Pre-crash performance of collision mitigation and avoidance systems: results from the ASSESS project

Integrated vehicle safety systems that combine elements from primary and secondary safety have a high potential to improve vehicle safety, due to their ability to influence crash conditions and/or to adapt to these crash conditions. So far no standard evaluation procedures have been developed and implemented. The main goal of the ASSESS project is to develop harmonized and standardized assessment procedures for related collision mitigation and avoidance systems. Procedures are developed for: · Driver behavior evaluation; · Pre-crash system performance evaluation; · Crash performance evaluation; · Socio-economic assessment. This paper presents the activities related to the “Pre-Crash evaluation”. The objective is to provide a tool box for the specific evaluation of the pre-crash performance of collision mitigation and avoidance systems and their contribution to the overall system performance