Taking advantage of intelligent transport systems to improve road safety

PIARC - World Road Association
July 2011
Comité technique 3.1 Sécurité routière / Technical Committee 3.1 Road Safety
181p.

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) have been used for more than 20 years. ITS is rapidly entering the marketplace and is likely to penetrate a greater part of the vehicle fleet in the next 10 - 15 years. Applied effectively, ITS can save lives, time, and money as well as reduce threats to our environment.

The general message is that ITS should be applied for easing the task of the driver: ITS will also reduce the driver’s risk of being involved in a crash. But one has to be careful because some systems are not developped and implemented to reduce crashes and some systems are even expected to result in more crashes. Road authorities, as a major public stakeholder in ITS, are largely responsible for the safety aspects of ITS. Therefore, road authorities should increase research efforts, conduct pilots and invest in safety related areas of ITS.

This report shows the seven ITS-measures found to have the greatest influence in reducing the number of fatalities in road crashes.

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