🚦New publication alert! "Interpreting pedestrians' head movements when encountering automated vehicles at a virtual crossroad" by Yue Yang, Yee Mun Lee, Ruth Madigan, Albert Solernou, & NatashaMerat. Key findings 👇 Full text: doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.…

You can still register for the 3rd Human-Centered VRU Simulation Workshop. Please see the programme and registration information below. uolds.leeds.ac.uk/news/3rd-vru-w… Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds

This week marks 30 years since Virtuocity's first driving simulator study. 🚘 The refurbished simulator will be relaunched this week at a celebratory event. Find out more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5…

Exciting opportunity for international collaboration. Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds and Human Factors and Safety team @ITSLeeds would be happy to support colleagues interested in this call. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are looking forward to hosting the 20th International Road Safety on Five Continents conference #RS5C2025 in collaboration with VTI next year! Call for Abstracts opens on September 2, 2024. Save the date: 🔗vti.se/en/rs5c 🔗environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/6…

We are really looking forward to the DDI2024, where we will have a number of presentations from team members, as well as a keynote from NatashaMerat. Hope to see you there! - ddi2024.org

🚗 Just published! Discover how emotionality and private self-consciousness influence cognitive appraisal in anger-provoking driving situations. Our study, focusing on Chinese drivers, reveals key insights: doi.org/10.1080/233119…

📢New publication alert Happy to announce the release of our new paper, "Investigating the Relationship Between Mood and Driver Behaviors: Mediating Roles of Perceived Stress and Driving Anger". doi.org/10.1024/2673-8…

🚗 New publication⚠️ "User evaluation of comfortable deceleration profiles for highly automated driving: Findings from a test track study" doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.…

Would you like to help us understand and improve road safety in West Yorkshire? We invite you to take part in our upcoming focus group to discuss road safety issues and brainstorm solutions. We aim to explore road safety issues, identify challenges faced by different road users.

It is well known that young novice drivers have a higher risk of being involved in a crash. With Ruth Madigan, we will work on a tool to improve hazard anticipation skills, thanks to the support of The Road Safety Trust. Human Factors and Safety team Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds, Virtuocity | University of Leeds, @ITSLeeds, Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds

Our team is working on a new project to improve young drivers' ability to anticipate hazards. Congratulations to Ruth Madigan for leading this impactful project, and good luck to the team (İbrahim Öztürk, J. García de Pedro, Virtuocity | University of Leeds).

💡New publication: Using driver monitoring to estimate readiness in automation: a conceptual model based on simulator experimental data by Rafael C. Gonçalves, Courtney Goodridge, Jonny Kuo, Mike Lenné, & NatashaMerat. doi.org/10.1007/s10111…

We had the pleasure of welcoming Toshiya Hirose from Shibaura Institute of Technology back to Virtuocity | University of Leeds today with some of his students.

Human Factors and Safety team @ITSLeeds Ruth Madigan Yee Mun Lee NatashaMerat Manuscript released from #wrro eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/205140/ #OpenAccess