MAPS&ADAS

Using digital maps to improve road safety

This three-year project is a subproject of the PReVENT Integrated Project (IP), the MAPS&ADAS project aims to improve digital maps, thereby enhancing the information that such maps feed into Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

To be able to give the best possible assistance to the driver, such ADAS applications are dependent on an accurate view of the car’s environment. This is obtained by collecting information from a variety of sensors. Digital maps complement vehicle speed and position sensors such as lasers and video cameras, which have limited range,to extend the driver horizon at least 500 to 1000 metres ahead. In this way, drivers can be alerted to what is coming after the next road curve or intersection.

Using the digital maps developed for in-vehicle navigation systems as a starting point, MAPS&ADAS is producing safety-enhanced maps. These maps are more detailed and contain more information than the digital maps currently used for navigation, including information on traffic signs, curves, slopes and speed limits.

In addition to its work on gathering and updating safety information for digital maps, the MAPS&ADAS project is also developing and testing a standardised interface for ADAS applications and map data sources. Together with the safety-enhanced maps, this interface forms the basis of the “ADAS Horizon” concept.

Objectives

• Develop, test and validate both:
  - appropriate methods for gathering, certifying, maintaining and providing safety-enhanced digital map content to be used in ADAS and navigation applications
  - a standard for an interface between ADAS and the in-vehicle map data sources, enabling easy access to
  map data on the driving environment
• Support IP PReVENT applications using map and positioning data
  Use cases and demonstrations: 
  - IP PReVENT map-based or map-supported applications
  - Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)
  - Driver Warning System (including HotSpot & Speed Limit Warnings)

Duration and Funding
February 2004 - January 2007, funding through the EC Directorate General Information Society

Consortium
Coordinator: ERTICO

Vehicle Manufacturers: BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Volvo Tech

System Suppliers: Blaupunkt, Navigon, Robert Bosch, Siemens VDO

Map providers: Navteq, Tele Atlas
Public Authorities: Lower Saxony (Germany)
Others: Hannover University, Transver

User Forum: ADASIS Forum

Contact
Vincent Blervaque
+32 (0)2 400 07 24

Visit the MAPS&ADAS website