If anyone is planning to register for ICAP, a colleague of mine would like to transfer her early bird registration. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let me know.

Sold out ALREADY! More tickets will be available soon.

Be Curious: Ready to explore the future of travel? Come and step inside Virtuocity – where you can drive a car, walk through a...

🚀 Be Curious @Virtuocity!

This year, we’re excited to be part of the Be Curious event at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social, where we show our immersive facility with interactive demonstrations and hands‑on activities for all ages.
📅 Find out more about the event: openup.leeds.ac.uk/events/be-cu...

We invite contributions that examine the influence of emotional processes on safety-related behavior across various modes of transportation, including road, rail, and aviation, as well as among diverse road users such as drivers, cyclists, passengers, micromobility users, and public transport users.

Frontiers | Affective Processes in Transport Safety: A Psychological Perspective Emotions occupy a pivotal yet insufficiently explored role in transport safety. While previous research has predominantly concentrated on cognitive, environm...

📢 Now Open for Submissions!

Together with Federica Biassoni, Gunilla Björklund, Amanda Stephens, and Mette Møller, we are excited to share a new Research Topic in Frontiers in Psychology: Affective Processes in Transport Safety: A Psychological Perspective

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Not exactly. It is more a question of how road users perceive the traffic system. However, you could argue that this is a kind of addressing favourability.

Commuting in West Yorkshire: Associations between traffic climate, commuting stress, and travel satisfaction osf.io/preprints/ps...

𝑻𝑺𝑹 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫: 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰
In this final webinar, you will have an opportunity to listen and speak directly to the 𝑇𝑆𝑅 editorial team. The webinar is led by the editor-in-chief 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐤𝐬𝐞𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐲𝐧, Lund University, Sweden: tsr.international/TSR/webinars

#TSRjournal #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

The Fault in Our STARS: International Evidence that the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale and the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale Overlap osf.io/preprints/ps...

The 𝑇𝑆𝑅 is glad to welcome İbrahim Öztürk (@ibrahimozturk.bsky.social), Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, the United Kingdom, as a new member of the journal's editorial team: tsr.international/TSR/about/ed...

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@ibrahimozturk.bsky.social talked about their work on in-vehicle technologies, "An investigation of how drivers’ knowledge and use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) varies between countries", from the Hi-Drive project.

New publication: "Exploring the effects of sex category, gender roles, and gender stereotypes on one's own, women's and men's driving behaviour in Türkiye and France". We investigated the relationships between sex, gender roles, and driver behaviours across two countries.

doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

It is my pleasure to share that in 2028, we will be hosting the 9th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP9). Exciting times ahead, we can’t wait to welcome you!

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@ptw86.bsky.social and Hsuan Chao will be exhibiting with a desktop simulator set up to show some of our use cases to delegates, while @ibrahimozturk.bsky.social and Ruth Madigan will be presenting some of their latest work.

Before diving into acceptance levels, we focused on how well the data represented the psychological constructs measured. The results supported a lower-level multi-factor structure, while providing evidence for a general acceptance factor.

🔗 Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New publication! As part of the Hi-Drive project, we (Esko Lehtonen, Ruth Madigan, Yee Mun Lee, Elina Aittoniemi, and Natasha Merat OBE) investigated user acceptance of Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) in conditionally automated driving systems (SAE level 3).

Fatigue assessment of forklift operators in a 12-hour shift system - Tianbo Wang, Ibrahim Öztürk, Wei Lyu, Zuojiang Ning, 2025 Background In recent years, numerous large-scale manufacturing enterprises in Northeastern China have shifted from the conventional 8-h shift model to an extend...

Our new paper, "Fatigue assessment of forklift operators in a 12-hour shift system", led by Tianbo Wang, was published in WORK: A journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation. Check the full text here: doi.org/10.1177/1051...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨

We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.

The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.

Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

We also explored how pedestrian behaviour (approaching vs. standing still) and the presence of LED bands as conspicuity aids influence driver responses.

📖 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

We examined how drivers’ yielding behaviours vary across age groups (younger vs. older), under cognitive load, and across different environmental conditions (daylight vs. after dark, with and without pedestrian crossings).

This study is a milestone for us, not only does it introduce several new experimental features, but it’s also one of the final studies conducted using our previous driving simulator.

🔍 I’m pleased to share our latest open-access article <Is drivers’ interaction with pedestrians affected by cognitive load and LED bands? A driving simulator study investigating performance across two age groups during different ambient lighting conditions> now published in TRF.

The 20th RS5C conference officially concluded! ✅ What a joy to co-organise with the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI). Massive thanks to the organising & scientific committees, our brilliant volunteers, and every author and 218 delegates who joined us from 37 countries 🌎

We’ve wrapped the pre- #RS5C conference Virtuocity tours and welcome reception 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who attended today. Can’t wait to kick off the conference tomorrow! 🏵

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• Males showed higher levels of perceived behavioural control and behavioural intention compared to their female counterparts.

• Attitudes and perceived behavioural control were positively associated with behavioural intention for users and non-users.

🔑 Highlights

• Attitudes and behavioural intentions of individuals in Türkiye towards the use of e-scooters were investigated.

• Users demonstrated greater levels of perceived behavioural control, usefulness, and behavioural intention than non-users.

🛴 New Publication! I’m delighted to share our new article “Exploring attitudes and behavioural intentions towards e-scooter use in Türkiye: Differences between users and non-users” with @nazliakay.bsky.social, published in the Journal of Transport Geography.

📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

🚦 Today, our team was proud to take part in the Vision Zero Conference organised by Leeds City Council at Millennium Square.

🎤 Yue Yang presented our The Road Safety Trust–funded project "Autistic Children Matter" (led by Yee Mun Lee)

@envleeds.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Full text: doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

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