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Innovative concepts for smart road restraint systems to provide greater safety for vulnerable road users (smart rrs)
Start date: Nov 3, 2008, End date: May 2, 2012,
Recent figures from WHO and ETSC reveal frightening statistics on road traffic accidents across Europe and beyond • 1.2 million people worldwide are killed in road crashes each year with up to 43,000 dying in Europe • Up to 50 million are injured with at least 600,000 hospital admissions on a European level directly attributed to road traffic accidents. This costs European society approximately 16 ...
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2-WHEELER BEHAVIOUR AND SAFETY (2-BE-SAFE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,
"Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) users are greatly over-involved in serious and fatal crashes. They have between 5 and 25 times the risk of having a fatal crash compared to car drivers, depending on the country. The number of PTWs on European roads has more than doubled over the last two decades. The recent MAIDS (Motorcycle Accident In-Depth Study) study of PTW crashes in Europe found that behavioural ...
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Advanced telematics for enhancing the SAFEty and comfort of motorcycle RIDERs (SAFERIDER)
Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,
Motorcycle and moped fatalities account for 17,8% of the total number of road accident fatalities in Europe and, compared to a passenger car occupant, a motorcycle rider is 26 times more likely to die in a crash, based on vehicle miles travelled, as riders are among the vulnerable road users.SAFERIDER aims to enhanced PTW riders' safety by applying ADAS/IVIS on PTWs of all types for the most cruci ...
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