In this edition:
Welcome note
A brief introduction to TRACE
Consortium and WP description
Project Kick-off meeting
eImpact and TRACE
Website information
Dates for your diary
TRACE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER
Edition 1
Welcome to this first
edition of the TRACE
project
newsletter.
Published at the end of
every
quarter,
this
electronic newsletter will
keep you up to date on all
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latest
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A brief introduction to TRACE
The TRACE Project (January 2006
December 2007) has two main objectives
–
- The identification and the assessment
(in terms of saved lives and avoided
accidents), among possible technology-based
safety functions, of the most promising
solutions that can assist the driver or any
other road users in a normal road situation or
in an emergency situation or, as a last resort,
mitigate the violence of crashes and protect
the vehicle occupants, the pedestrians, and
the two-wheelers in case of a crash or a
rollover.
The determination and the continuous updating of the etiology, i.e. causes, of road
accidents (as well as the causes of injuries)
and the assessment of whether the existing
technologies or the technologies under
current development address the real needs
of the road users inferred from the accident
and driver behaviour analyses.
This project is part of the Integrated Safety
Program launched by ACEA in 2004 and also
supports the E-Safety Forum.
The TRACE Consortium and
Work Package Description
The
16
consortium
members
and
their
subcontractors
come
from 9 EU member
states
across
the
south, east and west of
Europe (plus one from
Australia) and unite
both the public and
private sectors, with
participants from industry, research centres,
academic institutions, insurance and private
companies.
The project is subdivided into operational,
evaluation, methodological and transversal
Work Packages.
The operational work packages are:
WP1 – Road users (managed by CIDAUT,
Spain) identifying the specific problems
encountered by different road user groups.
WP2 – Accident Situations (managed by
LAB, France) identifying accident causation
factors according to individual pre-accident
driving situations.
WP3 – Types of factors (managed by LMU,
Germany) identifying and performing multidimensional analysis on accident causation
factors.
WP4 – Evaluation (managed by LMS,
Greece) looks at the a priori and a posteriori
evaluation of the effectiveness of safety
functions in terms of potential safety
benefits.
The methodological work packages are:
TRACE – May 2005
WP5 – Human factors (managed by
INRETS, France) will provide operational
models and methodological support for
human factor analysis.
WP6 – Safety functions (managed by
IDIADA, Spain) will provide a comprehensive
list of vehicle and infrastructure based
current and future safety functions.
WP7 – Statistical methods (managed by
IVT, Germany) will provide statistical
methodologies and support to other work
packages.
The transversal work packages are:
WP8 – Data supply (managed by VSRC,
UK) will provide aggregated data from the
different European databases available to
supply and support the other work packages.
WP9 – Project management (led by LAB,
France) coordinates the project, liaises with
the European Commission and communicates
project advancement and results.
Vehicle Safety Systems, or IVSS, including
their impact on traffic safety and efficiency. It
will also provide an indication of the
prospects for introducing IVSS, taking into
account these impacts, policy options and
stakeholder roles. eIMPACT is part of the EU’s
Sixth Framework Programme for Information
Society Technologies and Media and, with a
budget of some € 2.4 million, will run for two
years and finish in December 2007.
As well as cooperating with related 6th
Framework projects, eIMPACT has a formal
collaborative agreement with TRACE, in work
related to understanding, modeling and
quantifying the safety impact of systems.
In
order
to
optimize
the
European
Commission's follow-up and coordination of
the projects, both projects are now under the
supervision of EU Project Officer, Fabrizio
Minarini. Kerry Malone, TNO, coordinates
eIMPACT. See www.eimpact.info or contact
Dr.
Malone
for
more
information
[email protected]
The project kick-off meeting
The TRACE Kick Off event was held in Paris,
France on the 10th and 11th of January
2006.
It brought together more than 50 attendees
from the participating European countries.
The
project
was
presented
by
the
management,
WP
leaders,
the
EU
Commission and speakers from Renault and
PSA who underlined the need for such a
project in prioritizing the most promising
safety technologies.
The two days were an opportunity to share a
common conception of the project and to put
the final touch to certain unclear issues.
Website information
The TRACE website is now on line and will be
continually updated ensuring that the latest
information is available for browsing and/or
download. The URL is http://www.traceproject.org
Dates for your diary
Conferences where the Trace project will be
presented or represented:
eImpact and TRACE
eIMPACT is a Specific Targeted REsearch
Project (STREP) that will assess the socioeconomic effects of relevant Intelligent
- Road Safety Forum, Leipzig, 6 April 2006
- SafetyNet, Prague, 10 May 2006
- APSN Conference, Vienna, 12 May 2006
- ESAR, Hanover, 1-2 September 2006
- ITS World Congress 2006, London,
8-12 October 2006
TRACE – May 2005