As required by the General and Pedestrian Safety Regulations, the European Commission has been conducting a review of the regulations to develop proposals for amendments to include new safety features. A first stage of the review was completed and reported by TRL in 20151 . This initial review considered over 50 candidate measures that could be considered for implementation in the GSR or PSR. The outputs were indicative cost-benefits provided in order to differentiate those measures that are very likely, moderately likely or very unlikely to provide a benefit consistent with the cost of implementation.
A second stage of the review is currently being conducted, based on candidate measures identified in the first stage review. To investigate further the real world safety benefits that could be afforded if certain measures were adopted, ACEA has commissioned TRL to perform a first-step analysis to identify the target populations for eight of the measures:
- VIS – improved front end design for direct vision and VRU detection
- ISA – Intelligent Speed Assistance
- FSO – Frontal impact Small Overlap crash test
- SFS – Side impact Far Side occupant crash test
- F94 – Frontal Impact Crash Test (removal of exemptions from Regulation 94)
- S95 – Side Impact Crash Test (removal of exemptions from Regulation 95)
- HED – Adult Head to Windscreen Area R
- EV – Reversing Detection
The aim of this study was to undertake new accident analysis, using data from Great Britain (GB), to identify and quantify the road user casualty target populations (TP) that are likely to benefit from the introduction of each of the eight potential measures listed above.
