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Objectives
IN-SAFETY project aims to use intelligent, intuitive and cost-efficient combinations of new technologies and traditional infrastructure best practice applications, in order to enhance the forgiving and self-explanatory nature of roads, by: |
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- Building consensus on priorities for regulation and standardisation processes with a view to integrate the deployment of ADAS and IVIS on existing road infrastructure.
- Assessing the potential and cost-effectiveness of combined use of such new technologies (ADAS, IVIS) and innovative HMI concepts, to promote the self-explanatory and forgiving character of road environments, including highways, rural roads urban environments.
- Creating comprehensible pictograms to substitute verbal messages as used on roads, focussing on requirements of the TERN (Trans European Road Network), optimising them for impaired visibility conditions and animating them for improved comprehension.
- Optimising verbal messages which cannot be substituted by pictograms with regard to comprehension and harmonization, taking into account the official languages of the EU and the national languages of NAS, their (dis-)similarities and commonly understood international key words.
- Setting up a terminological database for multilingual navigation services.
- Proposing a most suitable typeface for both traditional static and variable messages based on LED and fibre optical displays.
- Proposing rules for the appropriate structuring of information on displayed messages
- Developing and testing new simulation models (microscopic and macroscopic) and risk analysis tools, to pre-estimate and validate the safety and functionality of road environments.
- Harmonising vertical and horizontal signing and furthermore personalising their information to the specific needs and wants of each user.
- Issuing priority implementation scenarios, guidelines for further research and policy recommendations for cost-efficient road environment development, road safety assessment and inspection, including new technological elements.
- Developing and testing new models and tools for performing safety impact related risk analysis of road infrastructure
- Developing training tools and curricula for road and TMIC operators, focusing on the use of new technologies and telematics.
The project work is based on a balanced amalgam of analysis of previous work results and concept, test and report of innovative concepts, in terms of combinations of new technological elements with traditional road infrastructure. These new concepts, along with promising but as yet untested or under-reported solutions, will be realised and extensively tested in 4 inter-related pilots Europewide, covering all road types and including among others key drivers' cohorts, such as tourists, elderly and novice drivers.
Thus, IN-SAFETY ambition is to significantly contribute to road safety enhancement by the optimal and balanced use of available resources. |
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Objectives