Thursday, 18 February 2016

Towards a European Road Safety Area

PART III: ROAD USERS, CAR MANUFACTURERS AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS

PUBLIC HEARING – 16 FEBRUARY 2016 - BRUSSELS

Gianfranco BurzioSafety Director

ACEA MEMBERS

ACEA CV MEMBERS

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EVOLUTION OF ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, INJURED

ROAD SAFETY TRENDS IN EUROPE

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COUNTRIES

Sweden and the UK have 50% fewer fatalities when compared to the EU average and to countries with similar vehicle fleets and road infrastructure, such as Austria and Belgium.

INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR ROAD SAFETY

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Role of the vehicle– Yesterday: reduce the accident consequences. Passive safety

– Today: + help the driver to avoid accidents. Active safety

– Tomorrow: avoid accidents with vehicle automation

Technologies have limits:– Performance, Efficiency

– Costs

Three main actors: – Driver; road infrastucture; vehicle

Each element is responsible of different accident factors and can contribute to reduce accidents and their consequences

Potential of non-technical solution to improve road safety not fully exploited

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DRIVER - INFRASTRUCTUREDriver behaviour is at the origin of the majority of accidents. Improvements through education, training and enforcement

From the final report Evaluation of 2+1 roads with cable barriers. VTI rapport 636A - 2009

Infrastructures help to avoid accidents and/or reduce the consequences. Improvements through better design and maintenance.

In 1998 the Swedish Road Administration began a development programme called ‘collision-free roads’. With cable barriers:

Fatalities were reduced by 76%.

Average speed slightly increased

– (+2km/h on 90 km/h roads)

Capacity reduced

– (-300 v/h, due to 2 to 1 transition)

Limited cost increase

– (about 10,000 €/Km/year max)

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ACTIVE SAFETY – DRIVER ASSISTANCE

Active safety is the intervention of the vehicle, on steering or braking, to avoid accidents or to reduce consequences.

1. Advanced Emergency Braking (AEB) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW) on commercial vehicles.

2. AEB and LDW/LKA (Lane Keeping Assist) in Euro NCAP.

3. AEB for pedestrian test included in Euro NCAP in 2016.

4. Further active safety measures now considered in the General Safety Regulation revision.

5. ACEA members supported the definition of realistic testing scenario, they developed in 2015 an articulated pedestrian dummy .

• Vehicleo Inform the driver of the vehicle speed

o Help the driver to keep the desired speed (Cruise Control), considering the traffic (Adaptive Cruise Control)

o Inform the driver of the current speed limit, if available and reliable

• Challengeso Uniform criteria for speed limits across Europe (acceptability)

o Infrastructure to provide the speed limit information to the vehicle

• Driver is in the primarycontrol of the vehicle

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SPEED

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DRUNK DRIVING

Drunk driving is a road safety problem

Available technologies invasive for their extensive applications:

– driver acceptability

– efficiency

Short term: enforcement and alcohol interlock in offenders programmes

– Manufacturers: ensure all vehicles in future can be equipped with alcohol interlock.

– Standard installation sheet, CEN 50436-7, defined with vehicle manufacturers.

Medium to long term: non-invasive solutions

– Vehicle manufacturers’ project in US:DADDS, Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety

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AVERAGE AGE OF THE EU CAR FLEET

9.7 years needed to reach penetration of 50%

1. Major road safety improvements are possible through improvements in driver behaviour and infrastructure

2. On vehicles, further improvements of passive safety difficult since it has reached its limits, focus now on active safety systems, such as driver assistance systems, available in the newest vehicle models

3. Infrastructure shows interesting potential for road safety improvements

4. Impacts are different looking at driver (immediate benefits), infrastructure (immediate benefits but locally) and vehicle (not immediate, only for new vehicles)

5. Connectivity allows a further step in road safety, with the active cooperation of all stakeholders, vehicles, drivers and infrastructure

6. Vehicle automation is a very interesting solution in the medium/long term

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CONCLUSIONS

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