Commercial Vehicle Rollover Prevention Tech

This project is for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to conduct a study to evaluate the safety effectiveness of Collision Mitigation Braking (CMB) systems for heavy trucks. CMB systems are forward-looking, radar-based systems comprising warning and adaptive cruise control (ACC) with active braking and can assist a driver by providing deceleration prior to the driver being able to apply the brakes in emergency situations. The CMB's system's adaptive cruise control and automated braking can help to encourage drivers to have safer following distances and provide active braking, as needed in the situations where the system detects a potential crash imminent situation.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Transportation, Planning, Research and Development

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $950000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTOS59-10-G-00103

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Department of Transportation

  Office of the Secretary
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Breithaupt, Deidre

• Performing Organizations:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, D.C.  United States  20590
• Principal Investigators:

  Svenson, Alrik

• Start Date: 20090831
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20120228
• Source Data: RiP Project 31072

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Braking performance; Commercial vehicles; Cruise control; Deceleration; Rollover crashes; Trucks; Warning devices
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01492261
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DTOS59-10-G-00103
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Sep 4 2013 1:01AM