Project launch: from cognitive science to the new generation of "PSTs
On January 11, a collaborative research project between the RAILENIUM Institute of Technological Research, SNCF, SNCF Réseau, SCLE and the LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201 research laboratory of the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France was launched at the IRT premises in Saint-Denis.
His objective? To design, test, and develop a new generation of "Public Crossings of Railroads" (PTRs) based on the analysis and understanding of human behavior.
.The teams gathered around this project will thus aim to set up a mixed reality test platform (scale model 1 and virtual reality deployed on the Arenberg Creative Mines site near Valenciennes) to test the impact of new PST concepts on the cognitive, physiological and biomechanical behaviors of travelers. The results will allow the selection of the best prototypes to be tested on a dedicated railway site to lead to a new generation of TVP.
As specialists in human movement sciences, members of the LAMIH research team will perform a biomechanical analysis of users' behaviors and motor patterns as they approach and cross the TVPs.
This will include a better understanding of the behavior of various user profiles in relation to different safety devices.