The IN-SAFETY project (EU-FP6, Project No. 506716) aims at supporting policies in the field of road traffic safety by developing concepts for self explaining roads and forgiving roads. In the past, the terms self explaining and forgiving have primarily been used in the field of road design measures. The IN-SAFETY project focuses on both road design measures and technology supported actions, such as the implementation of autonomous driver assistance systems and co-operative systems. The project's final results are expected to be available in 2008. The following paper gives an overview of the methodology of assessing and benchmarking of forgiving road environments, dealing with the following questions: What is the nature of a forgiving road environment? What systems and measures are to be investigated? How can safety benefits of these systems and measures be estimated? What kind of implementation scenarios are possible? (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E212343.
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