EFRAME project disseminated
The EFRAME project was disseminated successfully January 25. Experts from the academia, from the industry and the public sector (e.g. insurances) come together to discuss the EFrame proposed methodologies for evaluating traffic safety benefits of technologies and services.
The project developed and applied a framework for the predictive evaluation of the safety benefits of safety systems (active and passive) and services in a commercial fleet. The benefits were calculated as potential reduction of crashes, injuries and costs and the data sources used for the calculation spanned from crash statistics to naturalistic driving data.
The objective of the EFrame FFI project was to develop a structured framework for traffic safety evaluation in an industrial (commercial vehicle manufacturer) context. The resulting framework facilitates more efficient development of crash/injury countermeasures by identifying and focusing on the most important safety (crash) problems, providing a toolset for analyzing crashes and estimating the potential and actual effectiveness of safety systems and services and, finally, identifying the data sources needed to perform these analyses. In the project a cost-benefit model has been developed that is applicable to most safety measures in the transport sector.
The project has been looking as widely as possible on the follow-up costs when a vehicle ended up in an accident. One novelty in the project was that it did not only focus on fatalities and injuries but also on various kinds of property damages, whereas road crashes and non-traffic related accidents are included. Another novelty is that the results ground on the same logic for crash, conflict and non-conflict phases. Furthermore, the importance of the concepts of target scenarios and use case when developing new technologies and services is highlighted.