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APSN
Network of Excellence APSN (Advanced Passive Safety Network).
EUCAR
- European Council for Automotive R&D
To support the achievement of the highest efficiency, effectiveness and
economy in R&D performance, the major European automakers have joined
their efforts in the European Council for Automotive R&D - EUCAR.
EUCAR Integrated Safety Projects:
AIDE - Adaptive
Integrated Driver-vehicle InterfacE
Part of the EUCAR Integrated Safety Programme, the AIDE Integrated Project
plans to design, develop and validate a generic Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle
Interface (AIDE) that maximises the efficiency of individual and combined
advanced driver assistance systems, reduces the level of workload and
distraction and enables the potential benefits of new in-vehicle technologies
and nomad devices.
EASIS
- Electronic Architecture Safety Systems
The European commission transport policy for 2010 sets new targets with
respect to road safety. These targets can only be reached by an integrated
approach for vehicle safety systems, i.e. the combination of active and
passive safety systems where actions will address all phases of a crash,
including pre-crash and post-crash.
From a technical point of view today’s safety systems are mostly
stand alone systems with a limited degree of interdependencies. These
systems have to be integrated - combined with upcoming enhanced telematics
services - into a complete network of so-called Integrated Safety Systems.
For the realization of such Integrated Safety Systems a powerful and highly
dependable in-vehicle electronic architecture and an appropriate development
support is mandatory. Those elements which are not competitive relevant
for OEMs and suppliers have to be standardized to achieve an improvement
of system quality at shorter development times and lower system costs.
GST - Global System
for Telematics
GST is an EU-funded Integrated Project that is creating an open and standardized
end-to-end architecture for automotive telematics services. The purpose
of GST is to create an environment in which innovative telematics services
can be developed and delivered cost-effectively, and hence to increase
the range of economic telematics services available to manufacturers and
consumers.
PReVENT - Preventive
and Active Safety Applications
Safety systems available today are mostly stand-alone on-board systems
with a limited degree of interdependence. The development and the rapid
dissemination of existing and new safety applications can only be achieved
at competitive costs by:
- defining safety function fields
- integrating different in-vehicle systems
- combining them with enhanced telematics into a complete network of so-called
integrated safety systems.
PReVENT, as part of the EUCAR Integrated Safety Programme, contributes
to these objectives. Preventive and Active Safety Applications will help
drivers to avoid accidents, by sensing nature and significance of imminent
dangers, while taking the driving state and the driver status into account.
Depending on the significance and timing of the danger, the systems will
subsequently inform the drivers as early as possible, warn them and if
they do not react, actively assist or ultimately intervene.
SIM - Safety in Motion: Integrated Safety in PTW
The main objective of the SAFETY IN MOTION (SIM) project is to develop an innovative
vehicle with new active, preventive and passive safety devices that will result
in the decrease of the number of powered two-wheelers (PTWs) accidents and related
consequences for PTW riders (injuries and deaths). Over 6000 fatalities on European
roads in 2001 are related to PTWs. Compared to the overall number of victims on the
roads, this figure represents 15% of this dreadful aspect of our society. The European
Commission (EC) has launched the 3rd European Road Safety Action Plan with the ambitious
goal of reducing the fatalities by 50% in 2010. The medium term objective is to cut
by around 75% the number of persons killed or severely injured by 2025, while the
long term vision is to render road transport as safe as all other modes. To this goal,
the motorcycle Industry could and has to play a role in improving the safety features
of its products, while keeping their characteristics of versatility. R&D activities
will be carried out in the project, addressed to in-depth studies of a suitable
safety strategy for PTWs in order to avoid road accidents and/or mitigate their consequences.
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