Integrated VehicleBased Safety Systems

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Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems

• ITS JPO Lead Ray Resendes, FHWA
• Technical Lead Jack Ference, NHTSA

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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

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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

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Goals

• Overall Goal To accelerate introduction of
  integrated vehicle-based safety systems into the
  Nations 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

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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

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Roadmap
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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
• FY04-FY09

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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