Dear SC,
attached you can find the meeting minutes from yesterday. Below you can find the request from V4Safety.
Best regards
Tuan
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Dear
tool provider X,
Since simulation is gaining a solid position in safety assessment of CCAM, it is now time
to secure a good consolidation in assessment methods and procedures.
The EU V4Safety consortium invites you to become an
associated partner of the project.
In this way, you have a first-hand insight on the intermediate results and can help the project to steer towards a feasible and viable way of using simulation.
The V4Safety consortium is working in response to
an interesting project call to be released by the EC in the Horizon Europe framework program:
HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01-06
(Area A), Predictive safety assessment framework.
The EC asks for a project with the following outcome:
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Harmonised, prospective assessment framework for road safety, both active and passive, solutions (for policy, regulatory and consumer assessment).
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Comprehensive virtual representation of challenging scenarios in future road traffic.
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Well-founded prognoses on the effects of new solutions on road safety and protection of vulnerable road users and vehicle occupants.
We have initiated a consortium with the partners in P.E.A.R.S. (Prospective
Effectiveness Assessment for Road Safety) as a basis, and are currently working on a project proposal to address this call. The deadline for submitting the proposal is January 12th, 2022.
There is a lot of experience on prospective safety assessment using virtual
simulations in our team. P.E.A.R.S., established in 2012, has been working on guidelines for such a framework as input to ISO TC22/SC36/WG7, and ISO has recently published a Technical Report: ISO-TR-21934 “Road vehicles — Prospective safety performance assessment
of pre-crash technology by virtual simulation — Part 1: State-of-the-art and general method overview”. A Technical Specification “–Part 2: Guidelines for application” has been drafted and has been send for review to WG7.
The framework that we draft should be generically applicable, and independent
of the simulation tool that is being used. On the other hand, the developed framework should be feasible in its application and available to any of the stakeholders in Europe.
This means that interfacing with simulation on the level of functional flow and data content needs to be specified – both on input to simulation and the use of the simulation results in drawing a safety conclusion.
This e-mail is an invitation to your organization to become associate partner
in the V4SAFETY project. Joining as an associated partner is a light form of collaboration with no formal obligations for the associated partner.
As a simulation tool provider, you are an important stakeholder in prospective safety assessment. As an associate partner, we will engage you in setting up the framework. We will share project results with you in an early stage, and you will have the chance
to provide feedback and steer the consortium in this way. It might be important for you to realize that Euro NCAP has already indicated to participate in V4SAFETY as member of the steering board.
Could you let us know whether you are interested to join as an associated partner?
Kind regards,
Your name