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Professor Oliver Carsten

Professor of Transport Safety

Phone:
Room: 104 (41 UR)
Email: O.M.J.Carsten@its.leeds.ac.uk_

Education

B.A., Modern History, Oxford University, 1969
M.A., History, The University of Michigan, 1973
Ph.D., History, The University of Michigan, 1981

Employment History

2003–present: Professor of Transport Safety, ITS
1993–2002: Principal Research Fellow, ITS
1989–1993: Senior Research Fellow, ITS
1987–1989: Research Fellow, ITS
1985–1987: Assistant Research Scientist, Statistical Research Group, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)
1977–1985: Research Assistant/Associate, Senior Research Associate UMTRI

Key Research Interests

New technology and safety; driver assistance systems; speed management; driver distraction; the design and use of driving simulators for safety research; road traffic accident causation.

Research Projects and Experience

An Intelligent Traffic System for Vulnerable Road Users (Commission of the European Communities, DRIVE I, 1989-91)
VRU-TOO: Vulnerable Road User Traffic Observation and Optimization (Commission of the European Communities, DRIVE II, 1991-94)
HOPES: Horizontal Project for the Evaluation of Safety (Commission of the European Communities, DRIVE II, 1991-95)
Speed on Rural Arterial Roads (SERC, 1993-94)
Response to Automatic Speed Control in Urban Areas (EPSRC, 1994-96)
HINT: Human Implications of New Technologies (European Union DG VII, Transport Research Programme, 1997-98)
New Technologies for Preventing Accidents at Junctions (EPSRC, 1997-99).
External Vehicle Speed Control (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-99)
Intelligent Speed Adaptation (Department for Transport, 2000–2006)
HASTE: HMI And the Safety of Traffic in Europe (EC Fifth Framework Growth Programme, 2002–2004)
EASY: Effects of Automated Systems on Safety (EPSRC, 2007–2009)
Speed Limit Adherence and its Effect on Road Safety and Climate Change (Commission for Integrated Transport, 2007–2008)

Professional Engagements

Chair of Road User Behaviour Working Party of Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. PACTS provides advice to Parliament and the Government on safety policy.
Expert advisor to the European Transport Safety Council. ETSC provides advice to the European Commission and the European Parliament on safety policy.
Member of Programme Management Panel of UK Foresight Vehicle Research Programme
Chair of International Working Group on Speed Control (IWGOSC is the collaboration of the various national research projects in Intelligent Speed Adaptation)

Teaching

Lecturer in Masters module on Safety of Transportation

Selected Publications

Carsten, O.M.J. (1999). New evaluation methods: progress or blind alley? Transportation Human Factors, 1(2): 177–186.
Carsten, O.M.J., Sherborne, D.J. and Rothengatter, J.A. (1999). Intelligent traffic signals for pedestrians: evaluation of trials in three countries. Transportation Research Part C – Emerging Technologies, 6(4): 213–229.
Carsten, O.M.J. (2000). New technologies and behaviour — problem or cure? In: H. von Holst, A. Nygren and A.E. Andersson (eds.), Transportation, Traffic Safety and Health – Human Behaviour. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Carsten, O.M.J. and Nilsson, L. (2001). Safety assessment of driver assistance systems. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 1(3): 225–243.
Carsten, O. (2002). Multiple perspectives. In: R. Fuller and A.G. Santos (eds.), Human Factors for Highway Engineers. Oxford: Pergamon.
Carsten, O.M.J. and Tate, F.N. (2005). Intelligent speed adaptation: accident savings and cost–benefit analysis. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 37(3): 407-416.
Carsten, O. and Brookhuis, K. (2005). Issues arising from the HASTE experiments. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 8(2): 191-196.
Carsten, O. (2005). Mind over matter: who’s controlling the vehicle and how do we know. In: G. Underwood (ed.), Traffic and Transport Psychology: Theory and Application. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Carsten, O. (2007). From driver models to modelling the driver: what do we really need to know about the driver. In: P. Carlo Cacciabue (ed.), Modelling driver behaviour in automotive environments: critical issues in driver interactions with intelligent transport systems, pp. 105-120 London: Springer.

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