Meeting will review U.S. DOT’s vehicle-based safety system project
Last updated Aug 4, 2010 — 2 views
The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) will host a one-day public meeting to provide a final report on the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety System (IVBSS) program. The meeting, open to members of the vehicle safety research community and other interested parties, will take place October 20 in Michigan.
At this final public meeting of the IVBSS program, U.S. DOT and IVBSS team members will discuss the results of two field operational tests totaling more than 900,000 miles of data — one run with commercial trucks, and the other with lay drivers and passenger vehicles.
What is IVBSS?
The Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety System (IVBSS) program is a five-year cooperative research agreement to combine several crash warning subsystems — including forward collision, lane departure, lane change, and curve speed warning — into a single, integrated concept to enhance the safety of both passenger vehicles and heavy trucks.
The system utilizes advanced sensors and other technologies to determine the existence of threats, and provide appropriate warnings to drivers. In addition to helping prevent nearly half of all rear-end, run-off-road, and lane change/merge crashes, the system is expected to improve overall transport system performance while reducing safety-related costs.
Further information on the IVBSS initiative is on the IVBSS website and on the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute website.
Registering for the October 20 meeting
Due to space limitations, advance registration is required prior to Oct. 15, 2010. The registration fee is $75 until Oct. 1, and $100 thereafter.
Further details are on the conference’s website.