Project description
Paving a pedestrian-safe way for self-driving cars
Walking is great for our health and the environment, but it can be dangerous. In Europe, nearly a quarter (21 %) of all fatally injured road users are pedestrians. In cities, it is almost a third. While measures to improve vehicle and road user safety as well as transport infrastructure (like intersections and crosswalks) is underway, experts are already planning for when autonomous vehicles (AVs) hit Europe’s tricky-to-navigate city roads. The EU-funded Shape-IT project aims to facilitate the safe integration of AVs into tomorrow’s mixed urban traffic environments, using both existing and new research methods. It will design advanced interfaces and control strategies and integrate knowledge on human/AV interactions into models to perform safety assessments.
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MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinator
412 96 Goteborg
Sweden
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Participants (5)
LS2 9JT Leeds
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405 30 Goeteborg
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89081 Ulm
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80333 Muenchen
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2628 CN Delft
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