FACTS AND DATA RELATED TO BUS COLLISIONS

The purpose of collision warning systems (CWS) is to recognize the relative speed, orientation, and distance between the instrumented vehicle and nearby objects, and the possible influence of environmental factors, such as weather, lighting, and roadway conditions. Transit buses have very specific needs because of their need to operate in restricted spaces and the presence of pedestrians. This paper reviews a work designed to investigate, develop, and test performance specifications for a side collision warning system that can reliably detect the smaller objects common to the buses domain, e.g., pedestrians or bicycles. An important initial step in the development and testing of performance specifications for side collision warning system is an analysis of incident data. This analysis serves two purposes: to guide the design and development of such systems; and to form a quantitative foundation for evaluation of the system.

Supplemental Notes:
- Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
Corporate Authors:
Federal Transit Administration

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Authors:
- McNeil, S
- Mertz, C
- Salinas, D
- Thorpe, C
Conference:
- Technical Information on Transit IVI Projects
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Date: 2002-10-28 to 2002-10-29
Publication Date: 2002

Language

English

Media Info

Pagination: 76p

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Bicycles; Crash avoidance systems; Development; Environmental impacts; Intelligent vehicles; Investigation of structure; Pedestrians; Performance based specifications; Testing; Transit buses
Identifier Terms: Intelligent Vehicle Initiative
Uncontrolled Terms: Collision warning systems
Subject Areas: Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00936277
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS, USDOT
Created Date: Jan 3 2003 12:00AM