ProtAct-Us from serious injury and long term consequences of road crashes
Battling serious injuries with long-term consequences in road traffic remains one important issue in the overall goal of resilient future road transport (Vision Zero). Challenges of increasing personal transport in urban areas coupled with autonomous vehicles and shuttles, new mobility devices and the overall need to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users as well as all types of vehicle occupants’ require solid medical background knowledge and innovative engineering approaches. ProtAct-Us project's work serves to protect all Road User Groups from serious injury and long-term physical, cognitive and mental health consequences of road crashes through innovatively interlinked research action between medical and engineering methods.
ProtAct-Us methodology and tools enable the development of efficient, resilient, inclusive, and effective countermeasures for all road user groups affected by road crashes and likely to endure injury in such. Those road user groups are cluster within ProtAct-Us into groups facing similar engineering mitigation challenges and endure a set of typical serious injuries with potential long term consequences.
Comprensive engagement of all road user groups and relevant stakeholders in the scientific engineering community, automotive and transport mobility industry, but also, and that is the crucial aspect of ProtAct-Us, the medical, i.e. public health experts in the form of hospitals, health statisticians are involved to bring combined innovative solutions for these challenges closer to deployment and application, thus reducing in the long term social economic costs and person burdon and suffering.
ProtAct-Us overall objectives:
O1: Inclusive, prevailing, and sustainable protection of all road users through safe and robust countermeasures in and after road crashes, advocating an inclusive safety approach providing equal opportunities, irrelevant of sex, gender, stature, and age.
- Mitigate long-term consequences of physical impairment and Mitigation of long-term mental health disorders
O2: Reduction of societal cost aspects of long-term consequences of injury
- Optimise early treatment response strategies and efficiency of medical treatment
- Identify cost categories and follow up of costs, out of pocket and hospital-isation costs
- Reduce socio-economic harm for victims of road traffic accidents
O3: Medical and engineering tool and method upgrade
- Develop medical and Epidemiological indicators and codification with the fo-cus on long-term consequences allowing for risk assessment
- Upgrades and improvement of HBMs, ATDs and physical tools regarding assessment capability and test procedures of injuries with long term conse-quences
- Definition of procedures for the standardized usage of the developed meth-od and tools
O4: Upgrade and develop New Generation of Protection principles for all road user groups
- Upgrade and improve protection of vehicle occupants
- Development of protection methods for sitting and standing passengers in shuttles and buses
- Upgrade protection equipment for bicycle, motorcycle riders and passen-gers
- Improve protection possibilities for pedestrians in critical road traffic situa-tions
- Develop Post Crash response (early and efficient management of patient needs)
O5: Advocate and leverage evidence-based policies
- Collaborate / Harmonise Policy, Regulatory and Standards requirements
- Foster Policy Makers' upgrades through international cooperation and facili-tate interaction with other EU and world-wide initiatives
The ProtAct-Us consortium consists of 13 international partners and two associated partners are supporting the project in psychological and injury epidemiological, as well as public health realted topics.
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