Due to the non-existence of a specific conference focused on safety and usability of vehicle information and communication technologies, the HUMANIST NoE decided in 2008 to set up a European conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems.
The aim is to gather the community of Human Factors researchers, to offer an overview of the current developments and trends and to create an area for discussions and debates on these topics.
The first conference was held on 3 and 4 April 2008 in Lyon, France.
It was successful with 120 participants from Europe but also from Japan, Australia, Canada, USA.
The second European conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems was held in Berlin on 29 and 30 April 2010.
The conference was highly successful with 60 papers presented and prompted the responsible actors to plan a third conference in 2012.
The 2010 conference attracted more than 110 attendees form universities, industry, and governmental and private research institutes located in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia.