The UK target is to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in Great Britain in road accidents by 40% and similarly the number of children by 50% by 2010 compared with the average for 1994–8.
New technology provides an opportunity to increase the safety of drivers, vehicle occupants, and other road users. ITS in particular supports the improving road safety agenda in three main ways:
- network management techniques that help to tackle congestion also provide safety benefits and vice versa
- camera technology linked to back-office systems support enforcement of road traffic legislation, including through safety cameras and CCTV, and also help enable prompt remedial action in the event of an accident; and
- in-vehicle ITS developments offer additional safety features to drivers, and there is potential for greater co-operation between vehicles and the road infrastructure to support safety and other objectives
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- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Traffic incident information to on board units
- Vehicle occupancy monitoring
- Vehicle stability systems
- Fusion of radar and vision 360° vehicle sensing
- Occupant injury tolerance sensing and adaptive restraints
- Methods for measuring driver workloads
- HMI development
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- eCall
- Pedestrian/ Vulnerable Road User Protection
- Pedestrian sensing
- Driver intent detection
- Driving impairment monitoring
- Driver alertness sensing linked to vehicle operation
- Driver workload management
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- Adaptive systems for older drivers
- Intelligent speed adaptation (ISA)
- Driver only steers vehicle with speed set and controlled on motorways
- 50% reduction in fatigue related accidents
- 80% predictability of driver behaviour.
- Vehicle system intelligence compensates for human error
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Updated 2 April 2008
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