Vulnerable Road Users thoroughly addressed in accident prevention: the WATCH-OVER European project

摘要

The European Specific Targeted Project WATCH-OVER is co-funded by the European Commission Information Society and Media within the initiatives of the cooperative systems for traffic safety and efficiency based on communication and sensor technologies. The project, supported by EUCAR, is coordinated by Centro Ricerche Fiat and includes in its consortium vehicle and motorcycle makers, technology, automotive suppliers and research centres for the design, development and testing phase. The core concept of the project, presented in this paper, is to enable the future availability of a modular cooperative system that will bring together sensor and communication technologies permitting to all road users (the vehicles, the motorcycles, the bicycles, the pedestrians) to take an active part in the reduction of the number of accidents that involve vulnerable road users. The paper gives also a highlight of the definition of the relevant cases of use and anticipates the architectural approach.