TY - JOUR
T1 - A headway to improve PTW rider safety within the EU through three types of ITS
AU - Silla, Anne
AU - Rämä, Pirkko
AU - Scholliers, Johan
AU - Leden, Lars
AU - van Noort, Martijn
AU - Morris, Andrew
AU - Hancox, Graham
AU - Bell, Daniel
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The current safety situation for Powered Two Wheelers (PTW) within the EU is alarming. According to EU statistics, PTW riders account for 17% of all fatal road injuries in the region and twice as many fatalities per hundred thousand registered vehicles compared with occupants of cars. In recent years, too little attention has been given to Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), including PTW users, in the development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Therefore, ITS should be developed that consider PTW riders an integral part of traffic; we focus on three systems that we believe have the potential to improve safety among PTW riders, namely Intersection Safety (INS), the Powered Two Wheeler oncoming vehicle information system (PTW2V), and the Vulnerable road user Beacon System (VBS). The present study aims to estimate quantitatively the safety impacts of the selected ITS for PTW riders in the EU-28, once the systems are fully adopted and meet selected future scenarios for 2020 and 2030.
AB - The current safety situation for Powered Two Wheelers (PTW) within the EU is alarming. According to EU statistics, PTW riders account for 17% of all fatal road injuries in the region and twice as many fatalities per hundred thousand registered vehicles compared with occupants of cars. In recent years, too little attention has been given to Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), including PTW users, in the development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Therefore, ITS should be developed that consider PTW riders an integral part of traffic; we focus on three systems that we believe have the potential to improve safety among PTW riders, namely Intersection Safety (INS), the Powered Two Wheeler oncoming vehicle information system (PTW2V), and the Vulnerable road user Beacon System (VBS). The present study aims to estimate quantitatively the safety impacts of the selected ITS for PTW riders in the EU-28, once the systems are fully adopted and meet selected future scenarios for 2020 and 2030.
KW - Vulnerable road users
KW - Intelligent transport system
KW - Safety impact assessment
KW - PTW riders
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047214917&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s12544-018-0289-5
DO - 10.1186/s12544-018-0289-5
M3 - Article
SN - 1867-0717
VL - 10
JO - European Transport Research Review
JF - European Transport Research Review
M1 - 18
ER -