ADAPTATION researchers visit TRL

Date: 21/6/2011

For two days last week, a group of young researchers including ten doctoral students and one post doctoral student, made a successful visit to TRL to further their work within the ADAPTATION project.

ADAPTATION is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) set under the seventh Framework Programme, comprising European organisations (universities, research institutes and industrial partners) working on drivers' behaviour research and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) design. The objective of ITN is to improve the career perspectives of young researchers by taking part in an innovative and ambitious European research programme and by specific training actions to extend the skills of this future generation of academia and industry researchers.

Specifically, ADAPTATION aims to study the whole range of adaptation processes in response to ADAS including not only observable behavioural changes, but also changes in regulatory, cognitive and motivational processes. TRL's Magali Gouy is participating in the programme and is looking at "Adaptation of non-equipped drivers and traffic implications of driver assistance systems".

During their visit, the students were able to see for themselves some of TRL's extensive facilities including the driving simulation centre with its digiCar and digiTruck and instrumented cars and motorcycles being used within other European research projects such as INTERACTION and 2BeSafe.