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The aim of this project is to study the impact of environmental or behavioural factors on the speed actually practised by motorists. It is based on the analysis of natural driving data collected in Europe as part of the UDRIVE project (45,000 hours, 2,000,000 km, 196 drivers). The first stage will be to characterise deviations from the maximum authorised speed (VMA). The second stage will identify the factors (in the vehicle's environment) that determine the speed usually practised in a given set of circumstances. The third stage will be to identify typical scenarios involving deviations from the usual speed, i.e. unusual speeds. These scenarios will make it possible to issue recommendations, either for more targeted driver information, or for operators to adapt VMAs in certain situations (which could be useful for ISAs).
Coordination: Clément Val (CEESAR)
Partner: Lescot
Dates: 19/10/2023 - 18/10/2025
Project funder: DSR
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- Characterisation of speeding
- Identification of factors explaining the occurrence of speeding
- Identification of recurrent speeding scenarios
People involved in LESCOT: Héléne Tattegrain
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Coordination: Caroline Pigeon
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People involved in LESCOT: Caroline Pigeon
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The development of highly automated vehicles raises the question of the ability of operators to take back control (REM) of the vehicle in complete safety when the situation requires it. By freeing up time to carry out on-board tasks unrelated to driving, the use of automated vehicles will create situations of inattention to driving, implying a deterioration in the situational awareness necessary for proper recovery. This project will help to identify the determinants of human performance in REM situations, depending on the on-board tasks performed. The aim will be to identify physiological monitoring indicators that can be used to characterise certain attentional states (attentional capture, cognitive load) that are more detailed than the level of vigilance or distraction and are difficult to capture using camera vision. To this end, a neuroergonomic approach will be adopted, ranging from the fundamental to the applied, and including subjective (individual characteristics), behavioural (reaction time, REM time, driving behaviour) and physiological (e.g. cardiac, respiratory, electrodermal and electroencephalographic measurements) measurements.
Coordination: Christophe Jallais
Partner: STELLANTIS
Dates: 01/11/2023 - 30/09/2027
Project funder: STELLANTIS
Laboratory involvement: Supervision of a thesis
People involved in LESCOT: Christophe Jallais, Yannick Lavril, Alexandra Fort
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To date, the assessment of the fitness to drive of people suffering from epilepsy is, in most cases, based on a medical assessment. Doctors, particularly registered doctors, sometimes find it difficult to give a medical opinion on the fitness to drive of these patients, as the impact of cognitive impairment on driving in this population is poorly documented. In addition, the literature highlights the need for prospective studies using driving simulators to examine the impact of epileptic disorders on driving. In addition to a medical assessment (e.g. cognitive tests, electroencephalographic (EEG) examination), the use of a driving simulator simultaneously with a measurement of neuronal activity would make it possible to analyse in detail the effects of EEG abnormalities on driving behaviour (Chen et al., 2014).
The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the impact of epileptic disorders on driving behaviour during a simulated driving situation.
In terms of economic and social impact, this research will provide additional information to approved doctors to enable them to give a more 'informed' opinion on the fitness to drive of patients suffering from epilepsy. In terms of road safety, this research will provide a better understanding of the driving behaviour of epileptic patients and of the role of clinical, cognitive and behavioural factors in this behaviour.
Coordination: Maud RANCHET
Partner: Institut La Teppe (Cécile SABOURDY, Emeline FOUR)
Dates: 16/09/2022 - 16/08/2025
Project funder: Road Safety Delegation (DSR)
Laboratory involvement:
- Literature review
- Implementation of the evaluation protocol on a driving simulator
- Analysis and evaluation of results
People involved in LESCOT: Maud RANCHET, Lucile GUILLERMIER, Laurence PAIRE-FICOUT
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The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of the SIROCCO programme on cortical activity in several brain regions and on walking performance, as well as on quality of life, mobility and social participation. These effects will be studied after the programme and at a distance, one year later.
Coordination: Maud RANCHET, Maxime CHEMINON, Teodor DANAILA
Partners: Maxime CHEMINON, Teodor DANAILA, Jacques LUAUTE
Dates: 01/07/2022 - 31/07/2025
Project funder: Neurodis Foundation
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- Setting up the protocol
- Analysis and exploitation of results
People involved in LESCOT: Maud RANCHET, Laurence PAIRE-FICOUT, Caroline PIGEON
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This project focuses on understanding new mobility situations by studying the behaviour of users of bicycles, scooters and gyro-wheels (EDP). The objectives include studying the dynamic capabilities of these vehicles, driving behaviour (speeds, acceleration, driving style, etc.) and the safety management strategies of EDPs. As part of this project, we are mapping (mobility zones, facilities) and characterising (nature, occurrence, factors, etc.) risk situations for these users. The new mobility situations are also being studied using virtual environments (thanks to a driving simulator, an immersive platform for vulnerable users and a pedestrian simulator), in order to take into account the behaviour of the EDP and that of other road users. The expected results concern both an understanding of cognitive processes and the determinants of risk in the situations studied involving DPE users. The spin-off applications will help to improve the safety of users of these new forms of mobility.
Coordination: Philippe Cabon,Université de Paris (LAPEA)
Partners: Université de Paris, Université Gustave Eiffel, Ergocentre, Movida
Dates: 01/12/2021 - 30/04/2025
Project funder: ANR
Laboratoires de l’UGE impliqués : LAPEA, LESCOT, LMA
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- Carrying out a study of risk situations involving the driving simulator and the immersive p
- Creation and implementation of scenarios involving high-risk situations
- Creation of urban bases for the simulator
- Analysis of behaviour and eye strategies during driving
- Risk assessment
People involved in LESCOT: Joceline ROGE, Daniel Ndiaye, Bertrand Richard, Bruno Piechnik
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The aim of this project is to take an anticipatory look at the safety of pedestrians during their future interactions with Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) when crossing the road. The aim is to develop a database of AV-pedestrian interaction scenarios on a simulation platform based on virtual reality. Using the 'V-HCD' (Virtual Human Centred Design) software tool developed at LESCOT for simulating autonomous driving, the project partners propose to interface this simulation environment with a Virtual Reality (VR) headset in order to study pedestrian-vehicle interactions, whether to explore the potential risks in terms of road safety, or to assess (1) pedestrians' decision-making strategies when crossing the road, (2) how they feel and, ultimately, (3) their level of acceptance of these future automated vehicles. The work carried out during this project will not only provide scientific results in terms of accident risks or difficulties likely to be encountered in the future by pedestrians when interacting with AVs, but will also provide input for a discussion with the DSR on the possibilities opened up by virtual reality for educational purposes to raise awareness of the road risks likely to be induced by AVs in the future, when they actually appear on the roads.
