RSS
2024
RSS
2024
Agenda
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Preliminary Technical Program
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Workshops
Workshop Interest Surveys
Dear Conference Participants, your insights are crucial in helping us shape our programming to better meet your needs for the upcoming RSS workshops that will be offered Monday, October 28th, 2024. We kindly ask that you take these brief surveys, regardless of your attendance at either workshop. Your feedback will play an important role in enhancing our future events. Thank you for your time and support!
Safety Performance Function Development Workshop
1pm October 28th, 2024
Lexington, KY
Safety Performance Function Survey
The Kentucky Transportation Center developed a tool that allows you to develop safety performance functions (SPFs) using a web interface and taking advantage of R’s statistical packages. SPF-R online was developed with support from FHWA and VHB to make creating SPFs easier by removing the barrier of having to run R code as statistics are run on a server based on fields and data you provide from a CSV file. This workshop will briefly go over the tool and explain how such tools can be used to assess and improve SPF development. Attendees can bring their own crash and roadway data, and the team will work with attendees to improve their SPFs. More advanced users can use their own statistical applications to customize the modelling.
Draft Agenda
Introduction to model development
The importance of understanding the data
Assessment
• Don’t model in a black box
Case studies
• Unique ways to address challenges
Non-standard processes
• Advanced statistics
Alternative uses for development tools
Workshop team
Dr. Frank Gross
Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan
Dr. Derek Young
Derek Troyer
Paul Ross
Dr. Craig Lyon
Dr. Eric Green
Sarah Weissman Pascual
Dr. Ida Van Schalkwyk
Christina Mcdaniel-Wilson
Driver Simulator Users Workshop
1pm October 28th, 2024
Lexington, KY
Driving simulation provides an objective and safe way to measure driver performance and interaction with the roadway environment. While driving simulators have existed for decades, the field continues to lack methodological gold standards for driving simulation. In efforts to enhance scientific rigor and reliability within the driving simulation community, this workshop will convene researchers who are interested in creating shared resources to promote open science and advance the field of driving simulation. The workshop will involve rapid science talks of emerging topics in driving simulation research followed by interdisciplinary workgroup discussions on methodology, opportunities for shared resources across simulation platforms, limitations, and future directions for the field.
Expert Panel Discussion
October 30th, 2024
Lexington, KY
RSS will host an expert panel discussion with four esteemed colleagues covering a variety of topics with audience participation.
Subtopics could include:
- Data collection
- Diagnosis
- Alternatives analysis
- Post-implementation evaluations
- Wrap-up with some of the research needs to help advance implementation
- Dr. Frank Gross
- Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan
- Dr. Caitlin Northcutt
- Sarah Weissman Pascual