In 2009, 9108 vulnerable road users (VRUs; pedestrians and bicyclists) died in the EU and 4722 in the US. Active safety systems, that is intelligent systems able to predict and prevent crashes, may significantly help to reduce VRU fatalities and injuries; however, current active safety systems for VRUs are only found on high-end vehicles, only support the host vehicle driver, and do not make use of wireless communication. The scope of this study is to describe the set-up and real-world verification of a platform to enable active safety systems for VRU. This platform is carried by VRUs and may support multiple road users using wireless communication. A simple conceptual application, addressing pedestrian safety at crossings, was developed to test the platform. This application was not cooperative (i.e. did not support multiple road users with wireless communication). The results presented in this study suggest that such a platform can be employed (i) as a logger for naturalistic studies on VRUs, (ii) to better understand VRU behaviour and accident causation and (iii) as a basis for the development of novel active safety applications, running on portable devices, such as future generation smart phones, and possibly enabled by wireless communication.
Platform enabling intelligent safety applications for vulnerable road users
IET Intelligent Transport Systems ; 8 , 4 ; 368-376
2014-06-01
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
intelligent safety application , crash prevention , road safety , crash prediction , wireless communication , automated highways , digital sensor , sensors , zebra crossing , accident database , acoustic feedback , accident prevention , VRU behaviour , haptic interfaces , active safety system , high-end vehicle , radiocommunication , analog sensor , visual feedback , traffic engineering computing , vulnerable road user , tactile feedback , accident causation , cooperative application
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