Coordination: UGE
Partners: Gaming Campus Lyon
Dates: 06/10/2022 - 05/10/2025
Project funder: DSR
Laboratory involvement:
- Virtual reality simulation to analyse pedestrian interaction with autonomous vehicles
- Development of the V-HCD (Virtual Human Centred Design) simulation platform
People involved in LESCOT: Thierry BELLET, Jean-Charles Bornard, Bertrand Richard
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The aims are to gain a better understanding of the factors that explain a return to driving in post-stroke patients and to study the effect of video feedback on awareness of driving ability following a driving situation on the road.
Resuming driving after a stroke is essential to ensure daily independence. To our knowledge, there are no recent data available on the rate of return to driving and the future of post-stroke drivers in France. There is also little research into the impact that a lack of awareness of impairment may have on the return to driving after a stroke (McKay et al. 2011, Klonoff et al. 2007). However, the link between impairment awareness and driving performance has been demonstrated in other populations (Paire-Ficout et al. 2018, 2020). The objectives of the RETROUVE project are to gain a better understanding of the factors that explain a return to driving in post-stroke patients and to study the effect of video feedback on these patients' awareness of their driving abilities, after a driving situation on the road.
Three studies will be carried out:
- A retrospective study to determine the recovery rate of post-stroke drivers at the Kerpape Mutualist Centre and the Henry Gabrielle Hospital
- A telephone survey to study what happens to these patients after their stroke
- An experimental study to examine the role of the disorder awareness variable in the process of returning to driving in post-stroke patients
The results should help professionals decide whether to stop or resume driving in these patients.
Coordination: Laurence PAIRE-FICOUT
Partners: CMRRF, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle
Dates: 08/11/2021 - 08/11/2024
Project funder: DSR
Laboratory involvement:
- Coordination
- Experimental design
- Testing
- Analysis
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Laurence PAIRE-FICOUT, Maud RANCHET, isabelle HOANG, Myriam EVENNOU, Clara GASNE
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In particular, the project will develop a digital twin that can be used to model the driver and occupants and thus customise remedies to keep the driver alert and prevent or neutralise stress. The Valéo teams will be supported in this project by its university partners (the G.Eiffel University and the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes) and industrial partners (the SMEs MyBRain Technologies and Core for Tech). On completion of the project, the consortium will be marketing intelligent sensors, a head-up display with augmented reality, "digital twins" and "fatigue" software, monitoring and labelling tools and a driver assistance platform.
Coordination: Christophe JALLAIS
Partners: CFT, MBT, Lutin Userlab, VALEO
Dates: 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2024
Project funder: BPI France
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- Experimental design
- Passages
- Analysis
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Christophe JALLAIS, Hélène TATTEGRAIN, Alexandra FORT, Fabien MOREAU, Florence MAZERES, Yannick LAVRIL
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The main objective of this project is therefore to estimate the short-term impact (in the hour following the journey) of exposure to pollutants emitted by road traffic during 'home-to-work' journeys on cognitive functions. Three modes of transport - the bicycle, the electric bicycle and the car - involving different exposures to TRAPs because of their respective positions on the traffic routes, exposure in the open air (bicycle) or in an enclosed space (car), and the level of physical effort (active, semi-active and passive respectively) will be studied. This project focuses on the effects of the usual levels of daily exposure of the general population during the home-work commute, taking maximum account of the inter-individual differences induced by the personal habits and living environments of the participants.
Coordination: Alexandra Fort
Partners: Aurélie Charron (UMRESTTE), Roy Harrison et Francis Pope (Birmingham University)
Dates: 01/10/2023 à 30/09/2026
Project funder: Université Gustave Eiffel
Laboratory involvement: Supervision of a thesis in cognitive neuroscience
People involved in LESCOT: Alexandra Fort, Ilann Mahou
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The aim of this project is to develop a protocol for assessing fitness to drive in order to guide doctors and the medical team in the delicate decision to continue or stop driving in patients with neurocognitive disorders. It also aims to study the effect of a support programme (ACCOMPAGNE programme) on awareness of driving difficulties.
In addition to a medical and neuropsychological assessment, evaluation on a driving simulator could help the doctor and the medical team to add to the clinical elements in order to provide a more precise opinion on whether or not it is possible to continue driving in complete safety. In addition, at the end of the programme, the driving simulator could enable us to measure the patient's awareness of his driving abilities. The aims of this study are 1) to develop a protocol for assessing driving ability on a driving station (mini-simulator) in order to study the performance of patients with CND and 2) to study the effect of the ACCOMPAGNE programme on awareness of driving ability. Patients with CTE and their carers will be seen at the memory consultation at the Charpennes geriatric hospital in Lyon. Eligible participants in this study will be divided into two groups: an experimental group of 30 people benefiting from the ACCOMPAGNE programme (Figure 1.1) and a control group of 30 people not participating in the programme (i.e. those who have received driving awareness training from their doctor (usual consultation). We expect that, at the end of the programme, the gap between objective performance (obtained from the mini-simulator) and subjective performance (self-reported questions) are reduced, reflecting greater awareness on the part of patients.
Coordination: Hospices civils de Lyon (CHU)
Partner: Hospices civils de Lyon (CHU)
Dates: 04/12/2019 - 30/11/2023
Project funder: DSR
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People involved in LESCOT: Maud Ranchet, Laurence Paire-Ficout
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This is a collaboration contract with the Charpennes hospital, the aim of which is to define the terms and conditions of collaboration between the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), more specifically the Charpennes hospital, and the Gustave Eiffel University as part of the ACCOMPAGNE project: Evaluation of a programme to support patients in preventing risks linked to the impact of cognitive disorders on driving in geriatric and neurological care.
Coordination: Hospices civils de Lyon (CHU)
Partner: Hospices civils de Lyon (CHU)
Dates: 02/08/2021 - 31/12/2023
Project funder: Hospital Nursing and Paramedical Research Programme (PHRIP)
People involved in LESCOT: Maud RANCHET, Laurence PAIRE-FICOUT
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The aim of this project is to adapt the material used to learn the Highway Code to meet the difficulties that some candidates, particularly deaf candidates, encounter in learning the Highway Code. The idea is to test the value of introducing video into this material to improve understanding of certain road safety concepts. From a theoretical point of view, the aim is to study the cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms involved in processing video material in order to explain why video is more effective than a static image for understanding a dynamic scene.
Coordination: Laurence Paire-Ficout
Partners: Jean-Michel Boucheix (LEAD, Université de Bourgogne)
Associated partners: « Ecart de conduite » driving School, ARIS France association
Dates: 20/11/2015 - 09/08/2019
Project funder: DSR
People involved in LESCOT: Sébastien Laurent (PhD), Antonio Hidalgo
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This IFSTTAR-Keolis collaboration, which involved 2 days of tests on the Transpolis test tracks and 6 days of in-use tests, has enabled progress objectives to be set in order to move the French and European industry forward in structured and rigorous approaches to the validation of driver assistance systems.
