Influence of Vehicle Active Safety Technologies on Roadway Departures (NCHRP 22-68)
Sponsor: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP 22-68) · Prime: Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) · Period: awarded 2026 (36-month subcontract)
Evaluating the Influence of Vehicle Active Safety Technologies on Roadway Departures.
Roadway departures are among the most severe crash types. The project asks which roadway departure crashes today’s vehicle active safety technologies are, and are not, preventing, to inform both vehicle and roadway countermeasures.
My contributions
- UMTRI lead on the subcontract.
- Co-lead the data analysis plan and its execution.
- The analysis centers on “crashes not prevented”, combining GM Safety Content, naturalistic driving data, and national crash databases.
Efe Yarbasi is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Engineering Systems Group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). His research covers the safety of automated and driver-assistance systems and the electrification of transportation. He serves as principal investigator and co-principal investigator on projects sponsored by NHTSA, Toyota Motor North America, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. He co-leads the Low Altitude Airspace Working Group at M-Air.
He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. There he worked in the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory under Prof. Dimitri Mavris and developed methods to find and reduce the uncertainties that matter most in complex, multi-disciplinary designs. He is a member of AIAA and IEEE.
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