Smart Roadside Safety Breakout

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Smart RoadsideSafety Breakout
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Safety Breakout Agenda

• Objectives of Session 1
• Review of Safety Trends and Issues
• Discussion
• Objectives of Session 2
• Discussion

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Breakout Session 1 Objectives

• Define the problem
• What are the key roadside issues related to
  commercial vehicle safety/security/mobility?
• What aspects of these problems may be addressed
  through technology solutions?
• Identify potential technology solutions
• Existing technologies
• Emerging technologies
• Future technologies
• Identify potential measures of effectiveness
• How do we know when we have achieved success?

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Large Truck Fatal Crash Statistics
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Large Truck Injury Crash Statistics
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Large Truck Property Damage Only (PDO) Crash
Statistics
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Large Truck Crash Causation Study Findings

• 36 of the crashes studied involved a truck and a
  passenger vehicle
• When the critical reason was assigned to a large
  truck, it was assigned to the driver in 87 of
  the cases. Reasons were coded as
• Decision (e.g., driving too fast for conditions)
• Recognition (e.g., driver distracted)
• Non-performance (e.g., driver fell asleep)
• Performance (e.g., driver froze)
• 10 percent of the critical reasons involved a
  problem with the truck (e.g., braking capacity,
  tire or wheel failure, cargo shift)

The Problem
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Large Truck Crash Causation Study Findings

• Most common associated factors recorded were
  driver factors
• Legal drug use
• Traveling too fast for conditions
• Unfamiliarity with the roadway
• Inadequate surveillance
• Fatigue
• Feeling under pressure from motor carriers
• The most common vehicle-associated factor was
  brake problems
• Traffic flow interruption and requirements that
  the driver stop before the crash were prevalent
  roadway factors

The Problem
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Breakout Session 1 Questions

• Why do crash and fatality rates remain high?
• What are the key factors causing crashes?
• How can we use technology to reduce crash and
  fatality rates
• Driver assistance technologies
• Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside
  communications
• Roadside enforcement
• Compliance verification
• Others?

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Breakout 2 Objectives

• Identify key implementation issues to evaluate
  and deploy potential smart roadside solutions
• Statutory or regulatory changes
• New or enhanced federal or state programs
• New research and technology activities
• Targeted funding
• Data management
• Interoperability
• Others

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Breakout 2 Objectives

• Discuss ultimate products of smart roadside
  initiative
• Guiding Principles
• Roadmap
• Business Case
• Identify key stakeholders who needs to be at
  the table?
• Government
• Industry
• Technology
• Academia
• Finance
• Legal
• Marketing
• Others