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Impact assessment of active safety
systems within the field operational
test “euroFOT”
ITS World Congress, Busan 2010
Dipl.-Ing. Mohamed Benmimoun
Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge (IKA)
29th October 2010, Busan
www.eurofot-ip.eu
Agenda
Introduction
The euroFOT project
Methodology
Data analysis
Current status and outlook
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Introduction
Road safety
200%
Kilometers travelled +193%
Fatalities 2009:
Accidents with Injuries • Germany:
Severely injured • 4160
150%
Development compared to 1970 [%]
Fatalities
• In Europe (EU27):
• 34.856
100%
1.Oil crisis 2.Oil crisis German
• Worldwide:
reunification • 1.2 million
50% Source: PIN Report 2010,
Global status report on road safety (WHO)
ABS ESP ACC, LDW
FCW
0% -15%
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Speedlimit 100 Year [-]
on rural roads
-50% Airbag
Seat-belt -57%
Fine 0.5‰
seat-belt -77%
-100%
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Introduction
Purchase criteria
How important are the
following criteria to you
when purchasing a car?
n=502
1 = unimportant - 5 = very important Source: Bosch Safety Survey 2006
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Introduction
Awareness in Europe
Source: Bosch Safety Survey 2006
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Introduction
Awareness
• Consumer awareness is a key element to achieve significant
penetration rates in the market for ITS and eSafety
• Consumer awareness means AWARENESS about:
Problem
Solution
Benefits
Value for personal life
How can we raise the awareness?
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The euroFOT project
History
• Field opErational teSt supporT Action (FESTA)
Collect and publish how to run a FOT
Project end in 2008
• Field Operational Tests in FP7 research program
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (euroFOT)
Mobile Devices (TeleFOT)
• euroFOT
Project start in May 2008
46 month duration till February 2012
28 partners, 22 mio € budget, 14 mio € funding from EC
General Assembly October 2009, September 2010
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The euroFOT project
Consortium
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The euroFOT project
Objectives of the project
• To assess the impacts of ADAS in real traffic, by focusing on the
analysis of:
safety
traffic efficiency
environment
driver behaviour
driver workload
user acceptance
usability
• Cost-benefit analysis, based on results from impact assessment
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The euroFOT project
Tested functions •Longitudinal control functions
Forward Collision Warning (FCW)
Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)
Speed Restriction System (SRS)
•Lateral control functions
Blind Spot Information System
(BLIS)
Lane Departure Warning (LDW)
Impairment Warning (IW)
•Advanced applications
Curve Speed Warning (CSW)
Fuel Efficiency Advisor (FEA)
Safe Human Machine Interaction
(SafeHMI)
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The euroFOT project
Fleet coordination
Swedish-VMC
• VOLVO Trucks
• VOLVO Cars
German1-VMC
• FORD
• MAN
• VW/AUDI
German2-VMC
• DAIMLER AG
• BMW Group
French-VMC
• RENAULT
Italian-VMC
• FIAT
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Methodology & data management
Definition of required signals
Research questions:
e.g. impact of ACC on safety,
environment, traffic efficiency etc.
Hypotheses:
e.g. ACC decreases number of
incidents
Performance indicators
e.g. number of incidents
Signals
e.g. vehicle speed, distance to forward
vehicle, deceleration etc.
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Methodology & data management
Interactions
• Mainly four sub-projects involved:
SP1: Management
SP5: Coordination of
VMCs
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Methodology & data management
Experimental design
• Driver is owner of the FOT vehicle
• First three months will serve as a baseline period
• Within baseline period functions will be deactivated
• Baseline period is followed by treatment period
• Within treatment period functions are activated
• Drivers are free to activate functions as they usually do
• Testing of hypotheses by comparison of baseline vs. treatment period
• Example experimental design MAN:
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Methodology & data management
Approach for data management
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Methodology & data management
Software for data management
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Data analysis
Recognition of relevant scenarios
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Data analysis
Approach
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Current status & Outlook
• Piloting phase completed
• FOT started at the most VMCs in June 2010
• Data collection and processing of data started
• Prioritized hypotheses have been broken down to required signals
and statistical methods
• Methodologies for impact assessment will defined and
implemented by beginning of 2011
• Data analysis (testing of hypotheses) will start by beginning of
next year
• Final results will be available by end of March 2012
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Thank you for your attention…
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