Roadway Safety Panel

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Roadway Safety Panel

• How can ITS assist in bridging vehicle technology
  with roadway design and function?

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Acknowledgements

• FHWA ITS Office
• Jeff Paniati
• Bill Jones

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National Safety Challenge

• Nearly 43,000 deaths per year from automobile
  accidents
• 3 million people injured
• Automobile accidents cost 230B
• Federal State DOT Goal
• reduce fatalities to fewer than 1 per every 100
  million vehicle miles traveled by 2008
• ITS America has established a vision for zero
  fatalities

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Current Research
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Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI)

• Reduce motor vehicle crashes by accelerating
  the development of driver assistance safety
  products

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Major IVI Initiatives

• Naturalistic Driver Study
• Rear End Collision Avoidance System Field
  Operational Test
• Road Departure Collision Avoidance System Field
  Operational Test
• Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative Intersection
  Research

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IVI RESULTS

• Auto Companies Concluded
• Vehicle/Infrastructure Cooperation is
  Essential For
• Intersection Collision Prevention
• Lane Departure Prevention
• These 2 Account for 75 of
• Vehicle Crashes

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New Opportunity
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Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)

• Confluence of three areas.
• Intelligent Vehicle Initiative crash avoidance
• Emphasis on improved operations
• Evolution in telecommunications technology

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The Concept

• A cooperative public-private venture between auto
  industry and the USDOT / State Departments of
  Transportation
• Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) install
  communications link in all new vehicles
• On Board Units (OBU)
• Public sector facilitates installation of
  communications link on roadside
• Road Side Units (RSU)

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Equal Opportunity

• PUBLIC SECTOR
• Obtain Data on Roadways to
• Improve Operations, Maint., etc. --
• Implement Early Safety Features
• Ultimately Crash Prevention
• PRIVATE SECTOR
• Auto Companies
• A New Business Services to Their
• Customers Safer Vehicles
• Other Businesses

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VII Communications
Private
Sector
Data Base
Uses
Communication
Hot Spot (DSRC)
Satellite to
Vehicle
(GPS)
Vehicle
-
to
-
Vehicle
-
Roadside
to
-
(DSRC)
Vehicle
( DSRC)
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Vehicle to Roadside Communication -- DSRC

• FCC has allocated 75MHz for
• Safety Applications (1st priority)
• Private Applications
• DSRC Key Standards Complete
• FCC ruled on licensing (Dec., 2003)
• Testing new DSRC devices in 2004

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HOW IS DATA USED BY PUBLIC SECTOR

• Safety - Early Uses
• Intersection Collision Warning
• Emergency Vehicle Signal Pre-emption
• Safety - Later
• Intersection Collision Prevention
• Lane Departure Prevention

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HOW IS DATA USEDBY PRIVATE SECTOR

• Auto Co.s Provide Services to
• Drivers (Their Customers)
• Traveler Info
• Drive-Thru Payment Gas, Food, Banking
• Download Files, Infotainment
• Diagnostic Data

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Expected VII Benefits

• Enables safety applications
• Provides data key to improved mobility
• Enables new private businesses

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A WIN - WIN

• Public Gets
• Safety Technology
• Potentially Preventing 75 of all
• Fatalities
• Better Managed Transportation
• Network
• Auto Co.s Get
• A New Business Opportunity
• Safer Vehicles

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Some Examples

• Traditional
• Road Departure
• Construct rumble strips on shoulders
• Signage
• Speed Limits
• Install post and mount sign

• VII Concept
• Road Departure
• Use GIS/GPS Technology to develop virtual rumble
  strips
• Signage
• Use GIS/GPS Sign Inventory and post sign messages
  on heads-up display.

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VII There Are Issues

• Outreach
• Who else needs to be part of the discussion?
• Business Models / Plan
• Who will own, install, and operate the
  communications system?
• How will it be paid for / self-sustaining?
• Nationwide Deployment all roads, both urban
  rural
• Architecture
• Who will own and operate the database?
• How will the data flow from the vehicle to the
  roadside and to a central server?
• Privacy Who owns the data?

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VII Next Steps

• Short-Term
• Develop Roadmap / Plan
• Prepare Conceptual System Design
• Initiate DSRC Tests
• Formalize Government-Industry Partnership

• Long-Term
• Demonstrations
• Operational Tests
• Synchronized Deployment

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The Key Public-Private Partnership

• Industries
• Transportation Sector
• Automotive Industry
• America - Europe - Asia Pacific