The overall objective of DaCoTA is to assist the development of knowledge-based road safety policies in European countries by continuing to develop the European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO) and providing methods to use ERSO data for policy development and implementation. The objective of Deliverable 5.3 is the examination of existing test procedures for various technological in-vehicle safety systems. For that reason a thorough literature review was carried out to identify the most appropriate procedures that are currently used or are under development to test the various technological systems and examine if these procedures are relevant to road accident problems. Chapter 1 describes the general goal of DaCoTA WP5 “Safety and eSafety” and the objective of Deliverable 5.3. The general terms are defined as well the difference between active and passive safety is explained and the intelligent transport systems are categorised in two different ways. Chapter 2 describes the different organizations and bodies involved to the development of test procedures, as well methodologies for testing and evaluation of preventive safety functions that have been addressed in several research projects in Europe and US during the last years. Chapter 3 presents several test procedures regarding active safety systems. More specifically, objective, test procedures, measurands and a summary for each individual procedure are presented. Chapter 4 provides discussion and summary conclusions. Some experiences of carrying out this report, which will be useful for further activities in DaCoTA, are also included and more detailed information regarding ISO and SAE standards are provided in the Annex of this report. As a next step to this deliverable and according to the work plan, the recommendation of new test procedures will be attempted, when necessary, enabling technological systems to approach as much as possible the real conditions and cover a wider part of the existing road safety problems. (Author/publisher)
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