Program & activities
Program
Day 1 – Opening day (2 September 2024); Duration – 4 hours
OPENING DAY — 02/09/2024
Goal: To introduce participants with the state of road safety policies and strategies; to give insight into role of education in road safety.
Timetable:
- 9:00 — 10:00 — Registration
- 10:00 — 10:10 — Welcome speech of the Dean of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences (Assoc. Prof. Marko Šoštarić, Ph.D. – Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 10:10 — 10:30 — Presentation of Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences and University of Zagreb (Vice Dean for Science and External Cooperation– Asst. Prof. Dario Babić, Ph.D.)
- 10:30 — 10:50 — Presentation of the summer school program (welcome note from the organizers)
- 10:50 — 11:00 — Coffee break
- 11:00 — 12:00 — Towards Zero Deaths in 2030: Building on then Foundations of the 1st UN Decade of Action for Road Safety — Part 1 (Brendan Halleman, Senior Road Safety Advisor, European Investment
Bank (EIB) - 12:00 — 12:10 — Short break
- 12:10 — 13:10 — Towards Zero Deaths in 2030: Building on the Foundations of the 1st UN Decade of Action for Road Safety — Part 2 (Brendan Halleman, Senior Road Safety Advisor, European Investment Bank (EIB)
- 13:10 –13:40– Lunch break
- 13:40 –14:40– Road safety strategies in EU (Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director European Transport Safety Council)
- 14:40 — 14:50 — Short break
- 14:50 — 16:10 — Role of education in road safety (Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director European Transport Safety Council)
- 19:00 — Welcome dinner (costs included in the participation fee)
Day 2 – Vehicles day (3 September 2024); Duration – 5 hours
Will be available soon!
Day 3 – Human factor (4 September 2024); Duration – 6 hours
HUMAN FACTOR — 04/09/2024
Goal: To introduce participants with key aspects of road safety, including perception and attention in driving, the influence of personality on risky behaviors, and distracted driving; to learn about the misuse of vehicle technologies and the importance of responsible usage; to show contemporary research methods related to eye tracking.
Timetable:
- 9:00 – 10:00 – The role of perception in safe driving (Prof. Kris Brijs, Ph.D. – Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium)
- 10:00 – 10:10 – Short break
- 10:10 – 11:10 – The role of attention in safe driving (Prof. Kris Brijs, Ph.D. – Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium)
- 11:10 – 11:25 – Coffee break
- 11:25 – 12:25 – The role of personality and other factors in risky driving (Prof. Kris Brijs, Ph.D. – Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium)
- 12:25 – 13:00 – Lunch break
- 13:00 — 14:00 — Distracted driving (Dr. Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 14:00 — 14:10 — Short break
- 14:10 — 15:10 — Misuse of vehicle technologies and behavioral adaptation (Dr. Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 15:10 — 15:20 — Short break
- 15:20 — 16:20 — Eye tracking in road safety research (Asst. prof. Dario Babić, Ph.D. — Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb)
- Free evening
Day 4 – Road and environment (5 September 2024); Duration – 6 hours
ROAD AND ENVIRONMENT — 05/09/2024
Goal: To extend participants’ knowledge of different concepts of safe road design; to introduce and elaborate the contemporary concept of self- explaining and forgiving roads; to familiar participants with the basics of roundabout design and their safety effects.
Timetable:
- 9:00 — 10:00 — Safe road design: Practical examples from Italian roads (Prof. Marco Bassani, Ph.D. – Laboratory of Road Safety and Driving Simulation, Politecnico di Torino)
- 10:00 — 10:10 — Short break
- 10:10 — 11:10 — Effects of sight limitations to driver behaviour (Prof. Marco Bassani, Ph.D. – Laboratory of Road Safety and Driving Simulation, Politecnico di Torino)
- 11:25 — 12:25 — Concept of self-explaining and forgiving roads — Part 1 (Assoc. Prof. Ali Pirdavani, Ph.D. – Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Hasselt, Belgium)
- 12:25 — 13:00 — Lunch break
- 13:00 — 14:00 — Concept of self-explaining and forgiving roads — Part 2 (Assoc. Prof. Ali Pirdavani, Ph.D. – Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Hasselt, Belgium)
- 14:00 — 14:10 — Short break
- 14:10 — 15:10 — Roundabout designs and their safety effects — Part 1 (Assoc. Prof. Luka Novačko, Ph.D. — Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb)
- 15:10 — 15:20 — Short break
- 15:20 — 16:20 — Roundabout designs and their safety effects — Part 2 (Assoc. Prof. Luka Novačko, Ph.D. — Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb)
- Free evening
Day 5 – Road Safety Systems (6 September 2024); Duration – 6 hours
Will be available soon!
Day 6 – Road and environment Part 2 (7 September 2024); Duration – 7 hours
ROAD AND ENVIRONMENT — 07/09/2024
Goal: To familiarize participants with safety risks related to low visibility conditions; to extend participants’ knowledge of safe road infrastructure; to evaluate the effect of different low-cost measures for traffic signaling on driver behavior and overall road safety; to familiarize participants with the basic concepts behind traffic lights.
