Identifying and Analyzing Reference Scenarios for the Development and Evaluation of Active Safety: Application to Preventive Pedestrian Safety

摘要

To develop and evaluate active safety systems, reference scenarios need to be identified and analyzed. In this research, a methodology for the deduction of reference scenarios and a simulation approach to evaluate the effectiveness of those systems is presented. Using the example of preventive pedestrian safety, accident data of the United States and Germany were analyzed to identify representative scenarios. Data of both countries show similar results and a combined set of scenarios was derived which could function as specifications for new systems, input parameters for simulation models and representative test scenarios for real world and simulator testing.