ATTENTION project to improve road safety

Researchers from the University of Stuttgart and other institutions are collaborating on an applied research project designed to make automated road traffic safer for vulnerable road users. Entitled "ATTENTION: Artificial Intelligence for real-time injury prediction" and scheduled to run for three years, The funding is being provided by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in response to its call for funding applications in the area of "Artificial intelligence as a key technology for the vehicle of the future" . Urban traffic has limited space, varying flows and different road users. Despite increasing automation and traffic networking, the fact that traffic areas are used by multiple parties is and will continue to be a major risk for vulnerable road users ("VRUs"). VRUs are road users whose risk is higher because they are not inside a protective enclosure like the body of a car. They include pedestrians and cyclists. To maximize safety in automated traffic, the severity of the injuries sustained by vulnerable parties in unavoidable collisions needs to be minimized.