Project description
Novel safety tools for reducing future road fatalities
In future innovations for connected automated vehicles, the highest priority will be safety on the road. To address future safety challenges, the EU-funded SAFE-UP project aims to develop new technologies as well as testing and assessment methods. To this end, it will focus on future safety-critical scenarios, safety technologies and safety assessment methodologies. The future safety-critical scenarios will be designed and tested in a traffic simulation platform. New safety technologies for active and passive systems will be developed based on these scenarios, resulting in four demos. Novel safety assessment methodologies will then be designed to demonstrate the overall benefits. This work will help to reduce road fatalities.
Objective
Future transport and mobility will be disrupted by innovations in Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs), in which safety will be of the highest priority. SAFE-UP aims to proactively address the upcoming safety challenges by developing innovative technologies, testing and assessment methods. SAFE-UP is based on 3 key pillars: i) future safety-critical scenarios, ii) new safety technologies, and iii) novel safety assessment methodologies. Future safety-critical scenarios will be designed and analysed in a highly automated and mixed traffic environment in a traffic simulation platform. Based on these scenarios, new safety technologies for active and passive systems will be developed, resulting in 4 Demos. The passive safety system of Demo 1 will include restraint and occupant monitoring technologies for new seating positions. Three active safety system prototypes (all on-vehicle, one of them also including on-user and infrastructure) will be developed. Demo 2 will enhance the interaction between vehicles and VRUs under bad weather conditions while Demo 3 will integrate advanced intervention functions to avoid critical events. Demo 4 will consist of a safety solution based on C-ITS to enable timely warning provisions. To prove the overall benefits, new safety assessment methodologies will be thoroughly designed. The SAFE-UP consortium is another major asset, consisting of key players in mobility across the entire value chain: advanced OEMs, leading suppliers & industry, and academia. The new technologies will reduce fatalities by covering pedestrians, cyclists and Powered Two Wheelers in urban areas through active safety systems and cars in non-urban through passive safety technologies, which will impact 64% of all road fatalities. SAFE-UP will also develop targeted education and training schemes for fostering the implementation of automated driving functions, while also focusing on raising awareness of future road safety challenges.
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43710 Santa Oliva
Spain
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Participants (20)
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CV10 7JS NUNEATON
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08007 Barcelona
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85057 Ingolstadt
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70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhoehe
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75015 PARIS 15
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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412 96 GOTEBORG
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52062 Aachen
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85049 Ingolstadt
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1140 Bruxelles / Brussel
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2595 DA Den Haag
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2628 CN Delft
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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50121 Florence
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8010 Graz
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88046 Friedrichshafen
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08013 Barcelona
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447 83 Vargarda
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447 00 Vargarda
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38440 Wolfsburg
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