HELP IS ON THE WAY! AUTOMATED COLLISION NOTIFICATION (ACN) FIELD OPERATIONAL TEST

An Automated Collision Notification (ACN) system, which consists of vehicle-mounted crash sensing, locating, processing, and communications equipment, automatically and immediately notifies an emergency medical service (EMS) dispatcher when a collision occurs. It has the goal of reducing the crash notification time and thus reducing the response time for emergency medical assistance. This is particularly important in single-vehicle crashes when serious injury may have occurred to the vehicle's occupants and they cannot summon help themselves. In these cases notification and help depends upon "Good Samaritans", who in rural areas may not be available due to low traffic volumes or other reasons. It is anticipated that the reduction in crash notification time and thereby the time in reaching and providing definitive medical care to these crash victims will have an impact on reducing the number of fatalities and serious injuries associated with automobile crashes. As part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) overall plan to improve highway safety and to facilitate the development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), NHTSA is conducting a field operational test of an ACN system. A field operational test consists of real people driving real cars on real roads. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.

• Corporate Authors:

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  ITS America

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

  VERTIS

  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Carter, A
  • BLATT, A
  • Preziotti, G
• Conference:
  • MOBILITY FOR EVERYONE. 4TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, 21-24 OCTOBER 1997, BERLIN. (PAPER NO. 1068)
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 4 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Automation; Conferences; Crashes; Emergencies; Intelligent transportation systems; Location; Sensors; Tests; Vehicle occupants; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 8531: Case study; 1631: Collision; 8525: Conference; 2184: Emergency; 9061: Location; 6120: Sensor; 6255: Test; 1255: Vehicle; 1715: Vehicle occupant
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00757093
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 17 1998 12:00AM