Final Event Programme

High Level Programme

Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 10:30 - 12:30

The future of Active Safety System Deployment

Carl-Christian Buhr, Cabinet of Vice-President Kroes at European Commission

Market Penetration and Impact of Active Safety Systems

Andreas Ostendorf, Vice President, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, Ford of Europe, Ford of Europe

Assessment of Active Safety Systems

Claes Tingvall, Professor and Director of Traffic Safety at Swedish Transport Administration, former Chairman of EuroNCAP

euroFOT Key Results

Aria Etemad, euroFOT Coordinator, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, Europe

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Exhibition Opening

Conference Programme (Download the full Programme)

Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 13:30 - 17:30

Results on Behaviour,

Acceptance and Usage

Adaptive Cruise Control and Forward Collision Warning

Mohamed Benmimoun, ika - Institute for Automotive Engineering RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Speed Regulator System

Guillaume Saint Pierre, IFSTTAR, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks, France

After a very brief recall of the French Vehicle Management Centre (VMC) characteristics, results on driver behaviour, acceptance and usage will be given for the Speed Limiter and the Cruise Control. A focus on driver's speed choice and over-speeding events will also be provided.

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Results on Behaviour,

Acceptance and Usage

Lane Departure Warning, Impairment Warning and Blind Spot Information System

Mikael Ljung Aust, Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden
Results from the analysis of vehicle data and user questionnaires for Lane Departure Warning, Impairment Warning and Blind Spot Information System will be presented, along with an overview of future challenges for these systems.

Curve Speed Warning and Fuel Efficiency Advisor

Christoph Kessler, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering Europe, Germany
This presentation will introduce the euroFOT results for Curve Speed Warning (CSW) and Fuel Efficiency Advisor (FEA): CSW indicates to the driver that the next curve should be driven at lower speed; FEA has the potential to support drivers to drive more efficiently.

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Navigation System

Stefanie Schoch, Center for Traffic Sciences (IZVW), University of Würzburg, Germany
A summary of results will be given for the comparison of driving with two different HMI-solutions of navigation systems. The presentation focuses on results regarding system acceptance and usage as well as system handling and its impact on driving behaviour.

Impact and

Safety

Lucas Malta, Volvo Technology Corporation, Sweden
This presentation will highlight some of the key findings that have come out of the safety impact analysis conducted within the project. The potential benefit of studied functions and how they affect driver behaviour will be discussed.

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Freek Faber, TNO Mobility and Logistics, the Netherlands
Will drivers arrive faster and in a more sustainable way at their destinations with the euroFOT functions? The FOT data, complemented with traffic simulations, give the answer.

Cost Benefit Analysis

Torsten Geissler, Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Germany
Johann Gwehenberger, Allianz Center for Technology (AZT), Germany
The presentation will show the results of the socio-economic impact assessment of systems tested in euroFOT. It will feature the design of the assessment framework, the main assumptions introduced to the assessment, the cost-benefit results, and the sensitivity tests.

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Wednesday, 27 June 2012, 09:00 - 16:30

From Systems to Hypotheses

Karsten Heinig, Volvo Technology Corporation, Sweden
FOTs are large scale studies with the objective to answer specific research questions and hypotheses. In euroFOT, impact of active safety systems on safety, the environment, efficiency, usage and acceptance was hypothesised. The presentation will try to explain how specific hypotheses were derived from system specifications and research questions.

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Testing Hypotheses Using Performance Indicators

Marco Dozza, Chalmers University of Technology / SAFER, Sweden
Formulation of hypotheses is fundamental to guide analyses of FOT data. However, not all hypotheses can be tested. Specifying performance indicator is the first reality check for hypothesis testing. Furthermore, the extent to which results from different datasets can be harmonised and combined depends on the definition of the performance indicators. Finally, performance indicators are dependent on the context and often become a trade-off between generality and robustness of the results.

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Developing the FOT Methodology

Samantha Jamson, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK
This presentation describes the process of developing the FOT methodology using a top-down approach in order to harmonise across the different test sites. The process defined the selection of participants and the experimental design in the context of the constraints faced, such as budget and practical considerations.

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Methodological and Practical Lessons Learned

Rino Brouwer, TNO, Dept. Traffic Behaviour, the Netherlands
In euroFOT different systems were evaluated on different test sites with different vehicles. And all these tests form a single FOT. Therefore a common approach for test execution needed to be developed. Lessons learned with respect to the development and execution will be presented.

