Design, Implementation and Assessment of Innovative Devices for Road Safety: An Example from the SARI Project

The French rural roads are the field of the project called SARI (automatic management of road status to inform users and road operators). This project ran from 2005 to 2010. It took place in a peculiar background: elevated and specific accidentology of this type of roads, role of infrastructure in the accidents and constrained budgets. From these three observations, SARI provided and assessed innovative and low cost solutions to solve problems due to infrastructure and driver behaviour. This paper presents the SARI project, especially the chosen approach aiming at 1) learning about the behaviour of drivers and their vehicles conditioned by the difficulties of the road, 2) defining ways to identify and characterize these difficulties (observatories of trajectories, vehicles and methods of diagnosis), and 3) providing new information and guidance systems warning drivers about the danger of their driving situation. The efficiency of information and guidance systems was assessed by in situ experiments. The chosen example shows the collaboration between technical work packages and the work group in charge of studying the acceptability of the technical solutions.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.1217
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812029606
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18770428
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Bordel, Stéphanie
  • Somat, Alain
  • Barbeau, Hervé
  • Subirats, Peggy
  • Gallenne, Marie-Line
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena 2012
  • Location: Athens , Greece
  • Date: 2012-4-23 to 2012-4-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 2464-2472
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Driver information systems; Highway safety; Rural highways; Technological innovations; Traffic crashes; Warning devices
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01487543
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 18 2013 1:58PM