1. 1 Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems Initiative Jack Ference United States Department of Transportation 2006 ITS World Congress 8-12 October 2006 Paper No. 1482

2. 2 2006 ITS World Congress 2 Outline Program Overview Target Crash Problem Integrated System Warning Functions Major Program Activities Program Timeline First Year Accomplishments Summary – Key Program Dates

3. 3 2006 ITS World Congress 3 Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) Initiative Goal: Work with industry to accelerate introduction of integrated safety systems into the U.S. vehicle fleet of light vehicles and heavy trucks Addresses three Crash Types: Rear End Road Departure Lane Change/Merge

4. 4 2006 ITS World Congress 4 Target Crash Problem Studies conducted by the U.S. DOT indicate that widespread deployment of an integrated system combining rear-end, lane change and roadway departure crash countermeasures could prevent a significant number of these crashes each year.

5. 5 2006 ITS World Congress 5 Forward crash warning (FCW) Provides warnings to drivers to assist them in avoiding, or mitigating, crashes with the rear end vehicles traveling in the same direction Integrated System Functions

6. 6 2006 ITS World Congress 6 Lead veh lane change reveals stopped Approaching stopped vehicle Approaching slower vehicle Lead vehicle cut-ins/merges Approaching low-profile vehicle Motorcycle SP S S S S P P P P Integrated System Functions Forward crash warning (FCW) cont’d

7. 7 2006 ITS World Congress 7 Integrated System Functions Lateral drift warning (LDW) Provides warnings to drivers that are drifting from their lane

8. 8 2006 ITS World Congress 8 Integrated System Functions Lateral drift warning (LDW) cont’d Drifting into adjacent lane Drifting into adjacent occupied lane Warning occurs earlier with “hard” threat Adjacent lane may have same- or opposite- direction travel S S P

9. 9 2006 ITS World Congress 9 Integrated System Functions Lane change warning (LCW) Provides full-time side object presence indication, as well as turn signal triggered warnings of unsafe maneuvers Based on adjacent or approaching vehicles

10. 10 2006 ITS World Congress 10 Integrated System Functions Merging into occupied lane Driver warned P S Lane change warning (LCW) cont’d

11. 11 2006 ITS World Congress 11 Integrated System Function Curve-speed warning (CSW) Provides warnings to drivers that they may be driving too fast for an upcoming curve. Only on Light Vehicle platform

12. 12 2006 ITS World Congress 12 Integrated System Sensor Suite Light Vehicle Platform S S Vision S S Map S S L Vision Fusion Vision Rear Radar Sensor Bus Front Radar Sensor Bus SAM / MFVB Data Bus Digital Map Database Interface Lateral Drift Processor

13. 13 2006 ITS World Congress 13 Integrated System Sensor Suite Heavy Truck Platform Note: For clarity, rear vision not shown

14. 14 2006 ITS World Congress 14 Major Program Activities Phase 1: Integrated System design and development Development of functional requirements and performance specifications Human Factors/DVI development Building engineering development vehicles Including integrated warning characteristics, high quality DVI, and prototype data acquisition system Verification Testing – Objective test procedures Independent Evaluation Planning 12/07: Decision point for Phase 2 Phase 2: Field Operational Test – fleet build, pilot testing Evaluation of Safety Benefits

15. 15 2006 ITS World Congress 15 System Design (12/05-2/07) Build and validate proto- type vehicles (8/06-11/07) Conduct FOT (7/08-7/09) Program Begins 11/05 Driver Vehicle Interface (DVI) Development (12/05-8/07) FOT Pilot 1/08-6/08 Independent Evaluation: Concept Definition/Planning (1/06-12/07) FOT Begins 7/08 FOT Ends 7/09 Independent Evaluation: Field Data Evaluation (11/08-3/10) Program Ends 11/09 Functional Requirements 6/06 Performance Specifications 11/06 Phase OnePhase Two Objective Tests 9/07 FOT Go/No Go 12/07 IVBSS Program Timeline

16. 16 2006 ITS World Congress 16 First Year Accomplishments System Design and Development underway Demonstration of initial FCW and LCW capability Initial DVI Experiment completed DVI Option Space defined Key Program Documents produced System Architecture Preliminary Functional Requirements Preliminary Performance Specifications Draft Set of Objective Test Procedures Draft Independent Evaluation Plan

17. 17 2006 ITS World Congress 17 Summary – Key Program dates July-August 2007 – Prototype vehicles ready for testing August 2007 - Driver Vehicle Interface design complete November 2007 – Objective testing completed December 2007 – Phase 2 Go/No-Go Decision January-June 2008 – Fleet build and pilot testing July 2008-June 2009 – Full-scale FOT; data collection January 2010 – Final Program Report publicly available June 2010 – Independent Evaluation (Safety Benefits) Report

18. 18 2006 ITS World Congress 18 Questions? Jack Ference Intelligent Technologies Research Division National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 400 Seventh Street, SW (NVS-332) Washington, D.C. 20590 (202) 366-0168 jack.ference@dot.gov IVBSS webpage: www.its.dot.gov/ivbss/index.htm www.its.dot.gov/ivbss/index.htm

19. 19 2006 ITS World Congress 19 END