Making future mobility safer for people inside and outside the vehicle

The European Commission’s EU Research Results platform CORDIS has published a feature on the SAFE-UP project.

In a bid to empower all road users, the SAFE-UP project has launched its e-Learning Platform. The platform has been designed to raise awareness among all individuals interested in the SAFE-UP project and its outcomes, regardless of their technical expertise. Leveraging the expertise of the project's team, the eLearning courses offer a wealth of knowledge translated into easily digestible content, ensuring that users can navigate the intricacies of future traffic scenarios seamlessly. The platform is a product of tireless efforts in knowledge translation carried out within the project.

The SAFE-UP project, with its ambition to make future mobility safer for both occupants and pedestrians, held its final project conference last month on May 17th at the headquarters of lead partner Applus+ IDIADA in Spain. The event brought together around 50 participants, including researchers, policymakers, automotive experts, and road safety enthusiasts, who witnessed the project's remarkable advancements in active and passive safety systems for autonomous vehicles.

Work package 2 focuses on improving simulation tools to understand the impact of automated vehicles. In order to do so, metrics are being developed to identify safety-critical interactions and assess their severity. Typically, critical interactions are identified by applying specific thresholds to the measures of vehicle separation, such as space, time, or speed. While Deliverable 2.5 reviewed the literature on the topic and identified the further development necessary for the project, Deliverable 2.14 presents the defined metrics and their use.

On May 17th 2023, join researchers, policymakers, automotive experts and road safety enthusiasts at Applus+ IDIADA for a showcase of SAFE-UP’s final demonstrators, and gain insights from the experts behind the project.