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Data Management at the Swedish Vehicle Management Centre (VMC)

Jonas Bärgman, Chalmers University of Technology / SAFER, Sweden

This presentation will give an overview of the implementation and lessons learned in the data management at the Swedish VMC: it will focus on the data management chain including the data acquisition system, pre-processing, data storage, video annotation, data security and the hypothesis testing platform.

Data Management and Data Processing at the German VMC

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Data Storage and Database Management of the euroFOT Datasets

Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece
This presentation will give an of data storage and database management of euroFOT datasets, along with the lessons learned and potential future steps. The presentation focuses on the prototype database management tool developed and used at the German VMC1 and at the French VMC.

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Software for Data Processing, Visualisation and Analysis at the French VMC

Clement Val, CEESAR, European Centre of Studies on Safety and Risk Analysis, France
Before proceeding with analysis, it is necessary to transform the huge amount of raw, continuously acquired data, into a usable, reduced dataset. Software handling all aspects of this task has been developed, and will be presented.

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Structure of Vehicle Management Centers (VMC) & German1 VMC

András Csepinszky, ERTICO - ITS Europe, Belgium
euroFOT’s FOT execution faced several challenges due to its heterogenic test environment: different vehicles, different data loggers with different instrumentation levels, and huge geographic area. Thanks to the efforts of the partners and the innovative organisational structures, euroFOT managed to achieve its goals and successfully recruit 971 vehicles and 1038 drivers delivering data for analysis from over 34 million kilometre journeys. The German VMC Operation Center 1 consists of 3 operation sites: Ford in Aachen, MAN in Munich and Volkswagen in Wolfsburg.

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Conducting a FOT: Practical Experiences from the German2 VMC

Stefanie Schoch, Center for Traffic Sciences (IZVW), University of Würzburg, Germany
The usage of different HMI-solutions for navigation systems and its impact on driving has been investigated. The presentation will give an overview on data logging and driver recruitment, and will point out some lessons learned for conducting an FOT.

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French VMC

Reakka Krishnakumar, CEESAR, European Centre of Studies on Safety and Risk Analysis, France
This presentation shows different aspects of the experiment’s organisation conducted in France (FOT vehicles, instrumentation, driver recruitment, FOT operation...).

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A Subjective FOT on Lane Departure Warning

Gianfranco Burzio, CRF, Fiat Research Centre, Italy
Roberto Tadei, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Hundreds of drivers have been involved in a subjective field test, during several weeks of use of their Lancia Delta equipped with Driving Advisor, a Lane Departure Warning system. The methodology followed and lessons learned will be described together with the main results in term of safety benefits perceived and experienced by the drivers.

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Commercial Perspectives and Challenges for Vehicle Operations

Karsten Heinig, Volvo Technology Corporation, Sweden
Executing a FOT with commercial vehicles is demanding. Harsh operational conditions for the logging equipment, strict delivery schedules and the demand for a maximum of vehicle update impose high requirements on technology and organisation of the FOT. This presentation will touch upon several of these aspects.

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Questions / Discussion

Coffee break

Methodology for Safety Impact Assessment

Mikael Ljung Aust, Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden
A safety impact assessment estimates how many accidents/injuries a function potentially could prevent if it was widely deployed. This presentation will describe how that estimate is calculated for euroFOT data.

Methodology for Impact Assessment on Traffic Efficiency and Environment

Freek Faber, TNO Mobility and Logistics, the Netherlands
Curious about the difference between average speed and average speed? Differences in the methodology will be explained for the various kinds of euroFOT functions.

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Methodology for Hypothesis Testing and Questionnaire Analysis

Samantha Jamson, Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds, UK
This presentation will explain the procedure followed for the hypothesis testing of both the objective data captured via the test vehicles and the subjective data gleaned via questionnaires to the participant drivers.

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Methodology for Cost-Benefit Analysis

Torsten Geissler, Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Germany
The presentation will feature the application of the FESTA V guidance to the cost-benefit assessment in the methodology steps of impact assessment, impact appraisal and results calculation. Based on this it will summarise the main achievements and the main challenges from a methodological point of view.

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Questions / Discussion

Closing: What's next? An Outlook on the Future of Active Safety Systems

Aria Etemad, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering Europe

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