Abstract
One of the main priority directions of Russian government services and vehicle manufacturers is the increasing of traffic safety. This article deals with the problem of “safety vehicle” design. Commercial vehicles in Russia constitute a sizeable part of all vehicles, produced in The Russian Federation (RF). In this connection, the problems of “safety vehicle” design and using of intelligent systems are pressing nowadays. It is well known that every year more than 8 000 000 road accidents are registered in RF. More than 30% of them happened with the commercial vehicles participation. In the case of heavy road accidents the high percentage of injured and deceased people could be seen. Using of effective active and passive safety systems could change this situation for the better. Authors of the paper analyze the traffic situation in Russia and make a suggestion of possible ways of increasing of road safety as a result of intelligent systems using adjusted for Russian traffic condition peculiarities. The special attention is given to the most topical problems: Road accidents amount decreasing as a result of using: alcohol detection based ignition locking (because one of the abundant reasons of road accidents in RF is driving under the alcohol influence); Pedestrians protection with the help of: radars and video systems; pedestrians auditory messaging systems; electronic navigation systems, which notify the driver about approaching of special attention areas (pedestrian crossing and traffic lights, bus stops, hospitals, schools, kindergartens). The last problem is really nagging problem for RF, because a huge numbers of fatal road accidents relate with the automobile-pedestrian accident. Decreasing of road accident with participation of commercial vehicles by means of electronic stability control that could help to avoid more than 20% of heavy and extra heavy road accidents. It is obvious that simultaneous and instant realization of all active and passive safety systems range on the Russian commercial vehicles is impossible, because of economical, juridical and social reasons. Nevertheless the future of RF automobile transport is inconceivable without using of intelligent systems and solving of the safety vehicle design problem. KEYWORDS intelligent systems, safety, commercial vehicles