SAFETY AND RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF ADVANCED CRUISE-ASSIST HIGHWAY SYSTEM

The Advanced cruise-assist Highway Systems Research Association (AHSRA) has been researching infrastructure-based driving support systems called Advanced cruise assist Highway Systems (AHSs) since 1996. When introducing an AHS into the society as a public system, it is very important to evaluate its safety and reliability for the users of the AHS. The authors set an acceptable risk, i.e., a dangerous fault probability of AHS by analyzing relationships between drivers and the AHS. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is applied to examine whether the dangerous fault probability of a designed system meets with the acceptable risk. The result shows that the reliability of AHS can approximately satisfy the target value by introducing adequate diagnosis and fail-safe mechanisms.

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• Authors:
  • Endoh, S
  • Fujii, Masahiro
  • Yamada, K
  • SATO, Y
  • Kawahara, T
• Conference:
  • 8th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Sydney, Australia
  • Date: 2001-9-30 to 2001-10-4
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous intelligent cruise control; Fault tree analysis; Intelligent transportation systems; Reliability; Risk analysis; Safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00978987
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 3 2004 12:00AM