PACTS Road User Behaviour Working Party (RUBWP)

Ashleigh Filtness, PhD, Chair, RUBWP

Ashleigh Filtness, PhD is a Professor of Transport Human Factors and Sleep Science at Loughborough University, where she works at the Transport Safety Research Centre, SDCA.  Ashleigh is fascinated by sleepiness and fatigue and their impact on safety. She has spent over 17 years’ performing transportation safety research and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Since completing her PhD in 2011 on ‘Obstructive sleep apnoea and daytime driver sleepiness’, Professor Filtness has continued her fatigue research working in the Human Factors groups at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (Melbourne) and the Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Accident Research and Road safety (Brisbane) in Australia before moving to the Transport Safety Research Centre at Loughborough University in 2016. Her research seeks to better understand the situations that contribute to sleepiness/fatigue and how these can best be managed to reduce the impact on safety. She specialises in vehicle operator impairment in road, rail and maritime transport and has a wealth of experience conducting competitively funded research, industry and government funded projects seeking to improve safety. You can find out more about her work  here Professor Ashleigh Filtness | Inaugural Lectures | Loughborough University

 

Dr Ruth Madigan , Vice Chair, RUBWP

Dr Ruth Madigan is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. She is a Human Factors specialist with a background in applied psychological research, focused on understanding human-vehicle interactions and training requirements for drivers and other road users. Across her research she uses psychological concepts and theories to further our understanding of human behaviour in the road environment, making use of a variety of conventional and novel methodologies to do so. She has worked on projects from a wide range of funders including the DfT, the Road Safety Trust, and the EU Commission, and has published over 50 research articles in academic journals. She is an associate editor at IET Intelligent Transport Systems, and is also an active member of the ISO Working Group on Human-Vehicle Interaction.