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Identifying and Analyzing Reference Scenarios for the Development and Evaluation of Active Safety: Application to Preventive Pedestrian Safety

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To develop and evaluate active safety systems, reference scenarios need to be identified and analyzed. In this research, a methodology for the deduction of reference scenarios and a simulation approach to evaluate the effectiveness of those systems is presented. Using the example of preventive pedestrian safety, accident data of the United States and Germany were analyzed to identify representative scenarios. Data of both countries show similar results and a combined set of scenarios was derived which could function as specifications for new systems, input parameters for simulation models and representative test scenarios for real world and simulator testing.

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Special thanks go to the German Academic Exchange Service that supported this transatlantic research by a scholarship.

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  1. BMW Group, 80788, Munich, Germany

    Adrian Ebner & Thomas Helmer

  2. George Washington University, 45085 University Drive, Ashburn, VA, 20147, USA

    Randa Radwan Samaha & Paul Scullion

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Ebner, A., Helmer, T., Samaha, R.R. et al. Identifying and Analyzing Reference Scenarios for the Development and Evaluation of Active Safety: Application to Preventive Pedestrian Safety. Int. J. ITS Res. 9, 128–138 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13177-011-0035-z

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