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Safety Goals and Focus Areas
Goal
Safety: Achieve measurable reduction in crashes, injuries, fatalities, and the associated economic costs
Focus Area
- Networked/Intelligent Vehicle - Create capability for all vehicles to have 360 degree awareness of hazards and communicate appropriately with drivers. This includes:
- Vehicle to vehicle
- Vehicle to infrastructure
- Communicate appropriately between the driver and the vehicle
Objectives
- Establish architecture and standards to promote interoperability across OEMs and jurisdictions
- Develop enabling technology building blocks
- Develop applications
- Ensure appropriate driver behavior and driver acceptance
- Quantify benefits
- Define a realizable business model for deployment
- Establish operational rules and governance policies
- Accelerate market penetration
- Facilitate targeted infrastructure deployment with a focus on high payoff locations
- Assess opportunities and requirements for longer term safety and mobility enhancements through the possible evolution toward autonomous vehicle control
Metrics
- Reduction in crashes, fatalities, and injuries
- Safety effectiveness
- % of targeted crash problem being addressed
- Measures of effectiveness for each application
- Deployment metric
- Communication technology available
- X% of new vehicle fleet instrumented
- Y% of existing vehicles
- Z% of targeted infrastructure instrumented
- Effective applications commercially available
- X% of vehicles using… (either list for each app or define by percentage of safety problem being addressed)
- infrastructure application XYZ deployed at Y% of target locations (list of various safety applications)
- Longer Range Opportunities
- Strategic plan and program elements identified for longer term and broader (more locations and safety problem types) safety enhancements
- Position research for future mobility applications achievable through autonomous vehicle control
- Improved customer satisfaction regarding safety and reliability of Connected Vehicles
Federal Role
- Convening industry and academia to develop and implement research or applications
- Coordinate with States on infrastructure needs and deployment
- Conduct high-risk exploratory advanced research
- Provide leadership in defining priority areas
- Attract telecommunication, insurance, and other related industries as contributing parties
- Establish public-private partnership opportunities
- Allow use of Federal-aid funding for infrastructure improvements (100% for certain safety related projects)
- Lead development of standards
- Regulate only where necessary, such as frequency band and high safety applications
Not Federal Role
- Create new financial programs to pay for private sector investments
- Establishing “how” internal systems should function
- Autonomous single technology safety applications
Strategies
- Leverage Exploratory Advanced Research program results
- Leverage UTC research initiatives and external basic science results
- Develop and validate effective applications
- Conduct reliable benefit/cost analyses
- Leverage automotive industry technical expertise
- Accelerate vehicle introduction:
- Leveraging retrofit and aftermarket
- Use NHTSA NCAP process for getting stars
- Possible use of regulation
- Recommended practice for high hazard or focused locations
- Attract telecommunication and other related industries
- Leveraging current industry implementations
Please e-mail your comments to JPO.Director@dot.gov
Updated
April 23, 2008 11:33 AM
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