HUMAN centred design for Information Society Technologies

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.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases
• social sciences › social geography › transport
• social sciences › psychology › ergonomics

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

Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

NoE - Network of Excellence

Coordinator

EUROPE RECHERCHE TRANSPORT

Address

2, Avenue Du General Malleret-joinville
94110 Arcueil
France

Participants (23)

BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR DE VERKEERSVEILIGHEID VZW

Belgium

Address

Haachtsesteenweg 1405
1130 Brussel

BUNDESANSTALT FUER STRASSENWESEN

Germany

Address

Bruederstrasse 53
51427 Bergisch Gladbach

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

Greece

Address

6th Km Charilaou-thermi Road
57001 Thermi-thessaloniki

CENTRUM DOPRAVNIHO VYZKUMU

Czechia

Address

Lisenska 33a
636 00 Brno

DANISH TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Denmark

Address

Knuth-winterfeldts Alle 116 Building West
2800 Lyngby

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.

Germany

Address

Linder Hohe
51147 Koeln

EURISCO INTERNATIONAL

France

Address

Avenue Edouard Belin 4
31400 Toulouse

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

Belgium

Address

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1049 Brussels

FACTUM CHALOUPKA & RISSER OHG

Austria

Address

Danhausergasse 6/8
1040 Wien

FACULDADE DE MOTRICIDADE HUMANA

Portugal

Address

Estrada Da Costa
1495-688 Cruz Quebrada Dafundo

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT FUER ARBEITSPHYSIOLOGIE UND ARBEITSSCHUTZ E.V.

Germany

Address

Ardeystrasse 67
44139 Dortmund

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LES TRANSPORTS ET LEUR SECURITE

France

Address

2, Avenue Du General Malleret-joinville
94114 Arcueil

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Greece

Address

Patission Street 42
10682 Athens

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Greece

Address

9, Heroon Polytechniou Str.
15773 Athens

NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TNO

Netherlands

Address

Schoemaker Straat 97
6060 Delft

Links

STATENS VAEG- OCH TRANSPORTFORSKNINGSINSTITUTET

Sweden

Address

Olaus Magnus Vaeg 35
581 95 Linkoeping

SWOV INSTITUTE FOR ROAD SAFETY RESEARCH

Netherlands

Address

Duindoorn 32
2260 AR Leidschendam

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ

Germany

Address

Strasse Der Nationen 62
09107 Chemnitz

TRANSPORTOEKONOMISK INSTITUTT STIFTELSEN NORSK SENTER FOR SAMFERDSELSFORSKNING

Norway

Address

Grensesvingen 7
0661 Oslo

TRL LIMITED

United Kingdom

Address

Crowthorne House Nine Mile Ride
RG40 3GA Wokingham Berkshire

Links

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID

Spain

Address

Avenida Ramiro De Maeztu 7
28040 Madrid

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA

Italy

Address

Via Universita 4
41100 Modena

VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS

Finland

Address

02044 Vtt