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Road Safety Hotspots

As a safety and driver assistance innovation leader, Mercedes-Benz lives its “Vision 0”. Using data from ADAS sensors in the customer fleet, we identify and analyze critical safety hotspots in the road network.

Be one-step ahead of accidents and turn from reactive to proactive planning

Cities worldwide are striving for Vision Zero to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. Still, too many people are killed or seriously injured in traffic. Cities have bold targets and we want to be part of the solution.

For Mercedes‑Benz, as an innovation leader in the field of safety and driver assistance systems, the 'Vision of accident-free driving' is part of the company's DNA. Mercedes‑Benz has been a pioneer in safety and assistance systems for decades and our vehicles have a multitude of sensors and assistance systems that make roads safer. We are going one step further to leverage the data from the Mercedes‑Benz assistance systems to identify, analyze and display critical safety hotspots in your street network helping you to take the right actions. Based on high quality data from our ADAS sensors in the customer fleet, we generate a risk model that indicates safety critical situations and near-misses in traffic.

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Data Points

What data and features does this product offer?

  • Type of object

  • GPS Position

  • Driving Direction

  • Distribution over Weekdays

  • Distribution over Daytime

  • Distribution over estimated time to collision

  • Event intensity

  • Risk Score

  • Object position in GeoJSON format

  • Road type

  • Near infrastructure

  • Total number of events

  • Number of passing vehicles

  • Speed reduction

Benefits

Your advantages at a glance

High-quality data insights from Mercedes‑Benz ADAS systems

Our data product identifies, displays and analyzes critical safety hotspots in your street network helping to take the right actions.

  • Create transparency

    Get a detailed overview of the riskiest road safety hotspots in your region. For making the right decisions.

  • From data to insights

    Compare detailed current information (e.g. hazard description, pedestrians or cyclists involved, accumulations) with historical accidents.

  • Near-accidents included

    Gain unique insights into near misses that are not captured with conventional data. This means that future accidents can be avoided before they happen.

  • Valid performance measurement

    Identify and measure the success of your efforts to improve road safety and quality using the latest data.

  • Open technology

    Integrate different Mercedes‑Benz Data products into your system using plug-in technology - even beyond road safety.

  • Simplified budget allocation

    Prioritize the most urgent safety measures and benefit from a more efficient use of public safety budgets.

  • Reports and analysis

    Benefit from historical analyses, quarterly road safety reports and detailed analyses of your regional hazard hotspots.

How it works

Functions and features of the Road Safety Product

1. Data Collection

Mercedes‑Benz vehicles are equipped with a high range of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) which support the driver and make the streets safer. Whenever an incident is detected by our vehicle assistance systems a full report describing the situation is send to our backend.

View road events in your region on your digital dashboard. Both at a glance and with detailed information on each event.
View road events in your region on your digital dashboard. Both at a glance and with detailed information on each event.

2. Analysis

Our Mercedes‑Benz Road Safety Algorithm uses the swarm intelligence of the fleet and detects safety relevant hotspots by searching for signals of the same type accumulating at the same GPS position.

Filter e.g. by species risk score, intensity and much more.
Filter e.g. by species risk score, intensity and much more.

3. Risk Model

The detected hotspots are evaluated based on a risk model taking various metrics (e.g. intensity of intervention, duration of warning, infrastructure characteristics etc.) and additional data sources (e.g. historical crash data) into consideration.

Display additional useful statistics.
Display additional useful statistics.

4. True guidance & measurement of mitigations

Identify and display critical safety hotspots in your city where mitigation measures are required before a crash has happened to be one-step ahead. Being able to track mitigations over time by seeing data and incidents decreasing after implementation.

View road events in your region on your digital dashboard. Both at a glance and with detailed information on each event.
View road events in your region on your digital dashboard. Both at a glance and with detailed information on each event.
Filter e.g. by species risk score, intensity and much more.
Filter e.g. by species risk score, intensity and much more.
Display additional useful statistics.
Display additional useful statistics.
Success story

United in “Vision Zero”: collaboration for safer London streets

Transport for London collaborates on the "Vision Zero" initiative, leveraging Mercedes‑Benz vehicle data to decrease traffic incidents and enhance safety for both residents and visitors in London.

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