The cooperation between TRC and Volpe is based on a governmental Memorandum of Understanding MOU between The Netherlands and the USA. A special agreement is laid down in a Letter of Intent between TRC and Volpe. This Letter of Intent desires to establish a mutually advantageous relationship in transportation research. This workshop is part of those joint activities. Meetings were held on 19, 20 and 21 April at the TRC building in Rotterdam. The parties involved were besides TRC and Volpe, the SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, Centre for Environmental and traffic Psychology COV University of Groningen, Traffic Test and the Directorate-General for Passenger Transport of the Ministry of Transport. Each party gave at least one presentation of current or recent research. On the basis of three days presentations and discussions the following suggestions were made. Within the framework of the US crash avoidance scenario and the accompanied human factors approach, subjects of mutual interest and possibilities for joint projects are proposed in the following fields: (i) Exposure and Risk (availability of exposure data by surveys of traffic and travellers; induced exposure combination of methods; exposure dissaggregations; exposure to risk (passenger km or encounters, etc.); own and others risk (risks to third parties); availability of data in EU and in USA; comparability between countries, e.g. The Netherlands and USA corridor risk assessment); (ii) Geographic Information Systems GIS; (iii) Data-mining; and (iv) Intelligent Cruise Control ICC. (A)
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