The majority of travel, and road deaths, happen on Europe’s roads of economic importance that comprise just ten per cent of the entire road network. The importance of keeping this priority network of major roads well maintained for the effective operation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) was highlighted by the EuroRAP and EuroNCAP consultation paper Roads That Cars Can Read. It revealed that the combination of inadequate maintenance of roads and differences in national regulations for road markings and traffic signs across Europe were a major obstacle to the effective implementation of ADAS technologies. In particular, the consultation asked how road markings and traffic signs can be optimised to maximise the potential of two significant ADAS technologies: Lane Departure Warning (LDW )/ Lane Keeping Assistance (LKA) and Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR ) The European Union Road Federation (ERF) responded to the consultation and offered its support. As a result, two cross organisation working groups were set up under the auspices of EuroRAP to investigate how the road markings and signs industry (represented by ERF) could cooperate with the European automotive sector (represented by ACEA) to bring this concept closer to fruition. The briefs given to the two working groups are in the Appendix, and can be summarised: • WG 1 — Quality standards for road markings and traffic signs on major rural roads • WG2 — Specification for a reference survey to assess the quality of road markings and traffic signs on major rural roads. This report is is the output of WG 1. It identifies how two core elements of the road infrastructure, road markings and traffic signs, need to be adapted to optimise the effectiveness of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in vehicles, in particular Lane Departure Warning (LDW ), Lane Keeping Assistance (LKA) and Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR ) (Box 1). (Author/publisher) The first consultation paper in the Roads That Cars Can Read series is available at: http://www.eurorap.org/media/93768/20110629-Roads%20That%20Cars%20Can%2…
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