Onderzoeksrapporten

Binnen het EU programma Ursa Major neo is het eindrapport gereed gekomen dat is uitgevoerd door TNO. Dit TNO rapport geeft de resultaten weer van een onderzoek (praktijktest) naar het gevonden effect van een test met Truck Platooning op de verkeersveiligheid, uitstoot, acceptatie en C-ITS communicatie.

Assessing driving safety calls for the quantification of driving performance in relationship to safety. While traffic safety can be evaluated by measuring the number of fatalities, injuries and crashes in traffic, this is only possible after these crashes have happened. The challenge in measuring driving safety is to relate driving behaviour as measured to the likelihood of crashes occurring. This not only concerns the driving behaviour of one single driver and vehicle, but also the interactions of this driver with other road users. Consequently, not only driving behaviour but also traffic interactions need to be quantified and related to safety. In this report we provide a summary of the state of the art in qualitative and quantitative methods to reason about the safety of driving.

In this report, an overview of available standards and criteria for the interaction of drivers and other road users with automated driving systems (ADS) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) is provided. We also provide information about ongoing research and relevant research groups. In summarizing the results, we distinguish between standards and criteria relevant to the interaction between driver and automated vehicle on the one hand and to the interaction between automated vehicles and other road users on the other. Here, the term ‘automated vehicles’ is taken to refer to both vehicles with ADAS and vehicles with ADS.

Driver assistance systems and automated vehicle systems will only be able to realize their full potential in terms of safety effects if they take the end-user into account in their design. In 2020, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management commissioned a project on Human Factor ...