Develop and Disseminate Tools to Raise Awareness of Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) and its Potential to Reduce Risk and Liability Exposure.
Study Developed a Return On Investment Calculator Tool to Estimate Installation Cost and Recommendations for AEB for a Truck Fleet.
Date Posted
02/26/2025
Nationwide, United States
Nationwide,
United States
Identifier
2025-L01251
Research and Testing to Accelerate Voluntary Adoption of Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) on Commercial Vehicles
Summary Information
Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is a vehicle safety technology that engages braking in response to input from radar or other speed sensors. This study outlined barriers to voluntary adoption of AEB for truck fleets, and actions that may mitigate or eliminate these barriers. To quantify the extent of financial barriers, the research team developed a tool to help fleets calculate the Return On Investment (ROI) on advanced safety technologies like AEB. The customizable ROI calculator allows fleets to enter information about their own operations or use national averages.
- Develop and disseminate tools to raise awareness of AEB’s potential to reduce risk and liability exposure. This study recommendedreaching out to the industry to inform fleets regarding the potential liability risks associated with removing standard safety technology from new truck purchases.
- Develop and disseminate tools to assist fleets in calculating the ROI for AEB. This would help fleets model how AEB could reduce their exposure to crash and liability risks and help them quantify the benefits of AEB for potential adoption decisions.
- Support the development of standards for fleet training and fleet AEB data use. This would improve safety and reduce fleet costs for data monitoring and training.
- Identify medium-duty vehicles with higher exposure to collisions that AEB may help address. This study mentioned that in medium-duty vehicles, the cost of technologies such as anti-lock brakes and stability control was a major barrier to AEB adoption, and the ROI on these technologies would improve with higher exposure.
- Explore the best practices to motivate manufacturers to make AEB standard for certain medium-duty truck/body combinations. This would increase voluntary adoption of AEB in medium-duty vehicles.
Research and Testing to Accelerate Voluntary Adoption of Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) on Commercial Vehicles
Research and Testing to Accelerate Voluntary Adoption of Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) on Commercial Vehicles
Source Publication Date
05/01/2020
Publisher
Prepared by Virginia Tech Transportation Institute for USDOT Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Other Reference Number
FMCSA-RRT-18-013
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Vehicle Safety »
Autonomous Vehicle Safety Systems (VS01)
