A Pre-study on Data Processing Pipelines for Roadside Object Detection Systems Towards Safer Road Infrastructure

Single-vehicle accidents are the most common type of fatal accidents in Sweden, where a car drives o the road and runs into hazardous roadside objects. Proper installation and maintenance of protective objects, such as crash cushions
Author(s)
Yinan Yu, Samuel Scheidegger, John-Fredrik Grönvall, Magnus Palm, Erik Svanberg, Johan Amoruso Wennerby, Jörg Bakker
Year of publication
2021

The VALU3S ECSEL Project: Verification and Validation of Automated Systems Safety and Security

Manufacturers of automated systems and their components have been allocating an enormous amount of time and effort in R&D activities. This effort translates into an overhead on the V&V (verification and validation) process making it time-consuming
Author(s)
R. Barbosa; S. Basagiannis; G. Giantamidis; H. Becker; E. Ferrari; J. Jahic; A. Kanak; M. Labayen Esnaola; V. Orani; D. Pereira; L. Pomante; R. Schlick; A. Smrčka; A. Yazici; P. Folkesson; B. Sangchoolie
Published in
2020 23rd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
Year of publication
2020

Final Report - Virtual reality interactions with autonomous vehicles

Re-SAFE focuses on using virtual reality (VR) to study interactions with connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) from the perspective of a vulnerable road user (VRUs). The project is based in the newly established virtual reality hub
Author(s)
Carmelo D'agostino
Year of publication
2021

Truck drivers’ behavior in encounters with vulnerable road users at intersections: Results from a test-track experiment

Crashes involving cyclists and pedestrians in Europe cause the deaths of about 7600 persons every year. Both cyclists and pedestrians are especially exposed in crashes with motorized vehicles and collisions with trucks can lead to severe
Author(s)
Ron Schindler, Giulio Bianchi Piccinini
Published in
Accident Analysis & Prevention
Year of publication
2021

Traffic volume and crashes and how crash and road characteristics affect their relationship – A meta-analysis

The present study has investigated the relationship between traffic volume and crash numbers by means of meta-analysis, based on 521 crash prediction models from 118 studies. The weighted pooled volume coefficient for all crashes and all
Author(s)
Høye, A.K., Hesjevoll, I.S.
Published in
Accident Analysis & Prevention
Year of publication
2020

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Security framework for platooning (D2.9 ENSEMBLE)

This deliverable provides a specification of the V2X security framework. It describes which measure should be applied to ensure trucks can communicate with each other in a secure and private way. In ENSEMBLE, a new facilities
Author(s)
Boris Atanassow
Year of publication
2019

Platooning protocol definition and Communication strategy (D2.8 ENSEMBLE)

This deliverable provides a specification of the V2X communication protocol to enable platooning using the wireless communication standard ITS-G5. The protocol specifies how vehicles inform each other about their ability to form a platoon, and which
Author(s)
Atanassow, Boris, Sjöberg, Katrin
Year of publication
2018

Updated estimates of the relationship between speed and road safety at the aggregate and individual levels

Recent studies of the relationship between the speed of traffic and road safety, stated as the number of fatalities and the number of injury accidents, are reviewed and their results synthesised by means of meta-analysis. All
Author(s)
Elvik, R., Vadeby, A., Hels, T., van Schagen, I.
Published in
Accident Analysis & Prevention
Year of publication
2019

The more (sharp) curves, the lower the risk

The risk of accident in horizontal curves is a complex function of at least the following characteristics of the curve: the radius of the curve; the length of the curve (and the resultant deflection angle); the
Author(s)
Rune Elvik
Published in
Accident Analysis & Prevention
Year of publication
2019
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