eCall
Description
The emergency-call gives precise coordinates of the location of an accident to the emergency services which are responsible for the help. The service is a multi-stakeholder function of public organisations, telecom companies and service providers and car manufacturers.
Impacts
The systems should lead to a higher efficiency of the rescue chain reducing the consequences of the accidents and their severity. The system is estimated to reduce the number of road fatalities by 2-15% and the number of severely injured by 3-15%.
Studies
| The eCall system could very probably have prevented 4.7% of the fatalities in accidents involving motor vehicle occupants. In the accidents involving a fatally injured unprotected road user, however, the system could probably have prevented no fatality. In all, the eCall system was estimated to be able to reduce 4-8% of road fatalities in Finland. |
The results are based on Finnish accident data collected by in-depth accident investigation teams. The data was analysed by medical experts having long experience of treating accident trauma. |
Virtanen N. |
2005 |
Automaattisen hätäviestijärjestelmän vaikutukset onnettomuustilanteessa (Impacts of an automatic emergency call system on accident consequences). AINO publications 14/2005. |
| From 5 to 10% of road fatalities would be changed to severe injuries in EU. In addition, 10 to 15% of severe injuries would be changed to slight injuries. |
The study is based on official European accident statistics, traffic analyses, available market reports, and other sources. Effectiveness estimates were based on results from surveys of the E-MERGE project. |
Abele, J., Kerlen, C., Krueger, S., Baum, H., Geißler, T., Grawenhoff, S., Schneider, J. & Schulz, W.H. |
2004 |
Exploratory Study on the potential socio-economic impact of the introduction of Intelligent Safety Systems in Road Vehicles. SEiSS. VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH and Institute for Transport Economics at the University of Cologne. |
| The foreseen live savings are estimated on an average between 5-10% which means 2000 to 4000 lives given the current number of fatalities of approx. 40000 and the reduction of the severity of injuries is estimated at the same number 5-10%. |
The results are based on a questionnaire targeted to public safety answering point operators in E-MERGE test sites. |
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young |
2004 |
E-MERGE Compiled evaluation results. Deliverable 6.3 |
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