The Human in Simulation webinar recording

The webinar took place on 18 September and was the last of the series. It was dedicated to Human behaviour and in-crash modelling in prospective safety assessment, with a focus thus on the validation part of the V4SAFETY Safety Assessment Framework.

There are two different types of human aspects in the simulations that V4SAFETY is considering: behaviour models and in-crash models.

The project provides recommendations related to the selection, development, validation and use of behaviour models, as well as an overview of in crash model types and recommendations, across different types of virtual entities.

Representations of behaviour models are essential for safety impact assessment. The related V4SAFETY report (D3.1) provides recommendations addressing specific modelling challenges for safety impact assessments, such as those related to data availability for development and validation, to a generated baseline valid for the evaluation scope.
The webinar presented a few examples of these challenges and recommendations. The second part of the webinar focused on in crash models (which refer to safety assessment of vehicle occupants and vulnerable road users in crash type scenarios) and the use of human body models - more suitable for complex scenarios - in standard virtual testing.

The conclusion and key message was to “think clearly about the evaluation scope and the expected outcome when using a model, and thus about what kind of validation level is needed for these models”.

The presentation (PDF) can be found on our Outputs page.

Watch the recording(s) to explore the final results of the V4SAFETY project.