Impact of ITS services on the safety and efficiency of road traffic

Tomasz Kamiński,Jacek Oskarbski,Mirosław Siergiejczyk,Przemysław Filipek

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201712203004

Abstract

This paper describes the project entitled: “Impact of the use of Intelligent Transport Systems on the level of road safety” (agreement no. DZP/RID-I-41/7/NCBR/2016), implemented as part of the Road Innovations Development (RID) programme, funded by the National Centre for Research and Development and the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA). The project is run by a consortium comprising the Motor Transport Institute, University of Gdansk, Warsaw University of Technology, Military University of Technology and Research Institute of Roads and Bridges. The impact of ITS services and accompanying modules on road safety may be considered in functional, logical or physical terms. The aim of the project is to understand how ITS services change road safety.

Highlights

The project entitled: "Impact of the use of Intelligent Transport Systems on the level of road safety"
The project is run by a consortium which includes the Motor Transport Institute, University of Gdańsk, Warsaw University of Technology, Military University of Technology and Research Institute of Roads and Bridges
Many years of research conducted in the US, Japan and Europe have shown that ITS-based services and services designed to inform travellers using variable message signs, boards, or traffic lights have helped to reduce accidents by approx. 80% using advanced traffic management systems, by 25-50% using ramp metering and 30-40% using traffic control via variable message signs [1,2,3,4]

Summary

Introduction

The project entitled: "Impact of the use of Intelligent Transport Systems on the level of road safety" These parameters will be used in safety models for evaluating the level of road safety Another project task is to use the multi-criteria Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to understand how ITS services change road safety and traffic efficiency defined as a stream of vehicles driving in a specific period of time. Both project tasks are currently under way and will be described in papers to come.

Project assumptions

Evaluation of the impact of ITS services on road safety

AHP method

Implementation of the project results