Conference advocates merging passive and active safety

Creation date: 19 June 2006

The Commission-funded Advanced Passive Safety Network (ASPN) and the Integrated Project on Advanced Protection Systems (APROSYS) organised a conference on passive safety in Vienna on 12 May.

APROSYS is part of the Integrated Safety Programme, in which major Commission-funded projects such as GST, PReVENT and AIDE are active members.

The Vienna event featured a special session on integrated safety systems and a discussion panel chaired by Fabrizio Minarini explored how active and passive safety could be merged to a greater extent. In particular, Mr Minarini advocated the need to devise a testing programme combining active and passive safety, and announced the European Commission’s intention to launch a call for the development of such a system in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research.

For more information, contact the PReVENT Project Manager Maxime Flament.