448 Pages
by CRC Press

The Automotive Safety 2026 proceedings presents a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the 15th International Conference Automotive Safety, held in Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, on May 5–8, 2026. The conference brings together academics, researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers to discuss advances in vehicle safety, intelligent transport systems, biomechanics of road accidents,... Read more

Session 1. Systemic approaches to road safety: Human factors, law and risk modelling

 

Information security and logistics performance as factors of road freight safety in the eu: a correlation analysis

Vladimír Konečný, Kristína Kavuličová, Dominika Jonasíková

 

Road freight transport safety in the context of countries' logistics performance

Vladimír Konečný, Dominika Jonasíková, Karolína Ujlacká

 

Impact of individual road traffic factors on safety

Miloš Poliak, Laura Škorvánková, Zhang Shuichao

 

The role of public investment and tax instruments in road safety in slovakia

Adela Poliakova, Jakub Malik

 

Driver fatigue as a consequence of work organization and its impact on transport safety

Miloš Poliak, Lilla Kiss, Yizhe Huang

 

Analysis of the monthly number of road accidents in poland (2022–2024)

Robert Szczur, Anna Borucka, Patrycja Guzanek

 

Neural networks in assessing injury severity in truck accidents with stationary vehicles in poland (2015–2024)

Edward Kozłowski, Mateusz Traczyński, Przemysław Skoczyński, Piotr Jaskowski, Radovan Madlenak

 

Safety implications of last-mile delivery vehicles in urban traffic: a statistical approach

Miloš Poliak, Jozef Gnap, Lenka Iľašová

 

Advanced methods for documentation of traffic accidents and accident scenes and their application in accident reconstruction

Ronny Fleck, Tibor Kubjatko, Jörg Schröder, Klaus-Dieter Brösdorf

 

Session 2. Passive safety systems and biomechanics of occupant protection

 

Finite element simulation of energy dissipation in pedestrian protection components

Przemysław Rumianek, Jarosław Seńko, Katarzyna Stańko-Pająk, Sebastian Krakowiak, Seweryn Koziak

 

Biomechanical evaluation of seat component interactions in rear-end collision conditions

Wanda Górniak

 

Deformation analysis of a child seat cover during a road traffic collision

Joanna Borowiecka-Jamrozek, Piotr Thomas, Marek Jaśkiewicz, Damian Frej

 

Experimental evaluation of multi-axial accelerations in child restraint systems during road obstacle excitation

Damian Frej, Rafał Jurecki, Emilia Szumska

 

Determination of the susceptibility of a child seat shell to deformation during a compression test

Marek Jaśkiewicz, Joanna Borowiecka-Jamrozek, Piotr Thomas, Damian Frej

 

Experimental analysis of child seat mounting base accelerations during driving on a good-quality asphalt road under different load and orientation conditions

Marek Jaśkiewicz, Rafał Jurecki, Antoni Bańkowski, Michał Gruszczyński

 

Session 3. Traffic engineering, infrastructure design and sustainable urban mobility

 

Modelling the impact of pedestrian and cyclist flows on the operational performance of an urban roundabout

Alica Kalašová, Dominik Krčmár, Marián Gogola

 

Safety-oriented evaluation of signalized intersections through economic and time-loss indicators

Alica Kalašová, Peter Fabian, Kristián Čulík

 

Operational impact of urban air mobility at signalized urban intersections: a microsimulation study

Alica Kalašová, Kristián Čulík, Peter Fabian, Dominik Krčmár, Yizhe Huang

 

Determining the impact of heavy vehicles on the traffic flow

Kristián Čulík, Alica Kalašová, Peter Fabian, Shuichao Zhang

 

Multiscale analysis of road traffic intensity seasonality

Ewa Cukier, Anna Borucka, Paulina Guzanek, Joanna Antczak

 

The impact of the height compatibility of loading docks and vehicles on handling safety and the transport process

Miloš Poliak, Dominika Rovňaníková, Michal Loman

 

