D.R.I.V.E.

Dedicated Road Infrastructure for Vehicle Safety in

Europe
What is DRIVE?

■ Is a major European initiative begun in 1988 to apply information technology to the

improvement of road safety and the reduction of environmental pollution by road
traffic.
■ Developed under the Commission of European Communities(CEC)
■ Part of the 3rd Framework Program for Research and Technology Development
Advantages of Drive

■ To act as a catalyst in generating interest in the application of the new technologies

■ To help drivers stay away from traffic congestions and easily find parking space, thus
easing their mental stress for a safer drive
■ To safe fuel consumption and reduce exhaust emissions
Three Phases of Drive

■ DRIVE I(Exploring the Options)

Was a feasibility study that was later realized as something that
needed further research.
■ DRIVE II(Preparing for Implementations)
Was the start of fieldwork for the study made in DRIVE I.
■ DRIVE III(Large Scale Pilot Implementations)
Due to its success in small scale projects around Europe further
projects and plans were made to further extend its objectives around
Europe.
DRIVE I

■ The DRIVE program was adopted for a period of three years in June 1988, and work
started in January 1989. Within its framework about 1000 experts from more than
300 European companies are collaborating on 71 projects worth 120 million Euros.
DRIVE entails: research, development and assessment of a range of Road Traffic
Informatics (RTI) technologies; the evaluation of strategic choices of candidate
systems; and a significant amount of standardization work.
DRIVE II-Advanced Road Transport
Telematics (ATT)
■ Is a preparation for the implementation and validation of the results from DRIVE I
projects through field trials or pilot projects. There are currently 56 projects of the
program. The 5 largest are known as “Euro-Projects” which were developed from the
POLIS initiative known as GAUDI, LLAMD, SCOPE, CITIES, and QUARTET. Each of the
five projects includes a number of applications of ATT. Each of the projects aims to
investigate the integration of ATT applications into an Integrated Road Transport
Environment(IRTE).
7 Topics of Interest of DRIVE

■ Demand Management(DM)
■ Traffic and Travel Information(TTI)
■ Integrated Urban Traffic Management(IUTM)
■ Integrated Inter-Urban Traffic Management(IIUTM)
■ Driver Assistance and Cooperative Driving(DACD)
■ Freight and Fleet Management(FFM)
■ Public Transport Management(PTM)
Ways to address DRIVE II’s Objectives

■ Build an integrated model structure appropriate for RTI policy analysis including a
set of evaluation criteria.
■ Building simulation systems suitable for testing RTI systems performance in urban
and interurban areas
■ Evaluate changes of behavior due to RTI systems introduction
■ Assess long term impacts of RTI strategies on land use, activity patterns and the
European Transport Industry
■ Design of appropriate evaluation framework using the same criteria and under the
same assumptions where the results of cost/benefit analysis will be inserted into
framework of a multiple criteria-oriented evaluation
 Demand Management

■ is the application of strategies and

policies to reduce travel demand, or to
redistribute this demand in
space(wider roads) or in time(time
ban).
■ In transportation, managing demand
can be a cost-effective alternative to
increasing capacity. A demand
management approach to transport
also has the potential to deliver better
environmental outcomes.
Traffic and Travel Information
■ Is a key element of Intelligent Transport Systems deployment. It can provide the
European traveler with well-informed travel decisions(before trip) as well as
information during the trip.
■ Objectives:
– Safety
– Efficiency
– Environment
■ Projects:
– V2012-PROMISE:PROMETHEUS CED 10 –Mobile and Portable Information
System in Europe
– V2013-SOCRATES KERNEL : System of Cellular Radio for Traffic Efficiency and
Safety
– V2014-ICAR: Integrated Confined Areas RTI Communication System
– V2020-EAVES: Evaluation and Assessment of Variable European Sign Systems
– V2021–INTERCHANGE: European Traveler Information Network
– V2028-ALERT:ATT-Advice and Problem Location for European Road Traffic
– V2033-LLAMD:The LLAMD (London, Lyon, Amsterdam, Munich and
Dublin)Euro-Project
 Integrated Urban Traffic Management
■ Urban traffic control (UTC) systems are a
specialist form of traffic management
which integrate and co-ordinate traffic
signal control over a wide area in order to
control traffic flows on the road network.
Integration and co-ordination between
adjacent traffic signals involves designing
a plan based on the occurrence and
duration of individual signal aspects and
the time offsets between them and
introducing a system to link the signals
together electronically. A traffic responsive
signal control system is a means of
adjusting the traffic signal settings (cycles,
green splits and offsets), which optimize a
given objective function, such as
minimizing travel time or stops, in real-
time based upon estimates of traffic
conditions.
The flow of information in SCOOT based integrated UTM system
Integrated Inter-Urban Traffic
Management
■ Aims to Keep the road available and safe, Ensure the smooth operation of traffic
flow, and to assist drivers and provide travel services

■ Inter–urban traffic management can be considered at two levels :

TACTICAL- Local traffic management systems target improved capacity, the
prevention of flow breakdown and the enhancement of road safety.
STRATEGIC-Strategic traffic control operates on the regional network and has a
much stronger emphasis on savings in journey time.
What are Inter–Urban Traffic Management
Systems?
■ Motorway and roadside signals
■ Driver information systems
■ Ramp metering
■ Controlled motorways
■ Diversion routes
■ Lane control
How do Inter–Urban Traffic Management
Systems Work?
■ Strategic Rerouting
■ Monitoring the Network
■ Integration with Local Road Networks
■ System architecture
 Driver Assistance and Cooperative
Driving
■ Are technologies used to make motor
vehicle travel safer by automating,
improving, or adapting some or all
the tasks involved in operating a
vehicle.
 Examples of Driver Assistance Systems

■ Adaptive Cruise Control

■ Anti-lock braking systems
■ Global Positioning System(GPS)
■ Automatic Braking
■ Blind Spot Detection
■ Reverse Parking Assistant
■ Adaptive Light Control(For Night Driving)
Applications of Driver Assistance and
Co-operative Driving
■ Driver Monitoring
■ Driver Tutoring
■ Driver Information Enhancement
■ Driver Dialogue Management
■ Co-Driver Systems in advisory, semi-automatic and automatic mode
 Freight and Fleet Management
■ Consist of a number of telematic
systems which use remote devices
on both freight vehicles and
trailers to control and monitor
freight operations and present this
data in a useable format to freight
managers, either as real time data
or static data.
Functions of FFM

■ Data on the Performance of Drivers and Vehicles

■ Vehicle Tracking Systems via GPS
■ Text Message Communication
■ Trailer Tracking
■ Proof of Delivery Receipt
■ Traffic Information via GPS
■ On-Board Navigation Systems via GPS
 Public Transport Management
■ PTM is an integral part of an urban
transportation system. It merges
behavioral sciences and systems
engineering to determine how to improve
the flow of passengers on transit, to
understand the demand, and to offer
policy solutions to transit agencies to
respond to emerging challenges
PTM’s Focus

■ Vehicle Scheduling and Control Systems(VSCS)

■ Fare collection systems
■ Passenger information systems
■ Bus priority within the traffic management system
■ Integration of Urban Traffic Control(UTC) systems
■ Sharing of road space with other vehicles including freight and delivery systems
 Objectives of PTM

■ Improved efficiency of the total

transportation system
■ Reduces energy requirements of the
transportation system
■ Reduces vehicle emissions
■ Increases safety for the citizens of Europe
■ Increases mobility for the citizens of
Europe