The effectiveness of lane departure warning systems—A reduction in real-world passenger car injury crashes
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the safety benefits of in vehicle lane departure warning (LDW) and lane keeping aid (LKA) systems in reducing relevant real-world passenger car injury crashes. Methods: The study used an induced exposure method, where LDW/LKA-sensitive and nonsensitive crashes were compared for Volvo passenger cars equipped with and without LDW/LKA systems. These crashes were matched by car make, model, model year, and technical equipment; that is, low-speed autonomous emergency braking (AEB) called City Safety (CS). The data were extracted from the Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition database (STRADA) and consisted of 1,853 driver injury crashes that involved 146 LDW-equipped cars, 11 LKA-equipped cars, and 1,696 cars without LDW/LKA systems. Results: The analysis showed a positive effect of the LDW/LKA systems in reducing lane departure crashes. The LDW/LKA systems were estimated to reduce head-on and single-vehicle injury crashes on Swedish roads with speed limits between 70 and 120 km/h and with dry or wet road surfaces (i.e., not covered by ice or snow) by 53% with a lower limit of 11% (95% confidence interval [CI]). This reduction corresponded to a reduction of 30% with a lower limit of 6% (95% CI) for all head-on and single-vehicle driver injury crashes (including all speed limits and all road surface conditions). Conclusions: LDW/LKA systems were estimated to lower the driver injury risk in crash types that the systems are designed to prevent; that is, head-on and single-vehicle crashes. Though these are important findings, they were based on a small data set. Therefore, further research is desirable to evaluate the effectiveness of LDW/LKA systems under real-world conditions and to differentiate the effectiveness between technical solutions (i.e., LDW and LKA) proposed by different manufacturers.

lateral support

injury

effectiveness

LDW

cars

safety

lane departure

lane keeping

Författare

Simon Sternlund

Chalmers, Tillämpad mekanik, Fordonsteknik och autonoma system

Johan Strandroth

Chalmers, Tillämpad mekanik, Fordonssäkerhet

Matteo Rizzi

Chalmers, Tillämpad mekanik, Fordonssäkerhet

Anders Lie

Chalmers, Tillämpad mekanik, Fordonsteknik och autonoma system

Claes Tingvall

Chalmers, Tillämpad mekanik, Fordonsteknik och autonoma system

Traffic Injury Prevention

1538-9588 (ISSN) 1538-957X (eISSN)

Vol. 18 2 225-229

Ämneskategorier

Maskinteknik

DOI

10.1080/15389588.2016.1230672

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Skapat

2017-10-08