Project

PROSPECT - Proactive Safety for Pedestrians and Cyclists

Period
1 May 2015–1 October 2018
Project manager
Jordanka Kovaceva

PROSPECT is an EU project in the framework programme Horizon 2020, aimed at improving the protection of vulnerable road users (VRUs) with an emphasis on the two groups with the largest shares of fatalities: cyclists and pedestrians. The project will consider all relevant VRU traffic scenarios, with a special focus on urban environments, where the large majority of VRU accidents occur. PROSPECT focuses on active safety solutions, i.e. where vehicle-based sensing (i.e. video, radar) is used to survey the vehicle surroundings and where the vehicle acts actively in case of a pending critical traffic situation with a VRU (i.e. driver warning, vehicle braking/steering). PROSPECT aims to significantly improve the effectiveness of active VRU safety systems compared to those currently on the market. The project will cover the entire spectrum of in-depth accident analysis, naturalistic observations, sensor processing, modelling and situation analysis, human-machine interface (HMI), driver warning and vehicle control, testing equipment, functional tests, user acceptance, and benefit/effectiveness estimation.

Website
http://www.chalmers.se/safer/EN/projects/pre-crash-safety/associated-projects/p…
Prospect

Short facts

Research area
Road user behaviour
Financier(s)

EU

More information
PROSPECT Website
Partners

Chalmers, VTI Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Volvo Car Corporation

Project no

634149

Project type
SAFER connected project

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Advancing active safety towards the protection of Vulnerable Road Users by derivation of Car-to-VRU Use Cases as a basis for Test Scenarios of next generation Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Paper submitted in Oct 2017 to the FISITA 2018 world congress (under review)

Authors : Aparicio A, Cieślik I, Kovaceva J, Bálint A, Wisch M, Bräutigan J, Gohl I, Stoll J
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Accident Analysis, Naturalistic Driving Studies and Project Implications – Part A: Accident data analyses (Deliverable D2.1)

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Car-to-cyclist crashes in Europe and identification of Use Cases for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems of the next generation – results from PROSPECT

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Authors : Marcus Wisch, Markus Lerner, Jordanka Kovaceva, András Bálint, Irene Gohl, Anja Schneider, János Juhász, Magdalena Lindman
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