PRECURSOR SYSTEMS ANALYSES OF AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEMS. ACTIVITY AREA E -- MALFUNCTION MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

Increasing the safety of travel is a principal goal for an Automated Highway System (AHS) and one of the baseline assumptions on which this study is based. Establishing the safety parameters and manner in which vehicle, highway, and human failures can be moderated to produce the minimum harm is likely to be one of the main drives in selection of AHS architectures and system/vehicle implementations. A good understanding of the issues must be developed early in the program. The importance of this malfunction management and analysis task cannot be overestimated. Normal operation of the AHS will significantly increase public safety by removing the driver from the loop, thus eliminating more than 80% of accidents which are caused by improper driving. An AHS will complement or supplant freeways and thus must provide a level of safety greater than that which driver-operated vehicles on these already relatively safe roads currently enjoy. The AHS also introduces a potential new cause of accidents--malfunction of the AHS. This study seeks to increase safety by identifying and analyzing the possible malfunctions associated with an AHS, and developing strategies to handle these malfunctions.

• Corporate Authors:

  Battelle Memorial Institute

  505 King Avenue
  Columbus, OH  United States  43201

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Nelson, S R
  • Alexander, G
  • Herridge, J
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 238 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated highway systems; Highway safety; Management; Mechanical failure
• Old TRIS Terms: Precursor systems
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00722521
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: Resource Materials, FHWA-RD-95-030
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-93-C-00195
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 13 1996 12:00AM