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Session 2: Safety (vehicle and passenger safety, emergency services). Session Chair: Bodo Fiebig, T-Mobile Traffic GmbH, Germany. European Traffic Accidents and Purposed Solutions. EU Traffic Accident Problem: 1.300.000 accidents per year 40.000 fatalities 1.700.000 injuries
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Session 2:Safety (vehicle and passenger safety, emergency services) Session Chair: Bodo Fiebig, T-Mobile Traffic GmbH, Germany
European Traffic Accidents and Purposed Solutions • EU Traffic Accident Problem: • 1.300.000 accidents per year • 40.000 fatalities • 1.700.000 injuries • estimated cost of 160 Billion € • the psychological damage to the victims and their families cannot even be estimated. • The EU Initiative: Information and Communications Technologies for Safe and Intelligent Vehicles aim an reduction of the causalities by 50% of the year 2010.
European Traffic Accidents and Purposed Solutions cont. • Causes of accident: it is estimated that more than 95% are cause by human failures, 75% of all accidents definitely due to human failure. • The solutions: intelligent vehicles, intelligent infrastructure and telematics services • Feasibility: 50% reduction of fatalities between 1970 and 1987 in Germany due to safer cars (todays cars are 4 safer due to ABS, ESP, better impact structure, etc.) while traffic increased by 72%.
Spectrum of Session 2 • Presentation 1: Information system commercial vehicles • Presentation 2: Public mobile network use for road safety enhancement • Presentation 3: A Proposal for Next Generation Ambulance Communication System to Support Telemedicine • Presentation 4: E-Call System • Presentation 5: High Accuracy Positioning Services for Motorized Society in Japan • Presentation 6: An open architecture supporting telematics and the integration of in-car devices - a law enforcement application • Presentation 7: Inter-Vehicle Communication based on Short Range Radar Technology
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