Within the German Research Initiative INVENT, the partial project „Verkehrliche Wirkung,
Recht und Akzeptanz (VRA)“deals with traffic effects, legal aspects, acceptance and …

New in-vehicle driver assistance systems are currently introduced at a rapid pace. To exploit
the full potential of these systems, it is necessary to estimate the systems future impact …

There is a need to estimate impacts of proposed driver assistance systems already at early
stages of the system development process. Estimations of the impacts of new technologies …

The interest in in-vehicle Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is increasing. New
systems such as Adaptive Cruise Controlsand Collision Avoidance Systems are currently …

Modern societies are increasingly confronted with the externalities of road traffic, ie
congestion, unsafety, consumption of scarce space, use of energy and emissions. For …

Advanced Driver Assistance (ADA) or Automated Vehicle Guidance systems can provide
innovative solutions for today's problems of traffic. This paper considers not only ADA …

Abstract The introduction of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in road traffic
induces many complex questions. One of them is whether or not present legislation …

The term driver assistance systems in the chapter title shall be understood to include vehicle
automation. This chapter starts with a homogeneous and consistent classification and …

It is shown in how far driver assistance systems can contribute to enhance the overall traffic
safety. Thereby it must be considered as a goal to increase the performance of active safety …

In the last five years the IKA (Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen) and BMW created the
microscopic traffic simulation program PELOPS. It simulates the traffic flow on motorways …