Deployment of digital vehicle/highway technology for safety enhancement

Author

Wang, Fei-Yue ; Lai, Guanpi ; Mirchandani, Pitu

Author_Institution

Program for Adv. Res. in Complex Syst., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

fYear

2003

Firstpage

204

Lastpage

207

Abstract

Although currently seatbelts and airbags are world widely used, there are still more than 40,000 people killed annually in traffic accidents. Referred to David Breed\´s "Road to Zero Fatalities" (RtZF®) concept, this paper mainly discusses how to develop and deploy a safety warning system using high precision digital road maps and a combination of various vehicle status sensory techniques, without or with a minimum requirement of additional road infrastructures. This system will help to avoid accidents and enhance safety by warning drivers of possible hazardous situations in advance.

Keywords

alarm systems; automated highways; geographic information systems; road accidents; road safety; road traffic; safety systems; GIS database; airbags; digital vehicle/highway technology; driver warning system; hazardous situations; precision digital road maps; road infrastructures; safety enhancement; safety warning system; seatbelt; traffic accidents; vehicle status sensory techniques; Alarm systems; Automation; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Road accidents; Road safety; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Vehicle driving; Vehicle safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7848-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.2003.1212909

Filename

1212909