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Citation
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Kiuchi T, Shinohara A, Ishikawa H. 27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV); April 3-6, 2023; Abstract #: 23-0253, pp. 23p. Washington, DC USA: US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2023 open access. |
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Abstract
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27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years
https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000167.pdf
D-Call Net, which Japan was the first country in the world to implement for practical use, is an extremely unique advanced automatic collision notification system in which a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) with a doctor and a nurse on board is requested by a vehicle involved in a collision. Six years have passed since the start of a pilot operation and four years since the start of a commercial operation, and more than twenty cases have been reported in which D-Call Net has activated HEMS and transported drivers or passengers to trauma centers. Since 2018, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been supporting the international standardization activities of the injury estimation algorithm used in D-Call Net. Based on the newly established Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) D0889 [1], ISO standardization activities are continuing to develop the technical specification under ISO TC22/SC36/WG7. On the other hand, from FY2021, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism initiated the "D-Call Net In-Depth Accident Study" in which experts in emergency medicine and automotive engineering collaborate to establish an accident database for developing safer vehicles, replacing the previous "Medical Engineering Collaborative In-Depth Accident Study". Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis (ITARDA) has been in charge of both ISO standardization activities and the accident studies. This paper provides an executive summary of ITARDA's D-Call Net In-Depth Accident Study for FY2021. A total of twenty-one collisions were investigated during the study period, and several characteristic collisions were selected and detailed among them. The consideration of ΔV recorded by EDR, the time saving effect of D-Call Net and the evaluation of the algorithm according to the ISO technical specification are also discussed.
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