road safety

Information on the technical functioning, impacts, interoperability and acceptance of ITS systems is crucial to making decisions on the deployment of these systems. The resources, time and amount of data available for evaluation studies of a potential ITS system are often more or less limited. A need for more agile evaluation methods has been identified.

We analyse the characteristics of early adopters of two intelligent vehicle safety systems, emergency braking and speed alert. Car users’ experiences with the two systems and the characteristics of early adopters of the systems were studied with an online survey organised in five European countries: Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. All of the studied variables related to the user – gender, age, kilometres driven annually and monthly household income – had a statistically significant relationship with using emergency braking.