At the request of Keolis, Ifsttar proposed to carry out an ergonomic study to observe the activity of TCL bus drivers during the use of assistance systems to detect vulnerable road users. This project compared the ergonomics of two systems (Safety Front and Shield+). TCL buses equipped with these systems were driven on Transpolis lanes and six evaluation scenarios were carried out (turning left, turning right in the presence of pedestrians and cyclists, coming up against an obstacle, lane reversal by a cyclist) using mobile cyclist and pedestrian dummies. These tests were then supplemented by traffic tests in the Lyon metropolitan area.
Ergonomic observation and analysis methods were used to study the usefulness, usability and acceptability of the systems and to formulate recommendations for Keolis and the designers. The efficiency of the systems was also assessed by counting detections and qualifying them individually.
The evaluations of these systems came to the same conclusion: the objectives and functionalities of the two systems are understandable, but their usefulness during driving has not been proven. Recommendations have therefore been made to improve the reliability of the systems and to consider retesting systems with a higher level of reliability on Transpolis tracks.
Coordination: GABAUDE Catherine
Dates: 12/06/2019 - 28/02/2020
Project funder: KEOLIS LYON
Laboratory involvement:
- Ergonomic study
- Development of an on-board data collection system
People involved in LESCOT: Catherine Gabaude, Fabien Moreau, Romain Derollepot, Lucas Dufit
Objectives: Impact of urban air mobility on pedestrians.
Coordination: Judicaël Picaut
Partners: PICS-L (Fabrice Vienne), LAPEA (Valérie Gyselinck), LMA (Catherine Berthelon, Aurélie Banet), UMRESTTE (Anne-Sophie Evrard), MODIS (Patricia Champelovier)
Other partners: RATP, Bruitparif, ONERA, ADP, SYTRA
Dates: 16/12/2019 - 31/12/2020
Project funder: AIRBUS
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People involved in LESCOT: Thierry Bellet
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Since the NOTRe law (New Territorial Organisation of the Republic), the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region (AURA) has been responsible for school and interurban transport. The Auvergne Rhône Alpes region transports almost 250,000 pupils every day. The Territoires Et Transports Régionaux Interurbains et Scolaires (Territories and Regional Interurban and School Transport) department of the Region's Transport Directorate is looking into ways of improving safety in the broadest sense: road safety and security throughout its territory, particularly in rural areas, which are priority issues for the Regional Executive.
The Region is working to a fairly tight schedule for the start of the 2018-2019 school year and the preventive measures that could be put in place. For this new school year, it has produced a booklet to remind young people of the rules of safety and good conduct on school transport and is considering other "prevention tools". At the start of the 2019 school year, it plans to distribute a device that will make it easier for pupils to see the pedestrian route to the bus stop. In order to test the use of this object (before embarking on a larger-scale operation), the Region would like to carry out a test on part of the territory, located in the Ardèche department, a rural area. The subsidiary question concerns the choice of the object to be distributed. The choice fell on two different objects (an activatable object - a retro-reflective lamp with an LED that can be switched on at will by the pupil - and a passive object - a retro-reflective sticker that can be repositioned -) and the request was to determine which object was worn most by the pupils in the test area.
Paul Vidal, the regional councillor in charge of inter-urban and school transport, wants to base his decision on scientific results. To this end, the Region is requesting scientific support from IFSTTAR to carry out this evaluation of the use of the objects distributed by the secondary school pupils concerned.
This request falls within the scope of IFSTTAR's research themes, in particular Axis 1 "Efficient transport and safe travel", in its Objective 2 "Improving the safety and ergonomics of travel, for a serene mobility that respects human life". IFSTTAR was asked two questions: Are the objects used by students? Which object is used the most? In this context, IFSTTAR will not be answering the question of usefulness (does the object actually make pupils more visible?) but, upstream, the question of use (is the object worn by the pupil and, if so, where does its potential usefulness lie?).
Coordination: Marie-Axelle GRANIE
Dates: 01/07/2018 - 31/03/2019
Project funder: AURA Region
Laboratory involvement:
- Coordination of the experiment
- Design of the tablet questionnaire
- Collection and analysis of experimental data
People involved in LESCOT: Marie-Axelle GRANIE, Fabien MOREAU
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The aim of the AutoBehave project is to look at what happens inside an autonomous vehicle, in other words, how its occupants behave during and in the face of autonomous driving. For example, what will the driver do if he or she is not driving, or how will the time previously used for driving be reinvested? What activities will they do depending on their emotional state, and what will be the economic impact of these activities? The AutoBehave project has set out to address these questions using a multidisciplinary approach, combining the skills of computer scientists for the automatic analysis of human activity, physical ergonomists and cognitive science researchers to study the discomfort and emotional states of car occupants, economists to study the economic impact of activities carried out inside the vehicle, and interior designers to anticipate the design of future autonomous vehicles. The AutoBehave project can be seen as a first step in multidisciplinary research into the impact of the adoption of autonomous vehicles in our society.
Coordination: Université Lumière Lyon 2 (LIRIS)
Partners: LIRIS (Laboratoire d'informatique en image et systèmes d'information), LAET (Laboratoire Aménagement Économie Transports), LBMC (Xuguang Wang, Georges Beurier), Groupe DEMS
Dates: 01/10/2019 - 30/03/2024
Project funder: AURA Region
Laboratory involvement:
- Participation in the design of the experiment
- Analysis of experimental data
People involved in LESCOT: Christophe Jallais, Fabien Moreau
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This project is concerned with the resumption of driving in patients who have suffered a stroke. The aim is to study the benefits of using on-board cameras during driving practice, with a view to encouraging drivers to self-assess.
Coordination: Laurence Paire-Ficout
Partners: Kerpape Center
Dates: 03/07/2020 - 03/07/2023
Project funder: Centre Kerpape
Laboratory involvement:
- Participation in protocol design
- Data analysis
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Laurence Paire-Ficout, Maud Ranchet
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Vehicle automation, whether at level 3 (with unanticipated requests to take control) or level 4 (fully autonomous driving on certain sections of road), poses new problems in terms of safety and driver acceptability. Based on a needs analysis, the AutoConduct project aims to design a new Human Machine Cooperation (HMC) strategy adapted to the driver's condition. To achieve this, the project aims to offer advanced monitoring of the driver's state by combining different diagnostics (physical state defined by his posture, internal states defined by his emotional state and cognitive effort, perceptual state defined by his strategies for taking in visual information) so as to adapt in real time the management of interactions between the driver and the vehicle's automatic systems. All the results of this project will be integrated into two instrumented vehicles. A first Wizard of Oz vehicle will integrate the "driver state/informative interaction modes" aspects to test the acceptability of the interfaces and the robustness of the diagnostics on open roads. A second vehicle will incorporate the entire system, including active controls for longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics, to test the acceptability and robustness of CHM in a protected situation (test track).
