Vehicle- and infrastructure-based technology for the prevention of rear-end collisions.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. National Transportation Safety Board

Series:

Special investigation report ; NTSB/SIR-01/01.

Special investigation report ; NTSB/SIR-01/01

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traffic safety--United States.

Traffic safety.

Motor vehicles--Collision damage--United States.

Motor vehicles.

Automobiles--Collision avoidance systems.

Automobiles--Safety measures.

Automobiles--Technological innovations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 52 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Transportation Safety Board, [2001]

Summary:

Between 1999 and 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated nine rear-end collisions in which 20 people died and 181 were injured. Common to all nine accidents was the rear following vehicle driver's degraded perception of traffic conditions ahead. As the Safety Board reported in 1995 and further discussed at its 1999 public hearing, existing technology in the form of intelligent Transportation Systems can prevent rear-end collisions. In the nine accidents investigated by the Board, one (and sometimes more) of the available technologies would have helped alert drivers to the vehicles ahead, so that they could slow their vehicles, and would have prevented or mitigated the circumstances of the collisions. The major issue addressed in this Safety Board special investigation report is the prevention of rear-end collisions through the use of Intelligent transportation systems. This report also discusses some of the challenges, including implementation, consumer acceptance, public perception, and training, associated with the deployment of vehicle-and infrastructure-based collision warning systems. As a result of its investigation, the Safety Board issues recommendations to the U.S. Department of Transportation; the Federal Highway Administration; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; truck, motorcoach, and automobile manufacturers; the Intelligent Transportation Society of America; the American Trucking Associations, Inc.; the Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association; and the National Private Truck Council.

Contents:

Accident narratives: Moriarty, New Mexico : Sweetwater, Tennessee : Trenton, Georgia : Sullivan, Indiana : Wellborn, Florida : Tinnie, New Mexico : West Haven, Connecticut : Elk Creek, Nebraska : Eureka, Missouri : Vehicle-based systems technology : Adaptive cruise control : Collision warning systems

Adaptive cruise control field operational test.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed January 29, 2003).

"Adopted: May 1, 2001."

"Notation 7356."

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Vehicle- and infrastructure-based technology for the prevention of rear-end collisions.

OCLC:

51538489

Access Restriction:

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