United States Department of Transportation
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A Simulation Approach to Estimate the Efficacy of Meritor WABCO's Improved Roll Stability Control
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2006-05-01
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Abstract:This report summarizes work performed to model, evaluate and verify the safety benefits of an improved version of the Roll Advisor and Controller (RA&C) on-board safety system. A US Department of Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) Field Operational Test (FOT) led by Freightliner evaluated an RA&C on-board safety system. The RA&C system assists commercial vehicle drivers, especially drivers of tanker trucks, to avoid rollover crashes. The RA&C, comprised of two components that perform two distinct functions: To inform drivers when they have performed a maneuver with a high risk of rollover (the roll stability advisor [RSA] component); and, To initiate autonomous braking to prevent a rollover (the roll stability control [RSC] component). All of the data analyzed in this report came from the Freightliner IVI FOT. Data were collected on six Freightliner tractors pulling tank trailers of liquid nitrogen in revenue service during late 2000 through 2001. The methods for estimating the benefits of a safety system were developed by Battelle as part of the independent evaluation of the FOT. This report describes how the methods of the independent evaluation were applied to the data of the FOT to predict the benefits of an improved RSC, without conducting a new field test of the system
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