Increasing cycling safety by an adaptively triggered road instrumented warning element in EU project XCYCLE

In urban traffic, cyclists are often exposed to high risks especially when being in interaction with motorized traffic participants. Objectives of EU funded project XCYCLE (http://www.xcycle-h2020.eu) are to improve and increase cyclists’ safety. Focusing on urban traffic, the project addresses the use case of an intersection with right turning motorized traffic (especially HGV’s) and privileged cyclists going straight on.
One of the main project activities lies in developing an infrastructural supported cooperative advanced driver assistance system (C-ADAS). Infrastructural detection and computations allow it to send situation and risk related information to the given road users (esp. the motorized traffic participant) using wireless communication standards like ITS-G5. As parts of the cooperative overall system equipped trucks and bicycles will also receive a warning. In this paper, the focus is on the concept, construction and triggering of a visual road instrumentation positively influencing gaze behavior of drivers of non-instrumented vehicles.