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Mediator Horizon 2020 project MEDIATOR concluded 3 July 2023 After four years of conducting research and creating innovations, the final review meeting of the EU-funded MEDIATOR project took place in Brussels on 15 June.
podcast boyle SWOV podcast #9: Human vs machine 20 June 2023 Canmanie Ponnambalam podcast talks to human factors expert Linda Boyle about understanding human behavior to safely integrate automation into our transportation systems.
logo TRENDLINE TRENDLINE: Continuation and refinement of data collection for safety indicators 20 June 2023 With the EU project TRENDLINE - which is led by SWOV - 29 European countries will collect so-called risk indicators for road safety, also known as Key Performance Indicators or KPIs. The predecessor of TRENDLINE was the European project BASELINE.
Transportation Research Assessment of the cooperation between driver and vehicle automation: A framework rj.jpg Dr Reinier Jansen 8 June 2023 SWOV researcher Jansen coauthored the article 'Assessment of the cooperation between driver and vehicle automation: A framework' in the journal Transportation Research.
New SWOV fact sheet: Safe roadsides 16 May 2023 The SWOV fact sheet series has been expanded to include a factsheet on 'Safe roadsides'.
Mediator groepsfoto MEDIATOR project results presented at final event 2 May 2023 On the 13th of April the Final Event of the MEDIATOR project took place at The Hague Public Transport Museum. The final event highlighted the project results and panel discussions explored the (scientific) opportunities and challenges of automated driving.
Weg met auto donkere wolken Number of traffic fatalities increased by 155 to 737 in 2022 18 April 2023 With 737 road deaths in 2022, as announced by Statistics Netherlands on April 18, the Netherlands will be back at the pre-2009 level.
registratie van verkeersdoden Road death registration in the Netherlands; Comparing the different source files 14 April 2023 SWOV researched the similarities and differences between data on the official number of road deaths (determined by Statistics Netherlands (CBS)) on the one hand, and data of crash registration BRON (based on the police registration and processed by Rijkswaterstaat) on the other. 
Oratie Nicole van Nes Inaugural lecture prof. Nicole van Nes: Human factors should be given more importance in the development of self-driving vehicles. 13 April 2023 In her inaugural lecture, "Who's in the driver's seat?" as professor of "Human Centered Design for Smart Mobility" Nicole van Nes argues that designers should  "be in the driver's seat".
ETSC_motorrijders ETSC: ‘Make Anti-lock Braking Systems (ABS) mandatory on all new motorcycles’ 30 March 2023 In a newly published report, the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) calls on the European Union and European national governments to make anti-lock braking systems (ABS) mandatory on all new motorcycles, including those under 125cc.