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.
Field of science
- /social sciences/social and economic geography/transport
- /social sciences/sociology/industrial relations/automation
- /social sciences/psychology/behavioural psychology
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks
Coordinator
41296 Goeteborg
Sweden
Participants (5)
LS2 9JT Leeds
405 30 Goeteborg
89081 Ulm
80333 Muenchen
2628 CN Delft