PREVENTION OF ROAD ACCIDENTS INVOLVING VULNERABLE ROAD USERS: THE OUTCOMES OF THE WATCH-OVER EUROPEAN PROJECT

摘要

The European project WATCH-OVER has been co-funded by the European Commission Information Society and Media within the initiatives of cooperative systems for traffic safety and efficiency based on communication and sensor technologies. The project, supported by EUCAR, has been coordinated by Centro Ricerche Fiat and included in its consortium vehicle and motorcycle makers, automotive technology suppliers and research centres for the design, development and testing phase. rnThe project outcome, presented in this paper, is the availability of a modular cooperative system utilizing vision and communication technologies to prevent accidents that involve vulnerable road users, including motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians.