Conference topics

The Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  • Human factors of innovative, intermodal transport, and urban mobility planning
    • Human factors in planning and design of traffic and mobility concepts (e.g., user needs, traffic and mobility as a socio-technical system, service concepts and design) 
    • Innovation and optimisation of intermodal mobility (e.g. digital networking, smart cities / communities, connectivity within and between urban and rural spaces, pilot projects, human aspects of transportation resilience) 
    • Contributions of human factors in urban/spatial planning and land use (e.g. pop-up bike lanes; allocation of space to traffic; superblock concepts, rest areas, promoting active mobility, city of short distances)
  • User experience and acceptance in designing future mobility
    • Usability, user experience, attractiveness, safety, comfort, trust, user acceptance, social acceptance in/of transport services and mobility (e.g. in micro mobility, pedestrian and bicycle transport, public transport, automated driving, etc.)
    • Analysis of (potential) user groups
    • Mobility as a factor for individual, social and community well-being; Accessibility and social inclusiveness
    • Impact of culture on human behaviour in traffic
  • Traffic and mobility education, training and fitness
    • Education and training in the context of a growing range of innovative traffic and mobility offers, new transport regulations and legal frameworks
    • (New) professionals in mobility – (new) tasks and training
    • Development, loss, training of skills and capabilities; fitness assessment; re-skilling and up-skilling
    • Education and creation of awareness regarding (sustainability of) future traffic scenarios
  • Interaction, cooperation and communication: implications for safety and ergonomics
    • Interactions of vehicles-VRU–infrastructure, traffic behaviour analytics and models, influence of regulations and systems design
    • Human-machine interface (design, communication, concepts, derivation of design principles/guidelines, standardization)
    • Traffic safety and ergonomics
    • Remote Operation (analysis and concepts, organisation and distribution of tasks, workplace design, etc.)
    • Automation and connectivity in mobility systems, new functions, roles and regulations; concepts for distribution of tasks and suitable degrees of automation
  • Methods & Tools
    • Development of methods and tools for human factors data acquisition (e.g. measurement of real-world behaviour, simulators for vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, VR / AR, walking Interviews, online studies, fast and frugal methods, etc.)
    • Participatory design, tools for including stakeholders in the design process; Measuring public support for new policy measures, interventions, behavioural change etc.
    • Modelling approaches, evaluation and analysis methods
    • Methodological aspects of current social developments