Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems (CICAS)

CICAS Program overview (McHale) - 01.-2008

CICAS Gap Assistance Projects ITSWC - 10.2007

CICAS Overview ITS WC -10.2007

CICAS-V Cost of Intersection Crashes

Intersection Collision Avoidance Violation Project - Final Report - 04.2007

Intersection Collision Avoidance Study - 09.2003

Research reports from related (Intelligent Vehicle Initiative) IVI projects that preceded the CICAS program. Much of this research is foundational to the current CICAS program and can be viewed as the “precursor” to CICAS.

Intersection Collision Avoidance – Violation (ICAV) report

Minnesota Intersection Decision Support (IDS) report

Virginia Intersection Decision Support (IDS) report

California Intersection Decision Support (IDS) report

Tolling and Payment Applications - Concept of Operations - 09.2007

 

 

Transit VII Program Plan - 11.2007

VII Applications for Public Transit (final report) - 10.2006

 

 

The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has conducted extensive research on the effectiveness of vehicle-based collision countermeasures for rear-end, road departure, and lane change crashes. Field Operational Tests (FOT’s) of rear-end and road departure collision warning systems have shown measurable benefits in reduction of crashes. However, the systems have inherent shortcomings that reduce their effectiveness such as misidentification of stopped cars and out of path obstacles for rear-end collision warning systems, and map errors and misidentified lane markings for road departure crash warning systems.

The U.S. DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Research and Innovative Technology Administration are exploring how enhancements in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications could improve collision warning systems’ over the next four to six years and beyond. This research is intended to enhance current and future automotive safety systems, such as adaptive cruise control, Emergency Electronic Brake Lights (EEBL) and intersection collision avoidance. Many of these applications are being developed today without V2V communications. The potential for improved performance over the existing autonomous systems could enhance current safety systems and enable new safety applications to save lives and reduce injuries.

The primary objective of this joint initiative between U.S. DOT and members of the automobile industry is to determine if certain applications that utilize Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) can improve upon and/or enable the performance of vehicle-based systems.

VSCA Presentation

Intelligent Vehicle Safety Applications Enabled by DSRC