Overview
Earlier studies have shown that a recording type of ISA (Intelligent Speed Adaptation) has a great safety potential and good possibilities for quick implementation. The development of a recording type of ISA system was continued on the basis of the results of a field trial conducted in 2002-2003. The City of Helsinki participated in the work as an example of a community partner which could exploit the system. One car owned by the City of Helsinki and seven taxicabs were monitored.
As a result of the further development, the SPEEDAUDIT system (an Internet-based speed monitoring system) will be presented in this report. The user acceptance and applicability of the system as part of the quality assurance and bonus schemes will also be examined.
The idea was to study the possibilities of different ISA options, study their potential, prepare a demo version of the selected ISA variant and propose further work to promote ISA.
The present state of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) was examined as the basis for this study. A Delphi study was done to forecast future ISA scenarios. Also a field trial with a recording ISA for assessing possible traffic safety effects and user acceptance was carried out. The study was finalised with a demonstration with test users, whose experience was examined.
Funding
Results
Recording ISA proved to be a good and cost-effective safety measure, that can be taken into operation fairly quickly. The Recording ISA could be focused on companies and communities as a quality control system, while the Warning ISA is well suited to private cars. Mobile speed enforcement complements this intermediate phase, focusing on those who are not willing to adopt voluntary systems.
Policy implications
Because of the significant traffic safety effects and the most profitable benefit-cost ratio, the dynamic mandatory ISA is recommended to be set as a long-term objective in Finland too. The objective could be reached through certain milestones. In the intermediate phase the Recording ISA and the Warning ISA could perform complementarily to each other on a voluntary basis.
Proceeding through several stages and on a voluntary basis enables the international progress of ISA systems to be adopted in Finland. An important milestone could be if the car industry accepted the idea of ISA into Intelligent Vehicle plans. As standard equipment of new cars, the ISA would be affordable and other telematic services could be integrated into the system. ISA should be implemented as standard equipment in a way that allows various Member States to choose its configuration.
Road
No results directly relevant to this theme. However, please note that findings for the project's key theme - Safety and Security - are generically applicable.
Safety and security
Recording ISA proved to be a good and cost-effective safety measure, that can be taken into operation fairly quickly. The Recording ISA could be focused on companies and communities as a quality control system, while the Warning ISA is well suited to private cars. Mobile speed enforcement complements this intermediate phase, focusing on those who are not willing to adopt voluntary systems.
Intelligent Transport Systems
No results directly relevant to this theme. However, please note that findings for the project's key theme - Safety and Security - are generically applicable.
Vehicle technology
No results directly relevant to this theme. However, please note that findings for the project's key theme - Safety and Security - are generically applicable.