Safety

This project was built upon the Minnesota Statewide Commercial Vehicle Weight Compliance
Strategic Plan (2005) goal to preserve Minnesota’s infrastructure by minimizing damage from
overweight trucks. A primary focus of the project was building a Virtual Weigh Station “starter”
system at a reasonable cost and within a short time frame. This was accomplished by using
current Weigh in Motion (WIM) scales and applications for weight enforcement purposes. The
project began by documenting appropriate inspection areas for each WIM site. The scale data
was then processed in new ways to create performance measures for tracking progress and for
real time enforcement screening. Also, a variety of WIM controllers were demonstrated to find
competitive products suitable for Mn/DOT’s needs. Finally, the use of digital imaging and
dynamic feedback technologies were investigated as potential new tools.

Minnesota Department of Transportation

URS Corporation

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

The reaction time constitutes a critical parameter for the overall stopping time of a vehicle, in
emergency braking situations. In the current paper, on-road reaction time measurements and
results are described, as an attempt of finding a stable relation between static and dynamic
values. The relevant tests were performed within the PhD dissertation of the author, where the
reaction time was one of the parameters used for modeling drivers’ behaviour, in order to
produce innovative algorithms for personalized driver warning provision for collision warning
and avoidance systems.

Centre for Research & Technology Hellas/Hellenic Institute of Transport

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

The development of road safety-related ITS raises a number of questions regarding their effects
on driver behaviour and accidents, especially how drivers will adapt to ITS and whether
risk compensation mechanisms will take place. While effects of ITS on accidents have been
evaluated in real traffic for some 13 systems, 20 other systems have only been evaluated on
driver behaviour and/or accidents by surrogate methods. The present paper aims at addresses
systems which have not yet been fully implemented in real traffic and where the effects on
accidents are scarce or missing. The present study asks if safety-related ITS are addressing the
real threats to safety in road traffic. Critical issues are addressed and core problem statements
are discussed. The mobile phone is termed a threat disguised as a “Trojan horse” because of
its increasing number of new applications finding its way to the driver behind the wheel.

Institute of Transport Economics

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

This paper proposes a system of emergency notification based on a black box in a vehicular
environment. Currently, much research is concerned with safety provided by a driving
warning system and an automatic notification system, because many people are injured in and
die in car crashes. There are many studies about sensors and network equipped vehicles, since
they are important components to pre-recognize a car accident and reconstruct the car
accident situations. Research for vehicular black-box is becoming vital to store and process
the data that are from each vehicular sensor.
There are many kinds of emergency standards and services such as eCall and Automatic
Crash Notification (ACN) and others. In light of recent success of emergency standards, there
are several problems with emergency systems. Accordingly, we discuss the shortcomings of
each emergency system and standard that has already been developed in Europe and America.
Then we suggest the solution to the problems and test bed for the suggested solution in the
paper.

Hangyang University

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

Evacuating large municipal areas during emergencies in an efficient manner is one of the
critical concerns of most responsible management agencies. Previous studies focus mainly on
strategic evacuation plans or controls for the passenger cars, giving inadequate attention to
those pedestrians community with transit systems or other modes especially in metropolitan
areas. This study has developed a n evacuation planning module f o r pedestrians in
Washington D.C. and integrates it with the system developed for passenger-car evacuation.
The proposed module first guides people to the nearest metro-stations, and then applies the
knowledge-based method to choose proper evacuation routes for shuttles to pick up evacuees.
It also includes the plans for guiding pedestrians to the nearest evacuation route, and for
dispatching shuttles need for their evacuation.

University of Maryland, College Park

Maryland State Highway Administration

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