Safer intersections

Innovative vehicle and infrastructure technology being developed in the European Intersafe-2 research project is targeting known issues of road safety at intersections, with the aim of improving safety at intersections by up to 80 per cent. Four systems giving assistance to drivers for right turns, left turns, intersections and addressing give way situations could make major reductions in accidents. Sensor technology installed in vehicles and at intersections relay messages and help boost safety. Finnish re
June 21, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Innovative vehicle and infrastructure technology being developed in the European 5971 Intersafe-2 research project is targeting known issues of road safety at intersections, with the aim of improving safety at intersections by up to 80 per cent.

Four systems giving assistance to drivers for right turns, left turns, intersections and addressing give way situations could make major reductions in accidents. Sensor technology installed in vehicles and at intersections relay messages and help boost safety. Finnish research institute 814 VTT has also been developing a roadside system that measures the friction of the road surface as well as a system to combine all the sensor data for vehicles approaching a junction. Participants in in the Intersafe-2 project include 1731 BMW, IKA, 1068 NEC Europe, 129 Swarco, 5972 TRW Conekt, 536 Sick, the 5974 Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 609 Volvo, 814 VTT and 994 Volkswagen.
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