OASIM Project

With 43% of fatalities among their road users, the South-East Asian countries have the higher rate of death among riders of motorized 2- and 3-wheelers (according to the Global Status report on Road Safety 2018). The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an intergovernmental organization, represents ten countries : Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

With pedestrians and cyclists, motorcyclists are considered as Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) as they respectively account for 26% and 28% of all deaths in the world. Looking at the ASEAN countries situations, their proportion goes up to 59% of the deaths on the road. Since 2011, the ASEAN New Car Assessment Program (ASEAN NCAP) aims to elevate vehicle’s safety standards. ASEAN NCAP places high importance on motorcyclist safety and claim to become the most challenging protocol of a kind. Thus, the Motorcyclist Safety Pillar was specifically created in the 2021-2025 Roadmap, to urge the automotive industry to reduce motorcyclists road traffic deaths through new technologies.

What are the main accident situation between motorcycles and cars? Which systems will be the best to improve motorcyclist safety? How to evaluate these designed systems? Which tools can be developed for this?

Coordinated by UTAC, the OASIM project aims to answer these issues. The industrial consortium will provide OEMs and TIERs1 with the tools that will enable them to develop and evaluate their systems. The first task consists in studying the main accident situation between motorcycles and cars. Then, possible systems that could help to avoid them, or at least, reduce their consequences, will be identified. Finally, tools to improve these systems and evaluate their performance will be developed.

The project is split into 5 Work Packages described bellow.