Project description
eSafety Co-operative systems for road transport
Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems (IVSS) possess great potential to increase the safety and effectiveness of the transport system. Socio-economic assessment is an important force for acceptance and implementation of the applications. It is needed to analyse the efficiency of IVSS-applications from an individual and a societal point of view. The balance between costs and benefits of those IVSS that can be expected to have a significant impact in the next 10-15 years- will be the basis for the development of a roll-out strategy for IVSS.
The main objectives of eIMPACT are:
- To carry out a socio-economic impact assessment of IVSS, based on a description of relevant IVSS, and their expected impacts on traffic safety and efficiency.-To provide perspectives on the market introduction of IVSS, integrating the input from the impact analysis, policy options and stakeholder roles.
The socio-economic impact assessment has the central role in this project. This methodology, developed in the SEiSS project [2005], will be extended in this project to address the stakeholder-specific analysis. All other work packages and tasks are defined in relation to the socio-economic impact assessment. Key activities include the identification of the most promising stand-alone and co-operative IVSS technologies; the development of scenarios for IVSS for the years 2010 and 2020, the assessment of the traffic safety and efficiency impacts of the IVSS in these scenarios; and the identification of policy options available for enabling the implementation of IVSS. The output will be a socio-economic impact assessment including cost-benefit results, stakeholder benefits and costs and macroeconomic effects. eIMPACT supports the eSafety initiative for the development, deployment and use of Intelligent Integrated Safety Systems in Europe.
The consortium consists of 13 partners, representing OEM's, research institutes and universities, covering both the older and newer EU states.
Call for proposal
FP6-2004-IST-4
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Funding Scheme
STREP - Specific Targeted Research ProjectCoordinator
2600 AA Delft
Netherlands