Coordination: Védecom (administrative coordination), Héléne tattegrain (scientific coordination)
Partners: VEDECOM, LS2N (école centrale de Nantes), Lamih (université de valenciennes), Continental, PSA
Dates: Octobre 2017 - Septembre 2020
Project funder: ANR
Laboratory involvement:
- The acceptability of autonomous vehicles
- Monitoring internal states
- Diagnostic integration
- Diagnostic fusion
People involved in LESCOT: Héléne Tattegrain, Annie Pauzié, Alexandra Fort, Christophe Jallais, Antonio Hidalgo Munoz, Catherine Gabaude, Fabien Moreau, Romain Derollepot
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The aim of the project is to assess the suitability of the BECAPE system for the needs of occupational therapists who assess their patients' fitness to drive, from three angles:
- The use of the system: from a technical and practical point of view, is the system suitable? does it allow patients to be assessed, whatever their disability? does the system allow patients to be seated, whatever their morphology and difficulties? what improvements can be made to the system from an ergonomic point of view?
- The system's functionalities: are the system's existing functionalities effective and relevant for the intended purpose? are they sufficient to assess driving ability? what improvements need to be made?
- Integration of the system into the practice of occupational therapists: can the system be easily integrated into current assessment protocols (practicality, assessment time, usability of results, etc.)? what improvements can be made to the system to improve results and patient progress?
The approach used will be mainly qualitative: data will be collected from functional rehabilitation centres that have the BECAPE system, using interviews, observations and logbooks detailing each test session for a patient with the system.
Coordination: Aline Alauzet
Dates: 13/11/2017 - 30/09/2018
Project funder: CEREMH
People involved in LESCOT: Aline Alauzet, Laurence Paire-Ficout, Maud Ranchet
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Ifsttar wanted to get involved in the issue of mobility for the elderly by proposing to run scientific events designed to increase dialogue with researchers.
Given the ageing of the population, the accident rate among the elderly needs to be studied in particular. It is important to take account not only of changes in their mobility, but also of age- and gender-specific factors that may influence their choice of means of transport. The decline in mortality has not benefited older people, particularly men, and it seems unlikely that this trend will be reversed in the absence of new measures or specific actions aimed at older people. It is therefore important to carry out an overall review of knowledge and gaps in order to propose measures likely to reduce road safety among the elderly while promoting/maintaining active and safe mobility. Ifsttar wanted to get involved in this issue, which is of major societal importance, by proposing to lead scientific activities designed to increase dialogue with researchers working on this issue. The aims of the proposed project are 1) to identify a community of researchers interested in the mobility of the elderly; 2) to provide scientific leadership in order to encourage the emergence of new research topics; 3) to help set up projects.
Coordination: Catherine Gabaude
Partners: LAPEA (Aurélie Dommes), UMRESTTE (Sylviane Lafont)
Dates: 13/09/2018 - 17/09/2022
Project funder: INTERIOR MINISTRY
People involved in LESCOT: Catherine Gabaude
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The DSR supports actions in support of public road safety policy. The COVASR coordination committee provides scientific leadership aimed at improving internal coordination, increasing consultation with the DSR and organising international representation.
In consultation with the DSR, a coordination committee has been set up to optimise exchanges with the DSR and meet their expectations as effectively as possible. This committee provides scientific leadership to improve the internal coordination of road safety initiatives and, as part of the drive to create the Univ. Eiffel, to increase consultation with the DSR and make the best possible use of contributions to public policy, including, where necessary, the DSR's international representation. This committee will ensure that the French voice is consistent and promote the influence of French road safety research.
Coordination: Kristel Hermel
Dates: 08/10/2019 - 31/12/2022
Project funder: DSR
People involved in LESCOT: Catherine Gabaude, Marie-Axelle Granié
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Our hypothesis is that the moral arguments used to justify epidemic-related rules could reinforce the moral perception of road rules. More specifically, we believe that internal arguments will be used predominantly to justify compliance with health rules (because of the moral justifications used to justify their implementation) and will be linked to internal arguments in compliance with road rules.
- Phase 1: 1st containment (April-May 2020)
- Phase 2: 2nd containment (November 2020)
- Phase 3: post-crisis (May-June 2021)
Coordination: Marie-Axelle Granié
Partners: CEREMA
Dates: 10/04/2020 - 10/10/2021
Project funder: DSR [Ministry]
Personnes impliquées au LESCOT : Marie-Axelle Granié, Myriam Evennou
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The aim of the CYCLOPE project is to develop technical solutions for integrating cyclists into urban traffic by improving both their safety and the driving comfort of bus drivers. The method recommended in CYCLOPE is to use the radio signals emitted by the bus (communication signals to its control terminal or radar signals from an anti-collision system, for example). The radar signals emitted by the bus should provide information about the presence of a cyclist in the vicinity of the bus. The detection and identification of cyclists by the bus is ensured by an ultra-wideband radar, which will be reasonably expensive in large-scale production. In parallel with the technological developments, studies in the Human and Social Sciences have enabled informed criticism of the technical choices made to achieve the desired objective. For example, studies of the behaviour of cyclists and motorists were carried out on a bicycle driving simulator and a car driving simulator with several dozen participants and with scenarios selected for their dangerousness in terms of conflicts between buses and bicycles. Experimental validation of an on-board bicycle warning system was carried out through measurement campaigns at the operator's site in Rennes.
By analysing accidents between buses and cyclists, we built scenarios that could be replayed on our bicycle simulator by testing alarm devices informing cyclists of the presence of a bus in their environment. By studying the perception and behaviour of motorists, the experiment carried out in the driving simulator made it possible to quantify the dangerousness of the behaviour that cyclists equipped with the warning system might adopt. By analysing the radar echoes returned by several types of obstacle (pedestrian, car, cyclist), we were able to highlight their own signature. By studying different classification algorithms, we have selected those that minimise the error rate. By studying the backscattering characteristics of printed reflectors inspired by reflector networks, we were able to design, produce and measure a low-cost, compact device to increase the visibility of a bicycle-cyclist combination when it is illuminated by a radar wave emitted by a bus (anti-collision radar).
Thanks to a prototype mounted on a bicycle, bus detection could be carried out on the operator's site by receiving the communications signals emitted by the bus. The project has improved the immersion capabilities of the bicycle simulator at Marne la Vallée, making it the only scientific facility of its kind in France. The use of special devices (metamaterials, dihedral) increases the Radar Equivalent Surface (RES) of the cyclist so that he can be better detected by the anti-collision radars of road vehicles.
Coordination: Guillaume Uster (Gustave Eiffel University)
Partners: IETR (Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes), IEMN (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis - Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie), KEOLIS RENNES, Université Gustave Eiffel
Dates: 01/10/2014 - 31/03/2019
Project funder: ANR (porteur ESTAS)
UGE laboratories involved: LAPEA, LESCOT, LEPSIS
Laboratory involvement: Carrying out the study using the driving simulator (creating and carrying out risk scenarios involving buses and cyclists for the simulator, analysing behaviour while driving and detecting vulnerable road users).
