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Intelligent Transport Systems:ETC-based telematics as key to improve Road Safety

Global Ministry Conference – Round Table on ITS and Road Safety, MoscowNovember 19th 2009

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Road Fatalities in the EU and in Russia

• About 38,500 people killed in road traffic accidents in 2008/ Russia: 30,000

• 15,700 less than in 2001 - Reduction of 29%

• Target of 50% reduction by 2010 only in 2017

• EU-15 is expected to reach the target in 2013

• Slowest progress in Central and Eastern European Countries

• Road crash costs estimated 1,5% of GDP/ Russia € 10,5 bln (2,6% of GDP)

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Road Safety as shared responsibility

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European Union Road Safety Charter Road Safety Action

Programme ITS Action Plan

ITS RussiaERTICOASECAP Intelli-Drive

Innovative road safety telematics solutions/ ITS applications

Infrastructure – vehicle communication

Vehicle – vehicle communication

Traffic management & traffic control systems

Domaines

Study/Research Projects/Pilots Funding Deployment Law Enforcement Develop new business

processes

Public Sector Private Sector

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Road Safety as an integrated approach (3 E’s)

• Education (User behavior)

• Educate all potential road users – start in school or even earlier

• Campaigns

• Engineering

• Vehicle Safety

• Road infrastructure Safety

• Enforcement

• Enforce traffic rules and therefore discipline drivers that violate these rules and jeopardize others

• Earn money which helps to increase road safety

• The 3E’s should be applied in the following sequence

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Education

Engineering

Enforcement

Time

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ITS Technologies for Road Safety

• Locationing: GNSS, DSRC

• Communication: DSRC, GSM, 5.9 GHz

• Image processing: Digital Video

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Cost reduction and better data through capturing traffic data from the toll system

Traffic Information, Traffic Information, Management & Management &

PlanningPlanning

Improved safety and security through better traffic enforcement and observation

Safety & SecuritySafety & Security

Better service for the driver through value added services (>> increasing acceptance for toll !)

End-user Mobility End-user Mobility ServicesServices

Additional revenues through utilizing the ETC infrastructure for implementing industry solutions

Industry SolutionsIndustry Solutions

ETC systems as „telematics backbone“

Electronic Toll Collection SystemElectronic Toll Collection System


Broad Spectrum of Secondary Telematics Applications

Kapsch Telematics PlatformKapsch Telematics Platform

DSRC Data Video Data Sensor DataGPS Data

OBU End-User Services

OBU-basedAccess Services

OBU-basedPayment Services

TrafficManagement

Traffic Management Center

Traffic Monitoring(Sensor based)

Traffic Monitor (Toll Data-based)

DynamicTolling

Safety

Speed Regulation /Red Light Enforcement

Incident Detection System

Security

Automated Number Plate Recognition

Data Privacy

TrafficAnalysis

Traffic Statistics

Traffic Flow Analysis

Traffic Planning Tools

Industry Solutions

Vehicle Tracking(Fleet Management)

Pay-as-you-drive(Car Insurance)

IndustryApplications

(e.g. Logistics)


Safety & Security

Telematics ApplicationsSpeed Section Control

Incident Detection System (IDS)

Red Light Enforcement System (RLES)

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Traditional Speed Measurement

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Laser basedMobile systems based on radar

Stationary radar systems

Video based speed measurement

mobile systemsVery efficient due to the surprise effect. A disadvantage is that they are

personnel-intensive and a continuous operation is not possible.

fixed systemsEffect of such systems is very

local

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SC distance=3km

Time1=09:50:00 Time2=09:52:00

START ENDPC HGV

Evaluation unit

Traffic monitoring centerVehicle registration

database

Hard shoulder

Maintenance and support working position

Manual verification

Principal layout of a MLFF Section Control

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DistanceocityAverageVel

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Advantages and main features of a Section Control

• Reduce accident probability and severity (primary aim of speed control)

• Reduce the average velocity on a longer road section (secondary aim of speed control)

• Harmonize the traffic flow (secondary aim of speed control)

• no abrupt braking at speed traps

• Reducing environmental pollution (due to speed reduction)

• Reducing the noise disturbance (due to speed reduction)

• Automatic operation (24/7)

• Extendable by additional system features:

• Distance measurement

• Traffic statistics

• Wrong way driver detection

• Height check

• Adaptive velocities

• Weight in Motion

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Effects on accident probability and average velocity

• England (Nottingham)

• Dead or seriously injured -55%

• Italy

• Amount of accidents -22%

• Slightly injured -34.75%

• Dead persons -50.83%

• Austria(Kaisermühlentunnel)

• Slightly injured -33.3%

• Dead/ seriously inj. -48.8%

• A reduction of the average velocity by 1% leads to 2% less slightly injured, 3% less seriously injured and 4% less killed persons.

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Reduction of the average velocity in the Kaisermühlentunnel (Vienna) from 85km/h

to 75km/h.

Source: Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (Austria)

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Video based Incident Detection (IDS), Traffic Data and Surveillance

Congestion and stopped car

Wrong way / lane drivers

Break down by occupancy

Smoke

Movement

Pedestrians, Animals

Speed of single objects

Slow driver

Distance of single objects

Vehicle classification / counting

Lost Cargo / Debris

Dangerous Good (ADR), ANPR

Hard shoulder lane, cont.


Detection of Wrong Way Drivers by Digital Image Processing

Intelligent digital video camera installed at exits

If a vehicle with wrong driving direction is detected, the following actions are started:

• report to a traffic control centre

• alarming police

• warning of drivers on that particular stretch of the road

rightIntelligent Digital

Video Camera

Wrong direction!Wrong direction!

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Example: Detection of Wrong Way Driver

Ghost Driver (Truck) in Strenger Tunnel

• The situation is alerted immediately and the following tunnel reflex is released

• Minimise the negative effects of traffic disturbances like accidents or congestions

• Shorten the reaction time to incidents

• Automatically triggered proceedings

• The tunnel entrance traffic light turns red

• Real-time traffic management information signs limit speed to 60 km/h

• Info signs in emergency bays and portals indicate “Attention Ghost driver”.

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Red Light Enforcement System (RLS)

• Detection

• Vehicles are detected and identified by their license plates when entering the crossing with infra red cameras generating a front image.

• When the vehicle leaves the crossing again it is detected and identified a second time by another infra red camera.

• Identification

• Identification of vehicles is done automatically by extracting the license plate string with a high performance Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) engine.

• Verification

• A comparison of the ANPR results of vehicles entering and leaving the crossing can be outlined to determine the vehicle path and to decide if a violation of traffic rules exists or not

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Conclusion

• Road Safety as shared responsibility and integrated approach• “Institutionalized dialog” between the Public and the Private

• Public awareness and education are essential

• ETC Systems as “telematics backbone” facilitating Road Safety “Add on” applications • Open standards are needed

• Law enforcement as strong element in Road Safety

• Safety vs. Security• Data privacy

• Direct effects on Road Safety statistics & Spill over effects• Better traffic management, environment, GDP

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…or we can also try this!

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Josef CzakoDirector, International Business Development

Kapsch TrafficCom AGAm Europlatz 2 | A-1120 Vienna | Austria

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