Project

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 is 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). The envisioned framework and its components will re-use and adapt as much as possible the results from previous and ongoing projects in Sweden and elsewhere. The safety evaluation framework will be used to perform a cost-benefit analysis in order to understand the effectiveness of a system/service before its introduction in the market. .