The 2009 Call was a cross-border funded joint research programme on the subject of „Road Safety with focus on Self-Explaining Road and Forgiving Roadsides“. 11 National Road Administrations from different countries participated in this programme, each paying € 150.000,-over 30 months. The total Budget for funding projects was 1,485 Mio. EUR (165.000 EUR administration costs).
The call was opened on March 6th 2009 and closed on April 27th 2009.
18 proposals with 66 partners from 19 different countries were submitted for the call. 7 of those countries are not members of the funding Programme Executive Board (PEB) of ERA-NET ROAD. This proves openness of this cross-border funded joint research programme! 5 projects were selected for financing and two of these selected projects have started working now.
Please click on this link to find information regarding the results of the call including a more detailed list of the projects that have been selected.The following are the 5 projects that selected. Please click on their respective titles to download the individual project descriptions.
ERASER: Evaluations to Realise a common Approach to Self-explaining European Roads
A concise literature review on Self-Explaining Roads along with some pilots, outputs to include a checklist. Furthermore it is translating existing fundamental knowledge into practical guidelines for Road Authorities.
ERASER Project Description (.pdf)
ERASER Presentation from Joint Meeting in Budapest on 4 March 2010
RISMET: Road Infrastructure Safety Management Evaluation Tools
It encompasses statistically reliable evaluation tools, though it relies on accident models without combining the information of accident models and the information of accidents happened on road section in question.
RISMET Project Description (.pdf)
RISMET Presentation from Joint Meeting in Budapest on 4 March 2010
SPACE: Speed Adaption Control by Self Explaining Roads
It focuses on self explaining roads, identifying parameters and validation through simulation. It has lots of benefits to road safety auditors and also the use of driver simulator is good to make findings robust.
SPACE Project Description (.pdf)
SPACE Presentation and details from Joint Meeting in Budapest on 4 March 2010
IRDES: Improving Roadside Design to Forgive Human Errors
Covers a broad range of Forgiving Roadsides and will achieve an evaluation tool along with practical solutions to make roadsides more forgiving. It includes the monitoring of a dangerous road.
IRDES Project Description (.pdf)
IRDES Presentation from Joint Meeting in Budapest on 4 March 2010
EuRSI: European Road Safety Inspection
Project proposal focuses on forgiving road sides and methods of evaluation using innovative automated mapping systems for the identification of hazards.
EuRSI Project Description (.pdf)
EuRSI Presentation from Joint Meeting in Budapest on 4 March 2010 coming soon!
Total Sum
1.483.857 €
