Lisa Molnar
Biography
Research Associate Professor – The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)
Dr. Molnar’s research has focused primarily on traffic safety and driver behavior. Specific topics of interest include older driver safety and mobility; the use of vehicle technology to improve driver safety; behavioral effects and safety outcomes associated with traffic laws, policies, and programs; adolescent driving behavior; prevention of alcohol-impaired driving; and use and misuse of safety belts and child safety seats. In the area of older driver safety and mobility, she had led or currently leads projects on better understanding how changes in cognitive, perceptual, and psychomotor abilities can affect driving behavior and what can be done to maintain safe driving. She also recently led a project examining age differences in the transfer of control between manual and automated driving in an automated vehicle.
Their Research
| Guidelines for Development of Evidence-Based Countermeasures for Risky Driving |
| Principal Investigator: Lisa Molnar Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors |
| Practice-Ready Guidelines for Training Older Adults to Use Connected and Automated Vehicles: Testing of an Enhanced Training Program at Mcity Test Facility and the Goodyear Test Track |
| Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Molnar & Ping Yi Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Promoting Inclusive Design and Deployment of Connected and Automated Vehicles for Older Adults Through Education and Training of Engineering Students and Older Drivers |
| Principal Investigator: Lisa Molnar, Feng Zhou, David W. Eby, Carol Flannagan, & Ping Yi Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors |