An ETAS study (ETAS is a French MoD RDT&E facility) was launched for reducing fatalities and damages due to traffic accidents involving military vehicles. Such vehicles were indeed identified as being subject to specific constraints bound to their particular operational use. Therefore, the French Defence Procurement Agency (Delegation generale pour l'armement, DGA) and Altran Technologies conducted for two years a joint study with the following goals: 1) identify the main drivers of traffic accidents involving military vehicles through a statistical survey over the past decade; 2) identify and assess active and passive safety systems able to mitigate traffic accidents without altering military vehicles' operational capabilities; 3) draw the specifications of safety demonstrators to be manufactured, implemented and tested later on. Tasked by the DGA, Altran technologies conducted a statistical survey using the French Army data on traffic accidents in metropolitan France, overseas territory, and operational theatres. At the end of the survey, the results clearly showed that occupants in military vehicles run peculiar risks given specific uses and designs of such vehicles. In order to identify relevant technical as well as feasible solutions, the DGA and Altran technologies established new state-of-the-art of active and passive safety systems list of requirements/designs. The results show that the emphasis shall be put primarily on finding ways to improve: - static and dynamic stability; - traffic lights efficiency; - inter vehicle compatibility; - occupants restraint systems' efficiency. For each of the themes, Altran Technologies defined a set of requirements that shall permit to improve the overall safety of the military vehicles during retrofit and design activities.
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