People involved in LESCOT: Joceline Roge, Sébastien Laurent
Objectives: Consultation and scientific coordination of road safety initiatives
Coordination: Marie-Line Gallenne
Dates: 31/05/2017 - 31/05/2019
Project funder: DSR [Ministry]
People involved in LESCOT: Catherine Gabaude
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This project involves the development of automated public transport services. It will focus on serving outlying centres in peri-urban and rural areas. The specific use cases will make it possible to work 1) on serving an industrial zone, 2) on exchanges between villages. These use cases have been identified to meet the needs of the Sophia Antipolis Conurbation Community, as well as to address the creation of mobility services in very sparsely populated rural areas (Cœur de Brenne) in order to better connect the existing transport network to points that are currently poorly served.
This project will also address the validation of experiments by identifying critical cases associated with an automated transport system, then reconstructing them on protected test tracks. This will enable the creation of a database representative of situations as part of the development of an experimental chain that will enable the vehicles to be validated.
The originality of the project therefore lies in deploying a 'user-centred' design and validation approach, with iterative technological development and in-depth analysis of user needs, expectations and behaviour. These experiments, carried out both on real public transport services and on protected sites, will provide a feedback base that can be used to support public decision-making. In summary, the following points were specifically addressed by the UGE in 2020:
- Societal issues, focusing on the acceptability of Autonomous Shuttles as a new means of transport, and on the socio-economic and environmental contribution of these services. In this respect, a large-scale survey of a representative sample of the population will be carried out to identify the expectations, as well as the potential reservations, of future users with regard to this new 'disruptive' technology for mobility. The Lescot survey will start in November 2020.
- Technological challenges centred on validating the operational safety of the technical devices and the safety of the Autonomous Shuttles in traffic situations. This is at the heart of the project. Based on field studies focusing on the use cases introduced above, the aim will also be to identify potentially critical situations that the Autonomous Shuttles will need to be able to handle, before being deployed on real sites. The aim will first be to carry out evaluations, in particular on the Transpolis test track, with a view to testing the performance and validating the operational safety of the Autonomous Shuttles in critical situations, as well as identifying the data needed to analyse accidents and incidents. Lescot has defined the methodology for evaluating critical scenarios. Some of these scenarios have already been evaluated on the Transpolis tracks with the UGE autonomous shuttle.
Coordination : Philippe Vezin (coordination), Hélène Tattegrain (scientific coordination)
Partners: Berthelet, EDF, EDF Lab (ex EDF R&D), Instant System, Eiffage, Energies, Navya, Transpolis, Sector, SCE, ENTPE (LAET), UGE (LBMC, LESCOT, LMA, SII, ERENA, PICS-L, EASE)
Dates: 01/11/2019 - 31/04/2024
Project funder: ADEME
Laboratory involvement:
- Scientific coordination
- Acceptability of the shuttles
- Identification of critical scenarios
- General shuttle deployment methodology
People involved in LESCOT:Hélène Tattegrain, Thierry Bellet, Fabien Moreau, Noëlle Favier, Audrey Charnoz, Anaïs Hoarau, Thomas Rayon
Link: experimentations-navettes-autonomes.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr
Objectives:
ESRA, originally entitled "European Survey of Road users' safety Attitudes", is a project led by the IBSR in Belgium[1] and aims to carry out, on a three-yearly basis, surveys - inspired by the SARTRE surveys - of road users in different European countries concerning their attitudes, representations and behaviour on the road (http://www.esranet.eu/about-the-project).
France, through IFSTTAR-TS2 (MA Granié, TS2-LMA) took part in the 2015 survey, in particular by checking the French version of the questionnaire, which was originally in English, and the data obtained for France was shared with the DSCR (C. Painblanc). This participation did not entail any financial costs for France, as the IBSR paid for the original translation into French, as well as the collection of data from a panel of over 1,000 participants in France. However, France was not part of the CG and therefore only had access to the French data[1].
Given the value of the data collected for DSR decision-makers and Ifsttar researchers, it seems important that France should continue to take part in this survey, the second round of which will be carried out in 2018. This seems all the more desirable given that the survey now covers 25 countries, including most European countries but also Canada, the USA, Israel, Australia and the Republic of Korea. However, the IBSR is now requesting that France, like the other partners, finance its participation in the survey.
As a result of this request for financial participation, it seems desirable that France should be more involved in the survey, in particular to allow full access to the data collected, or even upstream participation in the construction of the questionnaire (if participation in the CG extends over several surveys). In order to achieve this, it would appear necessary for France to join the consortium's MC, a much greater involvement in financial and human terms (see above), but one that would allow access to all the data from all 25 countries in the ESRA2 and ESRA1 surveys.
[1] Le CG était composé, pour ESRA1 de l’IBSR (Belgique), du KfV (Autriche), du NTUA (Grèce), de CTL (Italie), de ITS (Pologne), de PRP (Portugal) et du BFU (Suisse)
[1] L’Institut Belge pour la Sécurité Routière (IBSR) est devenu, le 13 septembre 2017, le VIAS Institute
Coordination: Marie-Axelle Granié
Partners:
Dates: 15/03/2018 - 14/09/2021
Project funder: INTERIOR MINISTRY
Personnes impliquées au LESCOT : Marie-Axelle Granié, Florent Varet
Objectives:
The GAP exploratory project aims to measure and explain inequalities in access to driving licences between men and women. It extends and complements the Permis_HF project, currently funded by the DSR of the Ministry of the Interior. Firstly, the secondary analysis of data collected in three experimental public policy evaluation projects on access to road mobility, by the ERUDITE/TEPP laboratory (UPEM), will make it possible to study the determinants of gender inequalities in driving licence pass rates for a particular sub-population, young people with integration difficulties. Secondly, two experimental psychosocial studies, by the LESCOT-TS2 laboratory (IFSTTAR), will test whether gender stereotypes associated with driving influence the social judgements made about the driving skills and risk-taking behaviour of women and men. All the results of the GAP and Permis_HF projects will be used to propose various types of public remedial action to improve women's success in obtaining their driving licence.
Coordination: Marie-Axelle Granié
Partners: Yannick L’Horty (Erudite, UPEM)
Dates: 27/04/2019 - 30/11/2021
Project funder: I-Site FUTURE, AAP exploratoire
People involved in LESCOT: Marie-Axelle Granié, Jordan Revol
Objectives:
Expertise agreement aimed at organising consultation between the players involved in psychotechnical tests in order to improve professional practices and support the DSR in producing a list of psychotechnical tests to be recommended and drafting specifications for the training of psychologists.
The GT Psychotec project was funded by the Road Safety Delegation. It provided an opportunity to organise consultation between those involved in psychometric tests in order to improve professional practices and support the DSR in producing recommendations to provide a better framework for carrying out psychometric tests.
Three complementary actions were envisaged:
- Expertise on psychotechnical tests (mission to support public decision-making)
- Networking of those involved in psychotechnical testing
- Identification of research needs relating to psychometric test
The work carried out under the coordination of Ifsttar has led to a consensus of experts aimed at specifying the conditions for carrying out psychometric tests and producing specifications for the training of psychologists wishing to carry out psychometric tests. Two interministerial decrees were published in January 2019. Between 2017 and 2019, Ifsttar responded to requests from test publishers to improve the scientific quality of their tools.
