MUNDS: A New Approach to Evaluating Safety Technologies

Real-world evaluations of the safety benefits of new integrated safety technologies are hampered by the lack of sufficient data to assess early reliable benefits. To address this, a new approach was developed using a case-control, meta-analysis of coordinated national police data from Australia, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden and the UK, in assessing the benefits of Electronic Stability Control (ESC). The results showed that single-vehicle injury crash reductions varied between 21% and 54%, dependent on the speed zone of the crash and the road condition (significantly more effective in wet/icy road conditions than dry roads). For injury crashes involving more than one vehicle, ESC was twice as effective preventing crashes in high speed than lower speed zones. The findings using this new approach were consistent with those published by various equivalent individual studies, bearing in mind their wider international scope in terms of driving conditions and vehicle fleets studied. It was concluded that this new approach using a “prospective” meta-analysis method has the potential to expedite the process of evaluating emerging vehicle safety technologies that would otherwise be subject to much greater delays before sufficient evidence could be collected.

• Record URL:
  http://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/23/isv7/main.htm
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Fildes, Brian
  • Keall, Michael
  • Thomas, Pete
  • Parkkari, Kalle
  • Pennisi, Lucia
  • Tingvall, Claes
• Conference:
  • 23rd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)
  • Location: Seoul , Korea, South
  • Date: 2013-5-27 to 2013-5-30
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: 23rd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Research Collaboration to Benefit Safety of All Road Users

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Databases; Evaluation and assessment; Meta-analysis; Technological innovations; Vehicle safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Electronic stability control; Real world data; Safety benefits
• Geographic Terms: Australia; Finland; Italy; New Zealand; Sweden; United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01569319
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-0073
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 7 2015 12:12PM