i-DREAMS
- Project timeframe
- 1 May 2015 - 3 April 2022
- Research area
- Transport Safety
- Amount awarded
- 鈧�960,000
- Funder ID
- European Union Horizon 2020
Project leader: Dr Ashleigh Filtness
i-DREAMS is a project鈥痺hich aims to鈥痵et up a platform to define, develop, test and validate a 鈥楽afety Tolerance Zone鈥� to prevent drivers from getting too close to the boundaries of unsafe operation by mitigating risks in real-time and after the trip.
The acronym 'i-DREAMS' stands for a smart鈥疍river and鈥疪oad鈥疎nvironment鈥疉ssessment and鈥疢onitoring鈥疭ystem. The i-DREAMS consortium consists of鈥�13 partners, researchers as well as industry partners, from 8 different countries. Several factors of driver state negatively impact road safety, such as distraction (in-vehicle or external), fatigue and drowsiness, health concerns (e.g. illness, frailty, cognitive state) and extreme emotions (e.g. anxiety, stress, anger). Moreover, differences in socio-cultural factors are still among the main determinants of road risks. At the same time, technological developments make massive and detailed operator performance data easily available - for example, via new in-vehicle sensors that capture detailed driving style and contextual data. This creates new opportunities for the detection and design of customised interventions to mitigate the risks, increase awareness and upgrade driver performance, constantly and dynamically. The optimal exploitation of these opportunities is the main challenge that i-DREAMS faces.