Richard van der HORST

CURRICULUM VITAE

Qualifications

• Graduation at the Saint Franciscus College (Gymnasium - ß) in 1967,
• MSc in Electrical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in 1973.
• PhD in Science at the Delft University of Technology in 1990.

Professional activities

• At the Automatic Traffic Systems Laboratory of Delft University theoretical work on the optimal setting of traffic control signals.
• TNO Institute for Perception performance of military services in 1974.
• Since 1975 working at TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, The Netherlands, first as researcher and project leader for human factors research in road traffic at the Traffic Behaviour Research Group.
• In 1988 spent one year in Canada conducting experimental research at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. with special interest in the direct use of time measures by road users in every-day traffic, such as Time-To-Collision and Time-To-Intersection.
• From 1994-1996 Marketing and Programming Manager of TNO Human Factors
• From 1997-2004 head of the Department of Skilled Behaviour
• Now acting as central business developer in the field of Traffic and Transport for the focus area TNO Defence, Security and Safety that also includes the Business Unit Human Factors in Soesterberg.

Research areas include

• Several studies on human decision-making processes in relationship with road environment and other road users (gap-acceptance, obedience to traffic signals, intersection negotiation, traffic conflicts)
• The evaluation and assessment of traffic management measures, in-car driver support systems and road design in terms of road user behaviour, performance, workload and acceptance and safety.
• Development of a video-based analysis method enabling an objective quantification of the dynamic characteristics of road user behaviour in various traffic situations.
• Co-operative road-vehicle systems and development of integrated set of tools (TNO driving simulator, INCA, VEHIL, PRESCAN, MARS, PRAMICS, ITS Modeller) to develop, test, assess, and evaluate co-operative systems in terms of throughput, safety, and environmental impact.

Recent publications

• A.R.A. van der Horst, C. Hydén, R. Kulmala, & R. Risser. (2004) 16. ICTCT Workshop: Bessere Verkehrssicherheit durch die Verbindung von Forschung mit Sicherheitspolitik und Management. Zeitschrift fur Verkehrssicherheit 2004 (2) : 51-52
• A.R.A. van der Horst, & P. Bakker. (2004) Safety measures at railway level crossings and road user behaviour. 8th International level crossing symposium Sheffield, UK, 14-16 April 2004
• A.R.A. van der Horst. (2004) Occlusion as a measure for visual workload: an overview of TNO occlusion research in car driving. Applied ergonomics 2004 ; vol 35 (3) : 189-196
• A.R.A. van der Horst, M.P. Hagenzieker. (2002) Report of the European Workshop on International Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems. (TNO report TM - 02 - D009). Soesterberg: TNO Human Factors.
• R. van der Horst. (2002) Assessing in-vehicle HMI : the development of user-based safety criteria. Presentation at the DaimlerChrysler expert hearing on human machine interaction. 8-9 April 2002.
• A.P. de Vos, A.R.A. van der Horst, M. Perel. (2001) Non-planar Rearview Mirrors: The Influence of Experience and Driver Age on Gap Acceptance and Vehicle Detection. SAE Lighting Technology Developments for Automobiles. 2001 ; vol 321 (jan) : 77-89

Last updated: 2005-06-20