Program

Tuesday
22 October
10:00
Study tour to Michigan Stadium, “The Big House“ (pre-registration required)

10:00
Pre-conference workshop: A Systems Approach to the Management of Driver Distraction, hosted by Dr Matin Nabavi Niaki, Road Safety & Design Project Manager, Austroads and Emeritus Professor Michael Regan, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of NSW Sydney, Australia (pre-registration required)
11:30
Registration opens and networking lunch included for the participants
13:00
Welcome address by the conference co-chairs
13:15
Panel Presentation: Supporting Driver Attention Holistically: Perspectives from the AHEAD Consortium, hosted by Bryan Reimer Bryan Reimer, Ph.D. Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab
14:30
Short break
14:40
Sessions 1. Countermeasures and 2. Driver Characteristics
16:20
Coffee break with sandwich
16:40
Sessions 3. Automation and 4. Methods and models
18:00
Welcome reception at Michigan Union Courtyard, located at the conference venue (pre-registration required)
15:45
Session 7. Driver Monitoring and 8. Impairment
17:15
End of day two
17:30
Departure for technical visit M-City (pre-registration required)
19:00
Conference dinner at Apse, University of Michigan Museum of Art (pre-registration required)

Wednesday
23 October
08:30
Coffee and networking opportunities
08:45
Welcome address and summary of first day
09:00
Panel Session: Overcoming the Distraction Challenge through a Multidimensional Approach, hosted by Dr. C. Y. David Yang, President and the Executive Director of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
10:15
Networking opportunities with coffee and refreshments
10:45
Sessions 5. Driver engagement with technologies and 6. Driver behavior
12:30
Networking lunch
13:30
Keynote address by Prof. Natasha Merat, University of Leeds: Cognitive load during driving: how do we measure it, and is it protective or disruptive?
14:30
Poster session briefing
15:00
Poster session with coffee/refreshment and something sweet
15:45
Session 7. Driver Monitoring and 8. Impairment
17:15
End of day two
17:30
Departure for technical visit M-City (pre-registration required)
19:00
Conference dinner at Apse, University of Michigan Museum of Art (pre-registration required)

Thursday
24 October
08:15
Coffee and networking opportunities
08:30
Welcome address and summary of the second day
08:45
Keynote address by Prof. John Lee, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison: Driver distraction in the age of increasingly automated vehicles
09:45
Coffee and refreshments
10:15
Session 9. Automation and 10. Driver monitoring
11:45
Closing remarks by co-chairs of the conference
12:15
Lunch
13:00
End of conference
15:00
Study tour to Michigan Stadium, “The Big House“ (pre-registration required)
15:45
Session 7. Driver Monitoring and 8. Impairment
17:15
End of day two
17:30
Departure for technical visit M-City (pre-registration required)
19:00
Conference dinner at Apse, University of Michigan Museum of Art (pre-registration required)

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute will be handling secretariat duties for the DDI2024 Conference.

General inquiries E-mail: ddi2024us@umich.edu

Phone: +1 734-936-2070

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Abstract submission E-mail: ddiabstracts@meetx.se.