All of the work produced in this project was promoted by the publication of an article in the Journal des Psychologues and the publication of several chapters in a collective work on the Psychology of Transport and Mobility, which has just been published by Presses Universitaires de Nancy.
Coordination: Catherine Gabaude
Dates: 04/05/2017 - 02/11/2020
Project funder: DSR
People involved in LESCOT: Catherine Gabaude, Marie-Axelle Granié, Laurence Paire-Ficout
Objectives:
Coordination: Christophe Jallais
Partner: LMA (Pierre Van Elslande)
Dates: 31/08/2023 - 08/12/2023
Project funder: DGTIM
Laboratory involvement: Review of literature
People involved in LESCOT: Christophe Jallais
Objectives:
The aim of this project is to validate the algorithm for detecting cognitive discomfort experienced while driving developed as part of the DISCO+ project and a patent was filed in 2017 (reference PTC/EP2016/067325). The aim here is to continue the investigations in order to improve it. During the DISCO+ project, the protocol used to develop it only presented driving situations on departmental roads. The aim of this research is to test and improve the results by adding urban situations to supplement the data obtained as part of the DISCO+ project. This new data will provide new examples to improve automatic learning for detecting discomfort while driving.
Coordination: IFSTTAR/TS2/LESCOT (Christophe JALLAIS)
Partners: TME (Toyota Motor Europe)
Dates: 20/02/2018 - 15/11/2019
Project funder: TME (Toyota Motor Europe)
Laboratory involvement:
- State of the art, methodological implementation
- Conducting studies
- Processing and analysis of results
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Christophe Jallais, Alexandra Fort, Fabien Moreau, Antonio Hidalgo Munoz, Nathalie Redoute
Objectives:
To explore the effects of stereotype threat on women's performance at the practical driving test and test methods of mitigating them.
In France, more men than women pass their driving test. This has important social consequences for women, such as higher training costs and increased barriers to employment. The DSR-funded Permis_HF project identified stereotype threat as an important explanatory factor, but did not directly study the assessment situation for the practical test. In the field of driving, the literature suggests a relationship between the activation of the negative stereotype of women at the wheel and a higher risk of collision measured on a driving simulator in women. The aim of the MESCA project is 1/ to verify that the situation of the practical test creates threat effects that deteriorate the performance of women and improve the performance of men; 2/ to test the effect of the counter-stereotype in improving the performance of women at the test and reducing the feeling of competence of men; 3/ to analyse the variables explaining the inter-individual differences and the threat effects. The final objective is to be able to propose a simple means of mitigating both the threat of the stereotype for women - and its deleterious effects on their driving performance at the time of the test - and the over-confidence of men - and its deleterious effects on their subsequent risky driving behaviour.
Coordination: Marie-Axelle Granié
Partners: UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2, AMU
Dates: 08/11/2019 - 07/11/2022
Project funder: INTERIOR MINISTRY
People involved in LESCOT: Marie-Axelle Granié
Objectives:
The aim of the Neurone project was to assess the impact of auditory distraction on the cerebral processes involved in car driving, depending on whether the driver was driving manually or autonomously.
25 people took part in the study, which was carried out in a 3.0 Tesla MRI with a compatible driving simulator (CERMEP, Bron). In manual mode, the participant had to follow a vehicle and react by braking when the vehicle braked. In autonomous mode, the vehicle reacted automatically. Participants had to monitor the scene and the braking lights of the car in front. Each driving task was performed either alone (single task) or while listening to a radio programme on which 3 questions were asked (double task).
The results showed similar activation patterns between the 4 conditions in the frontal and occipital regions. However, differences were observed according to the manual or autonomous driving mode and according to the single or dual task context. Compared with the single task, the dual task increased the activity of regions associated with auditory-verbal comprehension and decreased the activity of regions associated with driving management (regions associated with executive control, attention and error control), independently of the driving mode. To our knowledge, this study is the first to have presented how a driver manages an auditory distraction in the context of autonomous driving.
Coordination: Alexandra Fort et Téodor Danaila (Lyon Neurological Hospital)
Partners: LEPSIS - CERMEP
Dates: 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2019
Project funder: IFSTTAR – Targeted Initiative
Laboratory involvement:
- Coordination
- Experimental design
- Handover
- Analysis
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Alexandra Fort, Antonio Hidalgo-Munoz, Christophe Jallais, Fabien Moreau, Daniel Ndiaye
Objectives:
Knowing the impact of anxiety on attentional capacity, this project aims to gain a better understanding of the potential impact of driving anxiety on driving behaviour, driving performance and the attentional processes involved in driving.
There are no data on the extent of this phenomenon in France. To fill this gap, the first part of the project consists of a prevalence study in the French population. In addition to the percentage of people affected and their demographic characteristics, we will be looking at the source of this anxiety, the repercussions on people's quality of life and whether they are taking anxiety-related medication.
The second, experimental, part of the project aims to gain a better understanding of how driving anxiety, depending on its intensity, can impact attentional processes and the processing of the visual scene in a driving situation, and what the repercussions are in terms of driving performance. We will be gathering not only behavioural data but also physiological, neurophysiological and psychological data to obtain a more accurate picture of the risks associated with driving anxiety and how they arise, and to suggest possible solutions for the people concerned.
Coordination: Alexandra Fort
Partners: Toulouse University (Antonio Hidalgo-Munoz)
Dates: 02/10/2020 - 02/03/2023
Project funder: DSR [Ministry]
Laboratory involvement:
- Coordination
- Experimental design
- Handover
- Analysis
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Alexandra Fort, Christophe Jallais, Myriam Evennou, Fabien Moreau, Romain Derollepot, Daniel Ndiaye
Objectives:
This project is part of the scientific challenge "The safe and resilient city: Understanding and managing urban risk" scientific challenge. The aim of the project is to help reduce and prevent the risk of falls in order to improve the mobility in the city of elderly people with normal or pathological ageing. In this context, the general aim of the project is to study the role of neurophysiological, cognitive and metacognitive factors (awareness of deficits) on the ability to move around in complex environments.
Coordination: IFSTTAR – TS2 – Lescot (Laurence Paire-Ficout et Maud Ranchet)
Partners: Téodor Danaila, Hôpital Neurologique ; Maxime Cheminon, Jacques Luauté, Hôpital Henry-Gabrielle
External partners: Stéphane Perrey, EuroMov, Université de Montpellier ; Hannes Devos, Laboratory for Advanced Rehabilitation Research in Simulation (LARRS), University of Kansas Medical Center
Dates: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020
Project funder: AAP exploratoire
People involved in LESCOT: Laurence Paire-Ficout, Maud Ranchet, Isabelle Hoang, Romain Derollepot, Fabien Moreau
Objectives:
The aim of the project is to understand the 10-point gender difference in success on the practical test for the B driving licence, whereas this difference is not observed for the theory test, nor for the practical tests for the A and C driving licences. A review of the international literature raises questions about the role of attitudes, perceptions and representations of male and female drivers among trainees, instructors and inspectors at three key moments: before training, during training and at the time of the test.
