SAFERIDER - Advanced Telematics for Enhancing the Safety and Comfort of Motorcycle Riders

The enormous impact that road fatalities have in our society has attracted the attention of various official entities and policy makers to this issue. In particular, for more than 15 years the European Commission took care about road crashes, especially in relation to the eSafety strategic objective: the reduction of all road accidents by 50% by the year 2010. Among motor vehicle accidents, which represents second most frequent cause of death for people 5-29 years old, motorcyclists are worldwide among the most vulnerable road users. Motorcycle and moped fatalities account for 17,7% of the total number of road accident fatalities in Europe. Therefore, compared to a passenger vehicle occupant, a motorcycle rider is 26 times more likely to die in a crash, based on vehicle miles traveled. It’s clear that the social impact of this phenomenon is dramatically negative from the European Community point of view. This paper will present the SAFERIDER (Advanced telematics for enhancing the safety and comfort of motorcycle riders) project outline, focusing on the functionality developed and the activity done so far. In details, the paper will show the architecture developed for the simulator and demonstrators testing, the HW components implemented and the HWs integration of the innovative vehicle demonstrators. Waiting for the project conclusion expected by November 2010, the draft results seem to be very interesting for challenging objectives of the European Community, in relation with the motorcycle undiscovered domain.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Japan

  Tokyo,   Japan 

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050
• Authors:
  • Bekiaris, Evangelos
  • Nikolaou, Stella
  • Montanari, Roberto
  • Spadoni, Andrea
  • Borin, Andrea
  • Pieve, Marco
  • Lot, Roberto
  • Sartori, Roberto
  • Huth, Veronique
  • Diederichs, Frederik
  • Biral, Francesco
• Conference:
  • 17th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Busan , Korea, South
  • Date: 2010-10-25 to 2010-10-29
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 17th ITS World Congress, Busan, 2010: Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Active safety systems; Driver support systems; Motorcycle driving; Motorcycles; Motorcyclists; Telematics
• Identifier Terms: SAFERIDER
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01354764
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 24 2011 11:03AM