ASSESSMENT OF AUTONOMOUS EMERGENCY BRAKING (AEB) PEDESTRIAN SYSTEM IMPACT ON 2016 – 2020 MALAYSIAN ANIMAL-CROSSINGS ACCIDENTS DATA

Abstract

The trend of animal-vehicle collision (AVCs) occurrences over the past years demonstrates increasing numbers, and this call for a proper mitigation plan by appropriate authority bodies. Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) pedestrian system - proven effective in collision prevention and mitigation for vehicle-pedestrian collision – can potentially expand its original functionality to AVCs avoidance. This study presents a new data assessment method to predict the impact of AEB pedestrian system implementation on vehicles to reduce AVCs cases from 2016 to 2020. In general, a new scoring system is introduced whereby fitment rating points of 1, 0.5 and 0 are given to describe successful crash avoidance, crash mitigation with reduced damage and failed crash avoidance. Several noteworthy findings were discovered in assessing impact data from five significant AEB-AVCs. The effectiveness of AEB is found to be correlated with camera detection, system working speed range, frequent collision time, human casualties, and heavy vehicles. In general, the results indicate overall positive consequences of AEB implementation to reduce AVCs, providing concrete reasoning for standardising AEB pedestrian systems in all manufactured road-legal vehicles for upcoming years.