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IMPROVER (subproject 3: Cruise control)

Impact Assessment of Safety Measures for Vehicles and Road Equipment

Project details
Domain	Vehicle Technology: Active Safety
Duration	from 11/2004 until 05/2006
Website
Other sources	IMPROVER (subproject 1: Sports Utility Vehicles) IMPROVER (subproject 2: Light vans) IMPROVER (subproject 4: Road signs) Final Report subproject 3 (439 kB)

The IMPROVER project is a study commissioned by the European Commission (Directorate General Energy and Transport) to examine the following aspects of road safety:

the impact on road safety due to the increasing use of sports utility and multipurpose vehicles,
the impact assessment of measures improving the road safety of light vans,
the impact of Cruise Control on traffic safety, energy consumption, and environmental pollution and
the harmonisation of road signs and road markings from a safety point of view.

According to the tasks the project is divided into four subprojects.

Coordinator
BAST - Federal Highway Research Institute (DE)
Partners
TNO - Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (NL) TRL - Transport Research Laboratory (UK) VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) VTI - Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (SE)