Transport Forum (ITF) together with the Swedish Transport Administration, VTI, the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), and the motorcycle manufacturers associations (IMMA and ACEM) organised with great success the “Motorcyclists Safety Workshop: Riding in a Safe System” which was held online on 9-23 June. It was a follow-up to the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety and focused on the nine recommendations of the Academic Expert Group and their application to motorcyclists’ safety.  

Τhe European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) organised with great success the LEARN! Manual Webinar, which was held online, on 23 June. The LEARN! Manual is a handbook for developing and evaluating activities and programmes for traffic safety and mobility education. It sets out recommendations, criteria and guidance to develop and implement sound educational activities in an accessible way. This webinar presented the LEARN! Manual, and showed how its different steps can be applied in practice through examples from across Europe.

The Horizon 2020 projects BeOpen (European forum and Observatory for open science in transport) and OSCAR (Open ScienCe Aeronautic & Air Transport Research) co-organised with great success the “BE OPEN meets OSCAR: Open Science Collaboration” joint workshop, which was held online, on 16 June 2021. The event focused on providing general guidelines for Open Science promotion, regulatory schemes for Open Science operationalization and presenting interactive tools for enhancing Open Science collaboration amongst transport stakeholders.   NTUA contributed actively with the following presentation:  European Code of Conduct of Open Science in Transport

The 7th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) took place virtually with great success, on 19-22 June, 2021.  The theme of the congress was “Towards Precision Neurology”. Latest best practices in neurology was discussed, including cognitive impairment role in fitness to drive.  NTUA contributed actively with the following presentation:  Alzheimer’s Dementia and predictors of Driving Cessation: Results from a 4-year Longitudinal Study

The RADAR project within the framework of Interreg Danube Transnational Programme, organised on 15 June 2021 the 6th Road Safety Expert Group online Meeting with focus on road infrastructure safety management. Key experts contributed into a vivid discussion on the challenges and opportunities brought by the new EU Directive on road infrastructure safety management.    NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:   Network-wide Road Safety Assessment

Urbanism Next, New Urban Mobility alliance (NUMO),  POLIS, TNO, Gemeente Rotterdam, and Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management organised with great success the Urbanism Next Europe which took place online on 9-11 June 2021. The sessions at Urbanism Next Europe featured in-depth presentations exploring how technological, societal and economic mobility trends will change land use, urban design, transport, real estate, environment, equity,  health, economy and governance. The conference gathered 350 decision-makers and urban professionals from Europe and beyond. 

The RADAR project team organised with great success the 5th Road Safety Expert Group (RSEG) Meeting, which was held online, on 27 May 2021, under the theme: “Transport Safety and COVID-19“. There is a reasonable threat that investments in road infrastructure safety will be largely affected by the covid-19 and will shrink already small budgets dedicated to road infrastructure safety. Improving road infrastructure safety in the Danube area in this critical time requires action to demonstrate by facts the real impact of the pandemic outbreak on road safety.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  COVID-19 impact on mobility and safety