Event

How to evaluate safety?
… by using the EFrame structured framework for industrial safety evaluation.

Agenda
- Introduction To EFrame Project “Predictive safety/cost benefit assessment”
- Which safety system or service has the highest potential benefit?
- Following up the safety performance of Volvo Group trucks over time
- Short break if needed
- Definition of target scenarios and use cases for passive and active safety systems (as a basis for  functional requirements)
- Evaluating the safety performance of a customer fleet
- Summary and Panel discussions

Background
Modern commercial vehicles are equipped with a range of passive and active safety systems with a strong potential to increase traffic safety and reduce safety-related costs, both from a societal and a transport operator perspective. In addition, safety management services play an increasingly important role in improving road safety. To optimize the safety and cost benefits of these safety systems and services, it is required to have a detailed understanding of the problems that they are intended to solve and of the effectiveness of the systems/services in preventing/mitigating these problems is needed. In this context, the objective of the project was to develop a generic safety evaluation framework that integrates different relevant data sources, methods and tools into a structured process for the safety evaluation of commercial vehicle safety systems and services. The framework should target not only severe accidents (injuries/fatalities) but also property damage as well as non-traffic-related accidents e.g. backing up collisions).

Relevant results include:
-Prospective safety benefit assessment methodologies for active and passive safety systems
-A method for retrospective safety analysis of heavy vehicles in emerging markets
-A framework for a methodology on fleet safety cost assessment
-Mapping of relevant crash databases