Jonas Bärgman

Jonas Bärgman is a Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, leading the Safety Evaluation research group within the Division of Vehicle Safety at the Mechanics and Maritime Department. His work focuses on understanding traffic safety through interdisciplinary research involving driver behavior, vehicle automation, and environmental factors in pre-crash scenarios.

Key research themes include:

• Quantifying driver comfort zone boundaries using naturalistic driving data
• Developing counterfactual simulation methods for safety impact assessment
• Analyzing crash causation mechanisms and driver response modeling
• Integrating human factors into automated vehicle development

Recent publications demonstrate expertise in:

• Automated emergency braking algorithms
• Lane change dynamics and timing
• Crash scenario generation across severity ranges
• Bayesian modeling of driver behavior
• Validation of human benchmark models for AV approval

He actively contributes to:

• Teaching Vehicle and Traffic Safety (TME202 masters course
• Lecturing on Active Safety systems
• International standardization through ISO participation
• Collaborative research projects like SENSI, V4SAFETY, and SHAPE-IT