Coordination: Marie-Axelle Granié
Partners: LMA (Cécile Coquelet), LAPEA (Catherine Gabaude)
Dates: 21/11/2016 - 21/11/2019
Project funder: DSR
People involved in LESCOT: Marie-Axelle Granié, Myriam Evennou
Objectives:
The aim of the study is to draw up a summary of the state of the art on emotions in vehicles, their impact on driving and their regulation. This state of the art will also provide a roadmap for future research.
Coordination: Christophe Jallais
Dates: 01/06/2018 - 01/05/2019
Project funder: RENAULT/REGIENOV
Laboratory involvement: State of the art
People involved in LESCOT: Christophe Jallais, Alexandra Fort
Objectives:
The SAKHAD project (for Situation Awareness Keeping and rebuilding during Highly Automated Driving) aims to design, develop and then evaluate on a driving simulator advanced HMI solutions dedicated to the resumption of manual control of the vehicle in critical situations, at the end of a fully automated driving phase (level L3 or L4, according to the SAE classification). The central challenge of this research is to enable the driver to rebuild his or her 'Situation Awareness' as quickly as possible when the Highly Automated Driving (HAD) system reaches its limits and is no longer capable of managing the criticality of the situation by itself (e.g. risk of frontal or side collision, in particular). The driver must then be asked to disengage the HAD system and return to the control loop as soon as possible to manage the risk of accident manually.
Coordination: IFSTTAR/TS2/LESCOT
Partners: TME (Toyota Motor Europe), EIS Group / CIVITEC (LESCOT subcontracting)
Dates: 15/10/2017 - 15/02/2020
Project funder: TME (Toyota Motor Europe)
Laboratory involvement:
The work carried out at LESCOT aims firstly to design innovative HMI solutions that will enable the driver to carry out a secondary task during HAD driving, while guaranteeing that the vehicle can be safely and effectively regained control of in an extremely short time (time budget of less than or equal to 5 seconds). One of the proposed HMIs is based on a patent filed by LESCOT in 2017, and is based on the algorithms of the COSMODRIVE model, aimed precisely at simulating the "natural process" of (re)construction of Situation Awareness by the human cognitive system.
In addition, in order to be able to evaluate the respective benefits of these different HMI solutions, LESCOT has also developed, on a driving simulator (using V-HCD and Pro-SIVIC software), an HAD system emulation as well as 20 critical driving scenarios (time budgets between 3.5 and 5 sec.). As part of a rotating experimental plan, 4 HMI modalities are being evaluated using these same critical scenarios, all with reference to purely manual management of comparable accident situations.
People involved in LESCOT: Thierry Bellet, Bertrand Richard, Audrey Charnoz (CDD), Evan Gallouin (CDD), Joshua Quick (Apprentice), Bruno Piechnik
Objectives:
We are proposing that the SDIS 38 carry out a psychosocial study to examine the various factors likely to explain firefighters' driving behaviour, particularly in relation to the perception of risks, the perception of rules, the perception of the driver's role and the collective.
The SDIS 38 is looking for information that will enable it to develop a preventive action and recommendations on the field of action to invest in, by working on the causes of behaviour rather than its consequences. We have proposed a psychosocial study to SDIS 38 to examine the various factors likely to explain firefighters' driving behaviour, particularly in relation to the perception of risks, the perception of rules, the perception of the driver's role and the collective. In addition, we will question individual characteristics likely to explain variations in these perceptions. This information will enable us to understand which groups are most exposed to road risk, and which should be targeted as a priority for preventive action.
Coordination: Marie-Axelle Granié
Dates: 05/12/2019 - 31/12/2021
Project funder: SDIS 38
Laboratory involvement:
- Coordination
- Experimental design
- Testing
- Analysis
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Marie-Axelle Granié
Objectives: Identify the factors involved in regulating driving activity and the consequences of this regulation.
Coordination: S. Lafont (Ifsttar-TS2-Umrestte)
Partners: IFSTTAR-TS2-LESCOT, C. Chavoix (Inserm-Comete)
Dates: 11/05/2018 - 10/05/2021
Project funder: Road Safety Delegation (DSR)
Laboratory involvement: Participation in the preparation of the postal survey (5-year follow-up of the Safe Move cohort) and in the analysis of the data collected.
People involved in LESCOT: L. Paire-Ficout, T. Bellet, C. Gabaude
Objectives:
SMASHS (Safety-Mobility: SHS Approaches) is a forum for meeting, sharing and exchanging SHS work and problematisations at Ifsttar, around the question of the relationship between mobility and safety in transport. The aim of SMASHS is to provide a forum for the exchange of SHS views on mobility and safety in transport. SMASHS has set up a mailing list for internal and external events likely to be of interest to the SHS (calls for articles, projects, seminar announcements, job vacancies, etc.), as well as a skills directory (50 researcher profiles). An exploratory I-Site project (GAP) has resulted from this networking. It has also led to the creation of the "traffic psychology" network with the Fédération Française des Psychologues et de Psychologie (FFPP) and the University of Lorraine. A dossier on "Transports, sécurité, mobilité; l'apport de la psychologie" was published in the "Journal des Psychologues", and a symposium on "Psychologie des Transports et de la mobilité" organised in Paris in 2018, the proceedings of which have just been published: Schneider, B., Dinet, J., & Granié, M.-A. (2020). Psychologie des transports et des mobilités. Presses Universitaires de Nancy. At the request of the FFPP, MA Granié will now represent France on the standing committee Traffic Psychology of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations. SMASHS has highlighted the need to m
Coordination: Marie-Axelle Granié
Partners: Régis Lobjois
Dates: 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2020
Project funder: Gustave Eiffel University
People involved in LESCOT: Marie-Axelle Granié
Objectives:
- To identify the benefits and limitations of functional near-infrared spectroscopy in studying the cognitive and visual processes involved during driving in different populations of drivers (young and elderly).
- To study the differences in terms of brain activity between two groups of young drivers (experienced, with more than 3 years' driving experience, or novice, with less than 6 months' driving experience) and a group of elderly drivers in active and passive driving situations (autonomous mode) associated with secondary tasks.
- To study brain activity in the visual cortex (V1) according to different levels of discomfort due to light sources and according to the age of the driver.
Coordination: IFSTTAR – TS2 - Lescot Maud Ranchet et Alexandra Fort, Téodor Danaila Lyon Neurological Hospital
Partners: LEPSIS
Dates: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2021
Project funder: IFSTTAR – Targeted Initiative
Laboratory involvement:
- Coordination
- Experimental design
- Testing
- Analysis
- Valuation
People involved in LESCOT: Antonio Hidalgo-Munoz, Christophe Jallais, Fabien Moreau, Romain Derollepot
People involved in LEPSIS: Roland Brémond, Céline Villa
Objectives:
The aim of this project is to develop the first standard autonomous bus without a driver. With a length of 12 metres, it will be able to accommodate around 100 passengers in optimum conditions of safety, security and comfort, and should reach a speed of 40 km/h. A prototype should see the light of day at the end of the project.
