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Objective

Road telematics and driver assistance systems can constitute a real opportunity to support mobility and to improve road safety. Nevertheless, it is necessary to conceive them according to users' needs and requirements, in order to ensure their acceptability and to detect potential harmful effects of their widespread use. Human factors and cognitive engineering competencies exist in Europe but are scattered. For addressing this fragmentation of research capacities, HUMANIST gathers the most relevant European research institutes involved in Road Safety and Transport to contribute to the eSafety initiative and to improve road safety by promoting human centred design for IVIS and ADAS.

This integration will allow us to increase Societal Benefits of ITS implementation, to harmonise ITS approaches among State Members, to react quickly to any new technological developments and to face international challenges by producing state of the art research, identifying knowledge gaps, avoiding redundancy of research activities. The goal of HUMANIST is to create a European Virtual Centre of Excellence on HUMAN centred design for Information Society Technologies applied to Road Transport (IVIS and ADAS), with a coherent joint program of activities, gathering research, integrating and spreading activities. Integrating Activities will permit us to manage and to consolidate the NoE structure by promoting the mobility of researchers, by optimising the pool of existing experimental infrastructures, by setting up electronic tools (common database, web-conference, e-learning) for knowledge sharing.

Spreading Activities will allow us to spread widely the knowledge from HUMANIST, by organising debates with RTD projects on eSafety and relevant stakeholders, by promoting harmonisation with standardisation and pre-normative bodies, by setting up training programmes, and by promoting and disseminating research results to a wide audience. HUMANIST is sponsored and supported by ECTRI and FERSI networks.

Programme(s)

FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

IST-2002-2.3.1.10 - eSafety of road and air transports

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NoE - Network of Excellence

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EUROPE RECHERCHE TRANSPORT

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BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR DE VERKEERSVEILIGHEID VZW

Belgium

BUNDESANSTALT FUER STRASSENWESEN

Germany

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

Greece

CENTRUM DOPRAVNIHO VYZKUMU

Czechia

DANISH TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Denmark

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.

Germany

EURISCO INTERNATIONAL

France

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

Belgium

FACTUM CHALOUPKA & RISSER OHG

Austria

FACULDADE DE MOTRICIDADE HUMANA

Portugal

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT FUER ARBEITSPHYSIOLOGIE UND ARBEITSSCHUTZ E.V.

Germany

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LES TRANSPORTS ET LEUR SECURITE

France

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Greece

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Greece

NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TNO

Netherlands

STATENS VAEG- OCH TRANSPORTFORSKNINGSINSTITUTET

Sweden

SWOV INSTITUTE FOR ROAD SAFETY RESEARCH

Netherlands

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ

Germany

TRANSPORTOEKONOMISK INSTITUTT STIFTELSEN NORSK SENTER FOR SAMFERDSELSFORSKNING

Norway

TRL LIMITED

United Kingdom

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID

Spain

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA

Italy

VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS

Finland

Project information

HUMANIST

Grant agreement ID: 507420

Project website

Start date

1 March 2004
End date

29 February 2008

Funded under:

FP6-IST

Overall budget:

€ 5 360 000
EU contribution

€ 5 360 000

Coordinated by:

EUROPE RECHERCHE TRANSPORT

France

Project information

HUMANIST

Grant agreement ID: 507420

Project website

Start date

1 March 2004
End date

29 February 2008

Funded under:

FP6-IST

Overall budget:

€ 5 360 000
EU contribution

€ 5 360 000

Coordinated by:

EUROPE RECHERCHE TRANSPORT

Deliverables

Deliverables not available

Publications

Publications not available

Exploitable Results

Driver behaviour in intelligent transport systems

The research areas covered by the Humanist Network of excellence (NoE) are dealing with the identification of the driver needs in relation to Intelligent transportation systems (ITS), evaluation of ITS potential benefits, joint-cognitive models of driver-vehicle-environment for user-centred design, impact analysis of ITS on driving behaviour, development of innovative methodologies to evaluate ITS safety and usability, driver education and training for ITS use and use of ITS to train and to educate drivers. This set of research areas were complementary and allowed to cover the knowledge required to investigate all the various aspects of human-centred design. A set of 'integrating activities' was created in order to manage and to consolidate the NoE research structure: - by promoting the mobility of researchers inside the network; - by optimising the pool of existing experimental infrastructures through sharing; - by setting up an electronic internal network in order to share easily and quickly the knowledge inside the network (forum, web-conference, common database) and in order to set up e-learning initiatives. A set of 'spreading activities' has been created in order to spread widely the knowledge from the NoE towards the relevant stakeholders: - by organising debates and transfer of knowledge through identified activities with other FP6 projects on eSafety and relevant stakeholders and by promoting harmonisation with other networks as standardisation and pre-normative bodies; - by setting up training programmes towards European students and young researchers in the area in addition to professionals of industries, governmental bodies and other organisations in the automotive domain; - by promoting and disseminating concepts, activities and results of the NoE to a wide audience. Out of the scientific outcomes of Humanist project, it is possible to highlight valuable outputs such as: - a edited book on 'Modelling driver behaviour in automotive environments: Critical issues in driver interactions with intelligent transport systems', - a matrix of methods for the assessment of Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and In-vehicle information system (IVIS), - a multimedia tool for the training of drivers on ITS use, - a software for the analysis of traces of activity for cognitive modeling of the car driver, called 'Abstract'.

Project information

HUMANIST

Grant agreement ID: 507420

Project website

Start date

1 March 2004
End date

29 February 2008

Funded under:

FP6-IST

Overall budget:

€ 5 360 000
EU contribution

€ 5 360 000

Coordinated by:

EUROPE RECHERCHE TRANSPORT

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Last update: 10 December 2007

Record number: 71266

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