Timetable:
- 9:00 — 10:00 — Importance of road markings and their quality on road safety — Part 1 (Prof. Darko Babić, Ph.D. — Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb)
- 10:00 — 10:15 — Coffee break
- 10:15 — 11:15 — Importance of road markings and their quality on road safety — Part 2 (Asst. Prof. Dario Babić, Ph.D. — Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb)
- 11:15 — 11:25 — Short break
- 11:25 — 12:25 — Importance of road signs and their quality on road safety — Part 3 (Andrija Novaković — 3M)
- 12:25 — 13:00 — Lunch break
- 13:00 — 14:00 – Importance of road markings and signs their quality on road safety — Part 4 — Laboratory demonstration (Andrija Novaković — 3M)
- 14:00 — 14:10 — Short break
- 14:10 — 15:10 – Presentation of measuring equipment for quality control of road markings and road signs (Assoc. Prof. Darko Babić, Ph.D.; Asst. Prof. Dario Babić, Ph.D.; Mario Fiolić, Ph.D. – Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 15:10 — 15:20 — Short break
- 15:20 — 16:20 — Basic concepts behind traffic lights (Slaviša Babić,
Croatian Roads Ltd.) - 16:20 — 16:30 — Short break
- 16:30 — 17:30 — Smart traffic light and road safety (Slaviša Babić, Croatian Roads Ltd.)
Day 7 – Crash Analysis (9 September 2024); Duration – 8 hours
Will be available soon!
Day 8 – Road Safety Inspection (10 September 2024); Duration – 6 hours
ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION — 10/09/2024
Goal: To familiarize participants with the process of “black spots” identification based on a Croatian case study; to familiarize participants with the basic concepts and regulations related to road safety inspection in the EU and with the overall road safety inspection process; to introduce participants with basics of crash modification factors and importance of surrogate safety measures.
Timetable:
- 09:00 — 10:00 — Black spots: Croatian case studies (Slaviša Babić, MSc. Eng. – Croatian Roads, Ltd.)
- 10:00 — 10:10 — Short break
- 10:10 — 11:10 — iRAP — experience with road safety assessment worldwide (Assoc. Prof. Marko Ševrović, Ph.D. – Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 11:10 — 11:25 — Coffee break
- 11:25 — 12:25 – Road safety impact assessment (Assoc. Prof. Marko Šoštarić, Ph.D. – Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 12:25 — 13:00 — Lunch break
- 13:00 — 14:00 — Crash modification factors (Prof. Carmelo D'Agostino, Ph.D. – Lund University, Sweden)
- 14:00 — 14:10 — Short break
- 14:10 — 15:10 – Surrogate Safety Measures – Part 1 (Andrew P. Tarko, Ph.D. – Purdue University, USA)
- 15:10 — 15:20 — Short break
- 15:20 — 16:20 — Surrogate Safety Measures – Part 1 (Andrew P. Tarko, Ph.D. – Purdue University, USA)
- Free evening
Day 9 – Road Safety Inspection – Field work (11 September 2024); Duration – 7 hours
ROAD SAFETY INSPECTION — FIELD WORK — 11/09/2024
Goal: To use the knowledge acquired in theoretical lectures to conduct a road safety inspection on a real road; to identify potential safety issues and discuss potential solutions based on group work.
Timetable:
- 09:00 — 13:00 — Road Safety Inspection — field work (Juraj Leonard Vertlberg, MSc. Traff. Eng.; Marko Švajda, MSc. Traff. Eng. – Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 13:00 — 13:30 — Lunch break
- 13:30 — 16:30 — Road Safety Inspection — Group work on a case study — Part 1 (Juraj Leonard Vertlberg, MSc. Traff. Eng.; Marko Švajda, MSc. Traff. Eng. – Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of
Zagreb, Croatia) - 20:00 — Gala dinner (costs included in the participation fee)
Social activities
What kind of summer would it be without a lot of fun?
Opening day
(02/09/2024)
Welcome dinner
(costs included in the participation fee)
DAY 2
(03/09/2024)
Guided tour of the City of Zagreb
(costs included in the participation fee)
Day 10
(11/09/2024)
Gala dinner
(costs included in the participation fee)
Optional extracurricular activities
You will also have a lot of time to explore and enjoy Croatia. Here are some suggestions for things to do!
Visit Plitvice Lakes
The largest protected nature area in Croatia, and a favorite tourist destination. Plitvice Lakes National Park offers visitors a walk through a landscape of unique and unforgettable beauty. The heart of the National Park consists of low turquoise lakes and beautiful waterfalls.
Visit Krapina Neanderthal Museum
Ever since its opening on February 27, 2010, the Krapina Neanderthal Museum has been lauded as one of the best places to visit in Croatia. The topic of neanderthals is interesting in its own right, and the museum presents it in a very unique and attention-grabbing way.
Visit Karlovac and Ozalj
Start your day in Ozalj, the town of the Frankopan and Zrinski families, by visiting the Ozalj Homeland Museum. You can also go to the Old Town of Ozalj, which has a 6000-year history. In the immediate vicinity is a beautiful hydroelectric power plant called Munjara, which was built in 1906 and produces electricity.
If you’re looking for more ideas visit feel free to check out the Zagreb tourist board, or learn more about your destination
(costs of optional extracurricular activities are not included in the participation fee)
