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Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems Initiative
Slide 1. Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems Initiative
ITS JPO Lead: Steve Sill, FHWA
Technical Lead: Jack Ference, NHTSA
Slide 2. Challenge
- Over 3.6 million rear-end, run-off-the-road, and lane-change crashes
occur every year
- Of these, about 27,500 crashes result in one or more fatalities
Slide 3. Opportunity
- Rear-end, run-off-the-road, and lane-change crash countermeasure systems could prevent over 48% targeted crashes or 1,836,000 crashes annually
- Integration of existing collision avoidance systems could result in systems with significantly improved effectiveness
Slide 4. Goals
- Overall Goal: To accelerate introduction of integrated vehicle-based safety systems into the Nation's vehicle fleet
- Objectives:
- Establish a partnership between the U.S. DOT and the automotive, commercial vehicle, and transit vehicle industries involving a wide range of stakeholders
- Facilitate introduction and commercialization of effective integrated systems in these markets
- Support the U.S. DOT role in advancing safety product deployment
Slide 5. Milestone/End Product
- All new vehicles will be equipped with integrated safety systems that help them effectively avoid the most common types of deadly crashes
- Fewer, less severe crashes
- Fewer injuries and fatalities
- Reduced impacts of crashes on transportation systems
Slide 6. Roadmap
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Slide 7. Program Plan/Approach
- The Initiative consists of five tasks:
- Task 1: Preparatory Analyses
- Task 2: System Design
- Task 3: Build Prototype Vehicles
- Task 4: Conduct Field Operational Test (FOT)
- Task 5: Perform Evaluation
- Duration of Initiative
Slide 8. Task 1: Preparatory Analyses
- Goal: To shape the activities and tasks of this initiative
- Actions:
- Solicit stakeholder and industry input
- Develop functional and evaluation requirements
- Conduct technical reviews of current systems
- Investigate preliminary driver-vehicle interface (DVI) concepts
- Assess business case and deployment potential
- Prepare program execution strategy
Slide 9. Task 2: System Design
- Goal: To develop operational concepts, performance specifications, and test procedures for the integrated system
- Actions:
- Develop performance specifications
- Design, build and test sensor subsystems
- Design, build and test threat assessment algorithms
- Design, build and test driver-vehicle interface (DVI)
- Develop objective test procedures
Slide 10. Task 3: Build Prototype Vehicles
- Goal: Create prototype integrated safety systems and vehicles to be used to test system effectiveness
- Actions:
- Design and build data acquisition systems
- Integrate subsystems and build prototype vehicles
- Conduct objective test procedures
- Validate performance of prototype vehicles
- Finalize design and build vehicles to be used in field operational test (FOT)
Slide 11. Task 4: Conduct Field Operational Test (FOT)
- Goal: Conduct tests of prototype vehicles and integrated safety systems using simulators, test tracks and naturalistic driving methodologies
- Actions:
- Devise FOT concepts
- Recruit test subjects
- Build vehicle fleet
- Conduct pilot test
- Conduct FOT
Slide 12. Task 5: Perform Evaluation
- Goal: Evaluate the effectiveness of program activities and the FOT process
- Actions:
- Devise evaluation strategy
- Develop evaluation plan
- Develop analysis methods
- Build database and tools
- Analyze data and create report
Note that evaluation will take place concurrently with the overall Program
Slide 13. Summary
- Significant safety benefits accrue when integrated systems are utilized
- Working closely with automotive, heavy truck, and transit bus industries to create the optimum system for each vehicle type
- Leveraging past investments and research in the intelligent vehicle arena to advance work in integrating systems
- Building a better, more versatile, system at a lower cost, quicker availability, and with increased consumer acceptance
Updated
August 20, 2008 10:23 AM
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