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Study on the risks of elderly people in road traffic Hasselt University

Tom BRIJS
Traffic Safety
The objective of this study is to get a clear view on elderly people's situation in traffic, in order to develop, if necessary, a strategy to increase road safety for elderly people. The expected outcome is to provide: >> an assessment of the main trends and analysis on risks for elderly persons in road traffic. >> a summary of measures aiming to increase safety for elderly people. >> recommendations for measures to be taken at ...

The positive effects of quiet facades and quiet urban areas on traffic noise annoyance and sleep disturbance Ghent University

Dick Botteldooren
Department of Information technology

The main objective of the project QSIDE is to demonstrate how European cities can effectively reduce harmful effects of traffic noise (annoyance and sleep disturbance) by offering refuges to the inhabitants: quiet facades and quiet areas. For example, a quiet façade offers the possibility to choose a bedroom on the quiet side of a house, thereby reducing the chances on sleep dusturbance by traffic noise. The refuges can be created in new ...

Next generation traffic management for empowering CAVs integration, cross-stakeholders collaboration and proactive multi-modal network optimization (FRONTIER). University of Antwerp

Edwin van Hassel, Ivan Dario Cardenas Barbosa
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Technical University of Crete, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, University of Wolverhampton, Transport and Regional Economics
FRONTIER aims to provide the network and integrated traffic management strategies of the future, taking into account new types and modes of transport and automated vehicles (including their logical and physical requirements), the minimization of pollution and capacity bottlenecks (including congestion and traffic jams), the reduction of accidents, and the need to reduce the cost of mobility for all users (both citizens, public authorities and ...

European Ways Forward for Space Traffic Management KU Leuven

Jan Wouters
Institute for International Law

SPACEWAYS intends to create a common understanding of the guidelines and standards necessary to develop a Space Traffic Management (STM) concept for the European Union (EU). It also aims to assess European technical available and required capabilities (notably in the field of SSA/SST technologies) with respect to STM requirements; and to provide a set of STM best practices and recommendations in line with EU interests. This includes the ...

Trafficking of girls and Catholic missionary networks in the South China Sea (18th-19th centuries): a transnational approach KU Leuven

Angela Schottenhammer
Early Modern History (15th-18th Centuries), Leuven

Child trafficking is one of the most challenging problems of our time, a problem with deep historical roots. This interdisciplinary project aims to contribute to the understanding of these roots by studying the migration of abandoned children organised by members of Catholic religious orders in the South China Sea during the 18th and 19th centuries. As part of the Catholic mission in China, Jesuits, Dominicans, and Franciscans took in and ...

FRODDO: Federated cybeR-physical infrastructure for ODD cOntinuity Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vagelis Papakonstantinou
AV LIVING LAB, INOVATIVNE TEHNOLOGIJE DOO, INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA, IOTAM INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATIONS AND MULTI LAYER DEVELOPMENT LTD, FRONTIER KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS AMKE, INFOSYSTEM SECURITY SRL, EXUS SOFTWARE MONOPROSOPI ETAIRIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINIS, HIPERT SRL, NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT SA, CS GROUP-FRANCE, TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR, TOFAS TURK OTOMOBIL FABRIKASI ANONIM SIRKETI, COMUNE DI MODENA, PERIFEREIA ATTIKIS, ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION, European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination Organisation-Intelligent Transport Systems & Services Europe, European Commission, Metajuridica
The operational context is the cornerstone to ensure performance and safety of CCAM. The ODD, by design, defines the operating
environment for which a system is designed for. On the other hand, Authorities and Road Operators are responsible for operating the PDI
with a variety of vehicles and systems with limited knowledge on the diverse ODD specifications. To answer the question of how safe
is a CCAM service, one should not only ...

L-vehicles Emissions and Noise mitigation Solutions KU Leuven

Bert Pluymers
Mecha(tro)nic System Dynamics (LMSD)

LENS is a project aiming at assisting enforcement authorities, cities and regulators to decrease the contribution of L-category vehicles (LVs: mopeds, motorcycles, tricycles and quadri-mobiles) to noise and air-pollution. This is achieved by developing and promoting interventions and best practices that can address the noise and pollutant emissions of current fleet vehicles and by making suggestions for regulations to improve the performance ...

Financing Organised Crime Activities-focus on Human Trafficking Ghent University

Jelle Janssens
Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law

Therefore the overall aim of FINOCA 2.0 is to counter and improve the prevention of THB in the EU through promoting a more pro-active use and operational cooperation with regard to financial investigations of THB criminal networks. The project will contribue to a better understanding of the financial aspects of human trafficking activities in the EU  and will formulate recommendations for smarter and more effective ways to prevent and ...

i-DREAMS : Interventions for optimal symbiosis of driver-vehicle-environment interactions under challenging conditions. Hasselt University

Tom BRIJS
Transportation Behaviour, Transportation Research Institute, Traffic Safety
The objective of this project is to setup a framework for the definition, development, testing and validation of a context-aware 'safety tolerance zone' for on-road driving, within a smart Driver and Road Environment Assessment and Monitoring System (i-DREAMS). Taking into account, on the one hand, driver-related background factors (age, driving experience, safety attitudes and perceptions, etc.) and real-time risk-related physiological ...