Session 4. Vehicle dynamics and operational stability

 

Tests of vertical acceleration on the seat of a child seat when driving through speed bumps along with a change in the height of the suspension of a passenger car

Paweł Grabski, Damian Frej, Rafał Jurecki, Emilia Szumska

 

Analysis of the influence of the passenger car type on the vertical acceleration curves measured on the second row of seats

Dariusz Kurczyński, Andrzej Zuska, Piotr Łagowski, Damian Frej

 

Spatial, temporal and infrastructural factors and the risk of serious road collisions

Patrycja Guzanek, Anna Borucka, Dominik Szostak

 

Comparative analysis of accelerations acting on the child seat mounting base in Hyundai Kona and Audi A6 vehicles during off-road driving (unpaved road)

Marek Jaśkiewicz, Tomasz Stańczyk, Katarzyna Ślusarczyk, Krzysztof Podosek

 

Impact of cargo distribution on axle loads and operational safety of a flatbed truck with a hydraulic loader crane: verification by weighing and modelling

Ján Vrábel, Alica Kalašová, Péter Kiss

 

Investigations into the braking behaviour of cars with summer and winter tyres at different temperatures and road conditions

Josh Jubel, Klaus-Dieter Brösdorf, Ronny Fleck, Tibor Kubjatko

 

Rollover safety analysis of small-scale terrain vehicle

Dávid Körmöczi, Branislav Šarkan, Gábor Bércesi, György Pillinger, Péter Kiss

 

Session 5. Automotive diagnostics, environmental safety and intelligent assistive technologies

 

Perspectives on the use of EEG signals and BCI interfaces in driver psychophysical state monitoring systems

Piotr Woś, Ryszard Dindorf

 

Possibilities for diagnosing and detecting faults in road vehicle emission reduction systems

Miloš Poliak, Michal Loman, Dominika Rovňaníková, Péter Kiss

 

Safety comparison of hydrogen, CNG and LPG as alternative fuels in transport

Iveta Kubasáková, Dominik Benčo

 

Evaluation of emission calculators in road freight transport using multi-criteria analysis

Vladimír Konečný, Karolína Ujlacká, Dominika Jonasíková

 

Identification and regulation of road vehicle emissions as a tool for ensuring environmental and public safety through emission zones

Vladimír Konečný, Karolína Ujlacká, Dominika Jonasíková

 

Taxonomy of active safety and driver monitoring systems

Marek Jaśkiewicz, Mateusz Pawełkiewicz

Biography

Marek Jaśkiewicz is member of the Department of Automotive Engineering and Transport at the Kielce University of Technology since 2006. His research focuses on vehicle safety and the biomechanics of human injury in car crashes. Additionally, he explores the dynamics of machines, transport systems, and automotive diagnostics. Professor Jaśkiewicz has a prolific research career with over 230 publications.

Rafał Jurecki received his Doctor of Engineering degree in Machine Construction and Operation with a specialization in Vehicle Dynamics and Construction from the Faculty of Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering at Kielce University of Technology in 2006.  In 2017, he earned his habilitation degree in Transport from the Faculty of Transport at Warsaw University of Technology. Currently, prof. Jurecki serves as the head of the Department of Automotive Engineering and Transport.  A prolific researcher, Prof. Jurecki has authored nearly 180 articles and holds 14 patents. His primary research interests focus on vehicle dynamics modelling, vehicle testing, driver behaviour research and modelling, vehicle diagnostics, and vehicle operation, including electric vehicles.

Emilia M. Szumska holds a Doctor of Science in Transport from Warsaw University of Technology (March 2019). Her doctoral thesis focused on evaluating hybrid propulsion systems for urban buses. Since 2019, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Automotive Engineering and Transport at Kielce University of Technology. Dr. Szumska's research interests focus on electric and hybrid vehicles. She investigates vehicle dynamics and control, design and optimization, energy efficiency analysis, the impact of driving conditions, and life cycle assessments. Her contributions include 59 publications and a patent application.