1st International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention: (DDI 2009), September 28-29, 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden: Program, presentations and reviewed papers

It has been estimated that up to 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involve inattention as a contributing factor, and that distraction is a factor in about a quarter of these. Distraction and inattention are therefore significant road safety problems, around the world. The contribution of distraction as a factor in road trauma is likely to increase as more distractions, inside and outside the vehicle, compete for driver attention. Simultaneously as the role of distraction and inattention in traffic safety is becoming clearer, there is an intensified development of countermeasures, and an intensified focus on the fundamental science of attention in modern neuroscience research. This conference aims to bring together stakeholders from these different fields. Driver distraction and inattention are complex, multi-dimensional, problems. Consequently, management of them requires concerted action by multiple stakeholders - vehicle designers, traffic engineers, road and transport safety authorities, the police, the media, motoring clubs, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, standards organizations, road safety bodies, driver trainers, academics and others. This international conference, the first to focus on these issues, comes at a critical time, when many stakeholders are only just beginning to recognize the importance of distraction and inattention as transport safety issues. The conference aims to bring participants up-to date on recent developments in the field, to bring into the spotlight developments in research from neighbouring disciplines that have an important bearing on the problem, and to showcase new and emerging technologies, products and other countermeasures which have significant potential to prevent or mitigate distraction and inattention. It will be a key event for anyone working on these topics.

• Record URL:
  https://www.saferresearch.com/index.php/DDI2009
• Corporate Authors:

  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  Göteborg,   Sweden  SE-412 96

  SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre, Sweden

  ,   Sweden 

  INRETS - ARCUEIL, FRANCE

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• Conference:
  • 1st International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI 2009)
  • Location: Gothenburg , Sweden
  • Date: 2009-9-28 to 2009-9-29
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web

Subject/Index Terms

• ITRD Terms: 2238: Attention; 9001: Behaviour; 2237: Distraction; 1772: Driver; 1855: Driving (veh); 2257: Human factor
• Subject Areas: I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01580458
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD, VTI
• Created Date: Nov 6 2015 9:59AM