Andrew Nathanson's research while affiliated with Transport Research Laboratory and other places

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Objective: Autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems fitted to cars for pedestrians have been predicted to offer substantial benefit. On this basis, consumer rating programs-for example, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP)-are developing rating schemes to encourage fitment of these systems. One of the questions that needs to be...
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Objective: The objective of the current study was to estimate the benefit for Europe of fitting precrash braking systems to cars that detect pedestrians and autonomously brake the car to prevent or lower the speed of the impact with the pedestrian. Methods: The analysis was divided into 2 main parts: (1) Develop and apply methodology to estimate...

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... For traditional transportation systems, the vehicles active safety focus on the active control aiming at the vehicle itself. For example, ABS is used to provide maximum friction between tire and road and maintain braking stability of the vehicle [4]- [6]. Electronic Stability Control (ESC) is proposed based on existing ABS controlling the braking force of different wheels to improve the vehicle yaw stability [7]- [9]. ...
... A reduction in vehicle collision speed from 50 km/h to 30 km/h resulted in a five-fold reduction in the VRU fatality rate [6]. Zhao et al. [7] and Edwards et al. [8] showed that an active braking system can assist and replace the driver to implement braking, effectively avoiding collision between the vehicle and VRUs. Themann et al. [9] and Bachmann et al. [10] pointed out that the position of VRUs could be accurately obtained by using the communication technology between vehicles and infrastructure as well as the communication technology based on smartphones or smartwatches, in order to enhance the collision avoidance effect of the active braking system. ...