Christian-Nils Åkerberg Boda

TL;DR: The SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden as discussed by the authors is a joint research unit where 25 partners from the Swedish automotive industry, academia and authorities cooperate to make a center of excellence within the field of vehicle and traffic safety (see www.chalmers.se/safer ).

TL;DR: The paper demonstrates how counterfactual simulations can be used to perform sensitivity analyses on parameter settings, both for driver behavior and ISS algorithms, and evaluates the effect of the choice of glance distribution in the driver behavior model on the safety benefit estimation.

TL;DR: A mathematical model, based on both experiments, is proposed to characterize driver braking behaviour in response to bicyclists crossing at intersections, which has direct implications on what variables an in-vehicle safety system should consider and how tests in evaluation programs should be designed.

TL;DR: This study is the first to analyze driver behavior when overtaking pedestrians, based on field test and naturalistic driving data, and suggests that pedestrian safety is particularly endangered in situations when the pedestrian is walking opposite to traffic, close to the lane, and when oncoming traffic is present.

TL;DR: Results from this experiment show that cooperative applications based on smartphones and connecting bicycles and cars are feasible and desirable, however present limitations on positioning and latency strongly limit their reliability.