At the beginning of 2011, road accidents are still in the center of our major concerns. 2010-2020 was declared by the European commission "decade of the road safety“. After a dramatic decrease of the number of people killed on the French roads in the early 2000s, their number decreased more slowly in recent years, even increases during the first two months of this year. Early analysis shows an increase in the percentage of pedestrians and two-wheelers (motorized and no motorized) involved in fatal traffic accidents. Different systems of collecting information on road safety have already been carried out in the 90s and 2000s to assess road safety during these periods. They particularly focused on fatal accidents. Among these, they deal only with immediately fatal accidents. In this way, they were only an imperfect reflection of the reality of the French road accidents. For further progress in the field of road safety in order to place France among the safest countries in the world, it is necessary to have complete and accurate information. In this new project, we propose to perform a new database of road accidents that occurred during the year 2010 and to expand the fields of observation not only to fatal accidents but also to traffic accidents with injuries. Much of this study in terms of workload is dedicated to building the information system by identifying and collecting relevant variables. In practice, the task consists in coding the police reports of crashes with fatalities (FPR) or injuries (IPR) in which the people included in the Rhône register were involved. That means that the database includes the details of the accidents and the full medical records of the people involved in the accidents. This comprehensive database will provide the basis for the correction of the national accident database from the parallel analysis of all the national FPR and 1/20th of the national IPR. In addition, specific studies will enhance knowledge on certain particularly sensitive categories of road users such as pedestrians, children, 2-wheelers and elderly people. Finally, the project will update the comprehensive information system on road safety that dates from 2000.

Le projet REMPARE a pour objectif d'apporter des réponses opérationnelles pour la conception de merlons de protection contre les impacts localisés. Il vise tout particulièrement l'amélioration des méthodes de conception des ouvrages de défense passive vis-à-vis des chutes de blocs, d'énergie faible à moyenne, en intégrant la valorisation de résidus anthropiques recyclés de type pneumatiques usagés dans un concept innovant dissipatif d'énergie. Les approches traditionnelles de dimensionnement sont fondées sur des méthodes pseudo-statiques conservatrices. Elles ne permettent pas de répondre aux développements technologiques intégrant un noyau dissipateur qui minimise l'emprise des ouvrages par leur Re-ingénierie. En cas d'événement avéré, le comportement de l'ouvrage peut être réevalué et la modularité de sa conception intègre la réparabilité facilitée des tronçons endommagés de manière irréversible. La stratégie du projet repose sur une approche scientifique et pragmatique à trois niveaux basée sur la conception et la réalisation de modélisations pointues, la validation/calage par l'approche expérimentale et le transfert technolgique vers l'Ingénierie opérationnelle. Une approche multi-échelle du matériau dans l'ouvrage est retenue : pour les modélisations et les expérimentations réalisées en laboratoire et sur site réel instrumenté._x000D_ Les objectifs visés permettront :_x000D_ - de développer des modèles numériques évolués de merlons cellulaires sous impacts_x000D_ - d'optimiser la conception, le dimensionnement, l'emprise au sol et la réparabilité des merlons_x000D_ - de démontrer l'intérêt technique et économique de la valorisation de matériau recyclé_x000D_ - d'améliorer les méthodes d'ingénierie de dimensionnement de merlons_x000D_ - de valider l'impact environnemental en scenario

The research project ROADSENSE aims to define, conceive, deploy and validate experimentally a driving assistance for motored road users. This assistance is delivered by audio tactile lines installed on the road, producing an alert by sound and vibration into the vehicle while passing on it. This alert is intended to correct the lane departures of distracted, disoriented or tired drivers having difficulties to perceive the road or to position their vehicle, or more generally having a hazardous or erratic trajectory compared to their circulating lane in rural roads. In order to achieve this target, the research project ROADSENSE aims: • To propose a functional framework of road safety based on a review of the art and on the identification of the stakes and the rural road crashes mechanisms, • To characterize and to identify the sound and vibrations of existing alert lines • To conceive and validate relevant sound signals (sound) from psychoacoustics surveys on a panel of users, to recreate the on a numerical synthesizer • To implement the sound and vibration signs on a driving simulator, to set up reference scenarios • To experiment the efficiency and the acceptability of alert lines by audio-tactile delimitation of the driving lane from surveys on panels of users (i) on a driving simulator, (ii) on a test track and (iii) on open roads • To define and develop tools and methods enabling to evaluate the efficiency of the road devices from 3 roads test sites locally equipped in order to prepare an applicative research project (FUI). The efforts on the encoding of sounds and vibration to conceive audio tactile alert lines will offer a great opportunity to validate rigorously new low cost driving assist systems, that can be deployed on a short term and that should answer to the needs of the whole park of existing vehicles on the roads infrastructures.

The safety of powered two wheelers (PTW) plays an important role for the public authorities and the road managers. Globally speaking, since 2002, even the road safety has eventually increased but still the num of accidents involving the PTW are at high. If we look at the figures: PTW represent only 1 % of the total traffic but 28 % of the persons killed on the road. The risk of getting killed on a motorcycle is 24 times more than on a car. Since past few years, there has been a notably significant rise in the number of PTW but it is allowed a lack of data and information on PTW use and the interactions of PTW with the other road users and the road infrastructure. The state of the art conducted in 2009 showed that there is no technical solution as such that can be adapted to measure of the traffic of this specific category of vehicle (unlike the cars and the trucks) and the research development in this domain isn’t much active which is an issue of concern. The project METRAMOTO aims not only to detect and follow the PTW in the traffic to get enough measurers to be used to the relative statistics with the circulation of PTW but also to identify the trajectory of PTW to analyze their interactions with the others vehicles. These objectives deal the mobility, the road operation and the road safety. These tools will be developed around several sensors technologies used in the domain of road traffic. The work will be realized by distinguishing the ones who need intrusive intervention on the road infrastructure (hybrid sensor piezo-electric + electromagnetic loop and magnetometers) to the one non-intrusive (image analysis and laser range finder). The companies in partnership for the project will implement the results of this research works and thereof having short-term industrial solutions. With the help of road managers, we will evaluate and compare the results. The output in order to get an overview of the technology developed with respect to the objective to be attained so that one is capable of targeting the proper field of application of each of these technologies