Making future mobility safe

As innovations like connected automated vehicles (CAVs) disrupt mobility as we know it, new safety challenges will keep emerging. Rather than using the traditional approach of post-collision analysis, SAFE-UP is proactively designing and analysing safety-critical scenarios in a highly automated and mixed traffic environment by integrating traffic accident data and future traffic conditions with new forms of safety metrics and sub-microscopic models in a traffic simulation platform. To validate the potential of these concepts, SAFE-UP will use two types of use cases (one urban and one non-urban) covering at least 64% of all current traffic fatalities.

In recent years, progress has stalled in Europe’s efforts to reduce road fatalities. Now, with an ambitious vision to reach no deaths and serious injuries on European roads by 2050, the European Commission has set out its Vision Zero. EuroRAP’s Secretary General, Lina Konstantinopoulou, highlighted the scale of the challenge in creating a Europe free of high-risk roads:

With the right infrastructure, future mobility developments in SAFE-UP present an opportunity to make roads safer for everyone!