Michael Regan 

Michael Regan is currently on secondment as a Research Director with the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), in Lyon, France, and is expected to return in March 2010. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg , Sweden . Prior to his secondment, Michael was a Senior Research Fellow Level D and Program Manager-Human Factors and Simulation at MUARC. Prior to joining MUARC in 1997, he was the Manager-Road User Behaviour in the Road Safety Department at VicRoads, in Melbourne . Michael is an applied experimental psychologist, with BSc(Hons) and PhD degrees from the Australian National University . His current research interests include driver distraction, human factors in the design and evaluation of intelligent transport systems, human-in-the-loop driving simulation, novice driver and passenger training and human error in road transport. Michael is a past Chairman of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and is the author or co-author of around 190 published articles, reports and papers. He has supervised several PhD students, and is the senior editor and co-author of the first book on driver distraction, to be published in October 2008 by CRC Press. Michael sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, and European Transport Research Review. He sits on two Australian standards committees and is the Australian representative on International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 22, Sub-Committee 13 - Ergonomics Applicable to Road Vehicles. Mike and his previous research team at MUARC have received several road safety-related awards, including the 2005 Australasian College of Road Safety Peter Vulcan Award.

See also INRETS site (in French) www.inrets.fr/ur/lescot/index.php?page=equipe&id=42