A formal work plan is still in development. However, the goals and approach for this initiative are described below.
Goals
The goals of the CICAS Program are to develop and demonstrate cooperative intersection collision avoidance systems for both violations and gaps; to assess the value and acceptance of cooperative collision avoidance systems; and to develop and provide tools to support industry deployments.
Approach
The CICAS initiative supports research, systems integration activities, and demonstrations that will produce a system prototype (or set of prototypes) that will undertake a large-scale field operational test by 2009. To produce this result the initiative will:
develop prototypes of countermeasures against control violations
continue research activities on countermeasures relating to gap acceptance, and produce prototypes
complete a prototype that includes cooperative vehicle-based and infrastructure components and that addresses both control violations and gap acceptance.
CICAS builds on research and operational tests originally conducted under USDOT's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative. The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) initiative will provide the enabling communication capability necessary for cooperative crash avoidance systems by developing and
enabling the deployment of on-board units (OBUs) and roadside units (RSUs) for communication and information processing. The VII initiative and the CICAS initiative will be closely coordinated, particularly for field operational tests. The CICAS Program will also coordinate with the
Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) initiative, especially with regard to the integration of on-board sensors and driver-vehicle interfaces (DVI – a method for how the system communicates to the driver).
