ITS as a tool towards forgiving and self-explanatory road infrastructure

Road safety engineering measures may reduce casualties by 6.5 per cent. IN-SAFETY is a research and development project, co-funded by the European Community and aims to use intelligent, intuitive and cost-efficient combinations of new technologies and traditional infrastructure best practice applications, in order to enhance the forgiving and self-explanatory nature of roads. This will be achieved by activities, such as building consensus on priorities for regulation and standardisation processes, the development and testing of new simulation models and risk analysis tools to estimate the safety of roads, training tools and curricula for road, TMIC and tunnel operators, issuing priority implementation scenarios, guidelines for research and policy recommendations for cost efficient road environment development.