ASSESSMENT OF AUTONOMOUS EMERGENCY BRAKING (AEB) PEDESTRIAN SYSTEM IMPACT ON 2016 – 2020 MALAYSIAN ANIMAL-CROSSINGS ACCIDENTS DATA

The trend of animal-vehicle collision (AVCs) occurrences over the past years demonstrates increasing numbers, and this call for a proper mitigation plan by appropriate authority bodies. Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) pedestrian system - proven effective in collision prevention and mitigation for vehicle-pedestrian collision – can potentially expand its original functionality to AVCs avoidance. This study presents a new data assessment method to predict the impact of AEB pedestrian system implementation on vehicles to reduce AVCs cases from 2016 to 2020. In general, a new scoring system is introduced whereby fitment rating points of 1, 0.5 and 0 are given to describe successful crash avoidance, crash mitigation with reduced damage and failed crash avoidance. Several noteworthy findings were discovered in assessing impact data from five significant AEB-AVCs. The effectiveness of AEB is found to be correlated with camera detection, system working speed range, frequent collision time, human casualties, and heavy vehicles. In general, the results indicate overall positive consequences of AEB implementation to reduce AVCs, providing concrete reasoning for standardising AEB pedestrian systems in all manufactured road-legal vehicles for upcoming years

REARWARD VISIBILITY ASSESSMENT FOR SELECTED PASSENGER IN ASEAN COUNTRIES

ASEAN region consists of the greatest number of motorcycle-related accidents with severe and fatal casualties in Asia. Limited or blocked rearward visibility of vehicles has long been viewed as one of the causes of motorcycle accident. In this study, the rearward visibility of sixteen passenger vehicles have been assessed and analyzed using a new assessment based on some aspects of ECE46 and FMVSS III international protocols for Class I (internal rearview mirror) and Class III (side-view mirror). A novel scoring system based on the average width of underbone-type motorcycles in Malaysia and Indonesia is proposed to highlight the importance of rearward visibility towards the conspicuity of motorcycles. The results of the assessment show that there are two distinct vehicle groups in terms of rearward visibility: pick-up trucks and non-pickup vehicles. Pick-up trucks tend to have more prominent rearward visibility for CLASS I and III due to its bigger mirror, windscreen and body structure