The EU project V4SAFETY (Vehicles and VRU Virtual eValuation of Road Safety) provides a prospective framework for simulation-based safety assessment to determine the long-term performance and impact of road safety measures - ranging from in-vehicle and infrastructure solutions to regulations that influence road user behaviour.
This webinar will focus on extrapolating simulation results based on a specific region's data to make them applicable to other regions despite, e.g. differences in accident composition arising from varying travel patterns, infrastructure designs, or traffic compositions. A practical example of projecting simulation results in time, to infer the future safety performance of a safety measure from its past safety performances and plausible evolutions of its “environment”, will also be presented. The webinar will close with examples illustrating the V4SAFETY Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) method (intimately associated with projections in time), which allows for assessing the socio-economic impact of the introduction of safety measures over time.
This webinar is the third of a series of webinars that present the final project results in detail. The first webinar presented the safety assessment framework & evaluation scope, while the second webinar focused on the baseline approach selection and comparison of baselines and simulation tools for assessment results.
The third and fifth webinars’ topics and schedules are as follows:
• Simulation structure and “Processor” (15 September,13:00 – 14:00 CET)
• Human models (18 September, 13:00 – 14:30 CET)