Venue: Vakwerkhuis, Delft

Venue: Room-31.C1.060

Cycling satisfaction is a key factor in increasing cycling mode share, particularly in low-cycling contexts such as England. Satisfaction is subjective and shaped by both observable conditions and unobserved psychological factors. One important but understudied factor is harassment, which can take many forms (e.g., verbal, physical, sexual, racial, or identity-based) and may strongly influence cyclists’ experiences. This study develops a quantitative framework to examine how harassment affects cycling satisfaction through a latent variable representing harassment-related experiences, using survey data from 1,525 cyclists in London. Results show that cyclists who feel stressed, unsafe, or threatened are significantly more likely to report dissatisfaction, even after controlling for socio-demographic factors. Harassment-related perceptions are strongly associated with traffic exposure, lighting conditions, and accumulated near-miss or collision experiences. These findings demonstrate that cycling satisfaction is significantly associated with harassment-related perceptions and highlight the need to incorporate harassment-sensitive measures into cycling level-of-service evaluations.


Kind regards,
Dr. Amir Pooyan Afghari
Assistant Professor of Probabilistic Methods in Transport Safety

Venue: C1-060

Prof Nurl Indarti from the Universitas Gadjah Mada is visiting us in the light of a joint research project on the Health care system in Indonesia.

This presentation examines the development of frugal innovation research in healthcare through a Bibliometric-Systematic Literature Review (B-SLR).
The analysis identifies three phases in the development of the field, including incubation (2012- 2016), expansion (2017-2019), and fluctuating consolidation (2020-2026) and four major thematic clusters: frugal innovation in healthcare services; cross-context transfer and learning; the capacity gap between LMICs and HICs; and the provision, quality, and diffusion of global healthcare
services.
The findings reveal important gaps. The field remains theoretically fragmented, with no dominant theoretical framework; research is still largely qualitative and case-based; and empirical studies are concentrated in India and Europe, while Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific remain underrepresented. Long-term scalability, particularly beyond donor or external funding, also remains a major challenge.
Building on these findings, the presentation proposes a future research agenda focused on stronger theoretical integration, comparative LMIC-HIC studies, longitudinal and mixed-method designs, participatory co-design, digital and AI-enabled frugal healthcare, and the sustainability of innovation beyond donor support. These gaps open clear opportunities for cross-country and
interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly in underexplored contexts such as Southeast Asia.

Venue: Aula

Mark your calendar for our upcoming EPT Section Day
Join us for a day full of engaging and valuable activities!

More exciting details will follow soon.

Regards,
Nynke Boiten, Ryan Timms and Monica Natanael

Recent developments in the AI world have brought attention to the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems. In July, autonomous OpenAI agents conducting cybersecurity evaluations circumvented containment measures and compromised systems at Hugging Face. Recent warnings from Anthropic researchers have explicitly raised the possibility that advanced AI could pose an extinction-level risk, prompting concerns about stricter oversight and safeguards. In this cluster meeting, we will have a panel disucssion on what these recent incidents tell us about emerging risks from agentic AI, what it means for worries about alignment, accountability and regulation, and how seriously we should take extreme future risks into both our technical and ethical assessments.

Feel free to join us for a lively discussion! If you'd like to keep informed about the Risk & Uncertainty Cluster, feel free to email Kritika (k.maheshwari@tudelft.nl)

Venue: C1-060