Safety

Arizona  DOT  and  Maricopa  County  DOT  have  recently  launched  the  Arizona  E-
VII program.  This paper outlines the goals, scope, and current activities under this
technology development and testing program.  This program is focused on rapidly
developing  and  deploying  real-world,  high-impact  systems  aimed  at  improving
safety,  mobility,  emergency  response,  and  travel  time  reliability  for  public  safety
applications.

Kimley-Horn & Associates

University of Arizona

Arizona State University

Econolite

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

This article first discusses the concept of  estimating the accident reduction effect focusing
upon how the effect of safety support systems is estimated.    It then describes the method of
calculating the effect of providing the traffic signal information of the Infrastructure
Cooperative System applying the previously mentioned concept, and attempts to estimate the
effect of the system on reducing the number of  accidents using data tested in the field from
2006 to 2007.

Toyota Motor Corporation

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Snowy region has serious problem related to the road surface condition about the
slipperiness in driving the vehicle in winter. Informing the location of slippery road condition
could contribute to ease the stress of driver. Based on this background, we conducted the pilot
program that inform the location of slippery road condition  calculated by the vehicle data
from the ECU of vehicle through the internet homepage (http://tsurunavi.ce.akita-u.ac.jp/) in
2006-2007 snowy season in Japan. This was the first attempt that opened to the public in the
world. Through this pilot program, many results and findings were obtained by the system
output. However there are many issues to be  improved. Considering these issue, improved
pilot program was started from 12/22/2007. In this pilot program, large number of locations of
slippery road condition could be  obtained from the probe vehicle, because taxi was used as
the probe vehicle.

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan

Akita University

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Intelligent  Transportation  Systems  (ITS)  apply  advanced  and  emerging  technologies  in
information  processing,  communications,  control  and  electronics  to  meet  surface
transportation  needs.    Additionally,  we  all  agree  that  advanced  technologies  tend  to
develop  more  rapidly  in  the  private  sector  and  in  academia  where  research  and
development is in the foreground. However a ITS project can only be successful only if
you apply good old fashion Traffic Engineering.

New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT)

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

PReVAL is a subproject of the PReVENT Integrated Project, in which different preventive
safety applications have been developed and demonstrated. The major aims of the PReVAL
project are to assess the safety potential of functions developed and demonstrated in the
PReVENT integrated project and to develop a harmonized framework for the assessment of
preventive safety applications and advanced driver assistance functions. The framework
builds on the experiences gained in the PReVENT project and other related projects. The
framework integrates different procedures for technical and human factors evaluation and
safety impacts assessment in one holistic approach. This paper discusses the human factors
evaluation aspects of the framework in more detail.

Volvo Technology

University Hannover

Volvo Cars

VTT

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York