# Presentation: 779354

## Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems

- _ITS JPO Lead_:  Ray Resendes, FHWA
- _Technical Lead_:  Jack Ference, NHTSA

## Challenge

- Over 3.6 million rear-end, run-off-the-road, and lane-change crashes occur every year
- Of these, about 27,500 crashes result in one or more fatalities

## Opportunity

- Rear-end, run-off-the-road, and lane- change crash countermeasure systems could prevent over 48% targeted crashes or 1,836,000 crashes annually
- Integration of existing collision avoidance systems could result in systems with significantly improved effectiveness

## Goals

- Overall Goal:  To accelerate introduction of integrated vehicle-based safety systems into the Nation’s vehicle fleet
- Objectives:
- Establish a partnership between the U.S. DOT and the automotive, commercial vehicle, and transit vehicle industries involving a wide range of stakeholders
- Facilitate introduction and commercialization of effective integrated systems in these markets
- Support the U.S. DOT role in advancing safety product deployment

## Milestone/End Product

- All new vehicles will be equipped with integrated safety systems that help them effectively avoid the most common types of deadly crashes
- Fewer, less severe crashes
- Fewer injuries and fatalities
- Reduced impacts of crashes on transportation systems

## Roadmap

## Program Plan/Approach

- The Initiative consists of five tasks:
- _Task 1_: Preparatory Analyses
- _Task 2_: System Design
- _Task 3_: Build Prototype Vehicles
- _Task 4_: Conduct Field Operational Test (FOT)
- _Task 5_: Perform Evaluation
- Duration of Initiative
- FY04-FY09

## Task 1: Preparatory Analyses

- Goal:  To shape the activities and tasks of this initiative
- Actions:
- Solicit stakeholder and industry input
- Develop functional and evaluation requirements
- Conduct technical reviews of current systems
- Investigate preliminary driver-vehicle interface (DVI) concepts
- Assess business case and deployment potential
- Prepare program execution strategy

## Task 2: System Design

- Goal: To develop operational concepts, performance specifications, and test procedures for the integrated system
- Actions:
- Develop performance specifications
- Design, build and test sensor subsystems
- Design, build and test threat assessment algorithms
- Design, build and test driver-vehicle interface (DVI)
- Develop objective test procedures

## Task 3: Build Prototype Vehicles

- Goal: Create prototype integrated safety systems and vehicles to be used to test system effectiveness
- Actions:
- Design and build data acquisition systems
- Integrate subsystems and build prototype vehicles
- Conduct objective test procedures
- Validate performance of prototype vehicles
- Finalize design and build vehicles to be used in field operational test (FOT)

## Task 4: Conduct Field Operational Test (FOT)

- Goal: Conduct tests of prototype vehicles and integrated safety systems using simulators, test tracks and naturalistic driving methodologies
- Actions:
- Devise FOT concepts
- Recruit test subjects
- Build vehicle fleet
- Conduct pilot test
- Conduct FOT

## Task 5: Perform Evaluation

- Goal: Evaluate the effectiveness of  program activities and the FOT process
- Actions:
- Devise evaluation strategy
- Develop evaluation plan
- Develop analysis methods
- Build database and tools
- Analyze data and create report
*Note that evaluation will take place concurrently with the overall Program *

## Summary

- Significant safety benefits accrue when integrated systems are utilized
- Working closely with automotive, heavy truck, and transit bus industries to create the optimum system for each vehicle type
- Leveraging past investments and research in the intelligent vehicle arena to advance work in integrating systems
- Building a better, more versatile, system at a lower cost, quicker availability, and with increased consumer acceptance