The Automated Collision Notification System
The NHTSA sponsored Automated Collision Notification (ACN) Project was initiated in October 1995 to design, develop, test, and evaluate a system that can detect and characterize crashes and then automatically send a data message to the public safety answering point (PSAP). The system also opens a cellular telephone voice line between the PSAP and the vehicle occupants after the data message has been received. The system detects crashes in all directions and stores the acceleration time history experienced. The ACN system is able to determine the crash change in velocity, the principal direction of crash force, whether a rollover occurred and the potential for injury in the crash. The system also includes GPS equipment and provides PSAP dispatchers with a mapped location of the crash. The ACN system has been installed in 700 vehicles in Western New York and real world crash data and time of EMS response data is being collected and analyzed.
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Corporate Authors:
National Transportation Safety Board
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Authors:
- Donnelly, Bruce R
- Schabel, David
- Blatt, Alan J
- Carter, Arthur
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Conference:
- Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond. International Symposium on Transportation Recorders
- Location: Arlington VA, United States
- Date: 1999-5-3 to 1999-5-5
- Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 125-138
- Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transportation Recorders. Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond, May 3-5, 1999, Arlington, Virginia
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic crash notification; Cellular telephones; Countermeasures; Crash characteristics; Crash data; Emergency medical services; Global Positioning System; Highway safety; Injuries; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
- Identifier Terms: Public Safety Answering Point (Communications)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01088098
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 30 2008 12:31PM