APPROACHES TO ITS SAFETY EVALUATION: DISCUSSION OF CASE STUDIES

Evaluating the safety of emerging technologies presents a number of challenges to the thinking, imagination, and resourcefulness of the safety research community. The four case studies discussed in this paper were presented in the context of an ITS America Workshop on ITS Safety Evaluations (May 1 & 2, 1995, Reston, VA). While these papers by Crompton, Leis, Perez, and Marsh differ in focus, they demonstrate some of the thinking and activity that is critical to increasing our understanding of ITS safety. Evaluating even a given ITS design challenges our traditional understanding of safety measures and current methodologies used for testing. Yet we need to apply ourselves to developing standards and guidelines for ITS not yet designed or implemented. Further, some of these technologies are revolutionary and may impact the behavior of users in ways that have not been anticipated.

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  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Fleischman, R N
• Conference:
  • A Workshop on The Safety Evaluation of Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Location: Reston, Virginia
  • Date: 1995-5-1 to 1995-5-2
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 229-234

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Evaluation; Intelligent transportation systems; Prevention; Research; Safety; Traffic safety
• Old TRIS Terms: Safety research
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00740047
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 21 1997 12:00AM