Lescot is involved in this project on the human factors side to assess the expectations, fears and needs of users, particularly those who might find themselves in a disabled situation when using this autonomous bus. Observations and data collection at experimental sites, including the Transpolis site, will be carried out to gain a better understanding of user acceptability and acceptance.
The STAR research project has been approved by the CARA and Aerospace Valley competitiveness clusters.
Coordination: EasyMile
Partners: EasyMile, supplier of solutions for driverless vehicles; IVECO BUS for the bus and electronically assisted driving solutions (drive by wire); Sector for safety; Ifsttar for accessibility for people with reduced mobility and the acceptability of this type of vehicle for all users; Inria Chroma for data fusion and the supply of anti-collision sensors; Inria E-Motion for the validation of the vehicle at high speed; Isae-Supraero for localisation; Transpolis for the validation of tests in different scenarios; Michelin for connected tyres.
Dates: 25/10/2017 - 31/12/2021
Project funder: Single Interministerial Fund (FUI) – BPI France
People involved in LESCOT: Laurence Paire-Ficout, Aline Alauzet, Caroline Pigeon
Objectives:
The aims of this partnership research project, which, in line with the work financed by the road safety foundation, is based on co-funding from various partners, are:
- Identifying interaction scenarios between autonomous vehicles and other road users (non-autonomous vehicles, motorised two-wheelers, cyclists, pedestrians)
- Study of negotiation situations in which drivers manage this interaction in advance, based on non-autonomous driving databases and using the perception of elements that are difficult to measure by automated systems (gaze, a priori knowledge of intention, etc.).
- Study of the reaction of other road users to an autonomous vehicle while the driver is absorbed in an ancillary task
- Identification of the communication needs of the autonomous vehicle in an active phase with other road users
- Analysis of the needs of older users and acceptability of the autonomous vehicle
- Study of the impact of the posture of the occupants (driver and passengers) of a vehicle in autonomous mode on the risk of injury
- Choice of simulation scenarios: occupant positions, impact conditions (when performing ancillary tasks) and restraint systems
- Assessment of potential injuries using numerical simulations as a function of restraint systems (e.g. deployment of air bags)
- Recommendations in terms of acceptable postures for different restraint systems
Coordination: Dominique MIGNOT (coordination), Hélène Tattegrain (scientific coordination)
Partners: VEDECOM, CEREMA, CEESAR, DSR [Ministry], LAB
Dates: 01/06/2018 - 29/07/2022
Project funder: FSR, DSR
Laboratory involvement:
- Identification of interaction scenarios between autonomous vehicles and other road users (non-autonomous vehicles, motorised two-wheelers, cyclists, pedestrians)
- Modelling of vehicle/vehicle interaction scenarios
- Identification of the needs of elderly people
People involved in LESCOT: Héléne Tattegrain, Thierry Bellet, Marie-Axelle Granié, Laurence Paire-Ficout, Maud Ranchet, Fabien Moreau, Romain Derollepot
Objectives:
While the consequences of telephone use on driving are now well known, the extremely rapid development of telephone services is generating practices that are much less well known. The TSICA study, funded by the MAIF Foundation, was carried out by Ifsttar to describe and quantify these practices. This study served as the basis for the introduction of a barometer of the use of the telephone at the wheel administered once a year since 2017.
Coordination: IFSTTAR/TS2/LESCOT
Dates:
- TSICA : 19/12/2014 – 28/02/2018
- TSICA2 : 09/07/2018 – 08/07/2020
- TSICA3 :
Financeurs du projet : Fondation MAIF
Laboratory involvement:
Firstly, focus groups were used to identify and explain usage patterns and to gain a better understanding of what the telephone represents for drivers, and how and why it is being used in vehicles. Then, an online survey was administered to 3,189 people representative of the French population (quota method). Of the 2,843 drivers in the sample, 1,081 (39%) said they used their phone at least sometimes while driving (Survey 2016). A usage barometer was drawn up on the basis of this initial survey and administered in 2017 and 2018. The results show that the number of drivers using their phone at the wheel continues to rise: 39% in 2016, 43% in 2017 and 46% in 2018. Although conversations are sometimes very long, safer use of the phone seems to be confirmed year after year: almost ¾ of drivers who converse at the wheel now do so hands-free at least from time to time. Listening to and dictating messages still concerns very few drivers: ¾ of drivers read or write their messages most of the time. Age is a very important factor, with a clear divide at 45. Driving a lot of kilometres or on business is also a factor in phone use. The fact of driving a lot of kilometres or driving for work is also a determining factor in phone use. It should be noted, however, that long-distance drivers are generally better equipped (integrated hands-free kits) and have a better knowledge of their phone, which enables them to use it more safely.
People involved in LESCOT: Marie-Pierre Bruyas, Myriam Evennou, Hugues Julliand (CDD)
Link: www.fondation-maif.fr
Objectives:
The aim of this project is to study tasks other than driving in the context of the intelligent vehicle, in particular those related to the use of smartphones and multimedia controls in the vehicle, in order to determine when and how drivers handle their phones and multimedia controls and what impact this may have on the driving task. To do this, two contexts were studied, the first being today's manual driving to identify usage scenarios and their impact on driving, and the second being future automated driving to classify on-board activities in terms of engagement and disengagement and their impact on reactivity for regaining control.
To do this, an initial study used natural driving data to study current use of the smartphone and the vehicle's multimedia controls. A second study was carried out on a simulator to study the engagement of different tasks and disengagement during recovery phases.
Coordination: Hélène Tattegrain
Partner: CEESAR
Dates: 18/11/2020 - 17/05/2022
Project funder: DSR
Laboratory involvement: Study the commitment to different tasks and the disengagement during the recovery phases.
People involved in LESCOT: Hélène Tattegrain, Marie Jaussein
Objectives:
This research will provide knowledge about the complex top-down mechanisms that make certain road users less visible and about the effect that road safety messages can have on motorists' perception of cyclists. It will help to identify the communication medium(s) that are effective in terms of the safety of cyclists in their interactions with motorists. Finally, this project will provide a better understanding of the role of emotions in the effectiveness of the messages delivered.
Coordination: J. Rogé, IFSTTAR/TS2/LESCOT
Partners: LEAD-Université de Bourgogne-Dijon, IFSTTAR/COSYS/LEPSIS
Dates: 01/02/2018 - 31/01/2021
Project funder: DSR
People involved in LESCOT: J. Rogé, C. Jallais
People involved in LEPSIS: Fabrice Vienne, Nguyen-Thong Dang et Daniel Ndiaye