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SAFE INLETThe device for road security

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L’inserimento contromanoPreliminary considerations

• Millions of people of different culture, age, gender, every day get in their car and drive for several kilometers to reach their destinations• Becoming a habit, driving is not anymore an action that according to people requires any daily particular mental concentration• Driving is a habit for elderly people and people with a difficult physiological condition as well• Inappropriate signs become almost non-existent in case of foggy weather conditions.

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Troppe distrazioni

Not only cell phones…

Too many distractions

• Mobile phones, radio, GPS devices, cigarettes, newspapers and even laptops

• Too many elements influence our concentrations at driving

•Distraction on the road is nowadays considered normal, as it is human and impossible to foreseen...

• … but some distractions may have tragic consequences

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L’inserimento contromanoWhat happens if, for a small distraction, a driver takes the highway in the wrong direction?

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L’inserimento contromanoWrong-way accidents

• Travelling on the wrong side of a road is a a very serious phenomenon and not that uncommon as we may believe.

• Wrong way accidents are in continuos growth and cause each year a remarkable number of fatalities on the roads and highways.

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L’inserimento contromanoA global phenomenon

In Germany each year, around 1,700 incidents of wrong-way drivers are reported in traffic information broadcasts(SourceUNICE_http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2012/wp1/NatDev-2012_road-safety-programme-2011.pdf)

Wrong-way accidents are the cause of about 350 fatalities each year throughout the United States(Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

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The social costs

Italy spends from 24 up to 31 billion Euro each year, amount to around 1,5 - 2 percentage points of GDP

This number is obtained by cross-referencing the data from Ania, Ministry of Transport, Irpet e ACI

The total is the sum of the loss of productivity costs, psychological damages, financial losses, administrative costs and basic health care costs (treatment costs at the hospital).

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I costi sociali

Which action has been taken to avoid these fatalities?

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L’inserimento contromanoAwareness Campaigns

• In the past years several information campaigns have been carried out . The sigs in highway and freeways have been increased

• In some cases in USA several kind of vertical and horizontal signalization has been added to the existing one

• This doesn’t look like being enough as the trend is not changing. The problem is that the signs have no power against a distracted driver or a psychological altered mind.

• But this is not enough..

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L’inserimento contromanoLight signals

• In the efforts to find innovative solutions, some kind of photo – electric devices have been realized and introduced in some

countries • However, signs have no power against a distracted driver or a psychological altered mind.• “This measure is ineffective“ says Gianantonio Scramuzza, researcher at

UPI(Swiss injury prevention office- www.upi.ch). • Several studies have shown that such electronic devices are totally

ineffective against wrong interpretations. (Source: ASAPS www.asaps.it)

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L’inserimento contromanoRadar detection system

• Now tested in Switzerland.• The system, as for the system with surveillance cameras,

sends out a signal of a situation which is already happening.• This method is only working on the effect and it is not

actively preventive

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The idea:

SAFE INLET

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L’inserimento contromanoSAFE INLET: what it is

Safe- Inlet is a patented device which actively will alert driver and occupants of the vehicle travelling in the wrong way

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L’inserimento contromanoWhere is installed

SAFE INLET is installed on the road surface at the end and across all the exit lanes of each highway and parking area; it is not perceived at all by vehicles travelling in the correct way

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If it is traversed by a vehicle travelling in the correct way, the system has a neutral behavior, it doesn’t represent a bump for the vehicle and it is not perceived at all by the driver and the other occupants.

In case of wrong entering, the system act as a bump giving a shock to the vehicle which will alert all its occupants as an unmistakable signal telling that they are doing something wrong.

A simple mechanism

ENTERING IN THE CORRECT WAY

ENTERING IN THE WRONG WAY

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L’inserimento contromanoPatents

• At the moment the system has got 2 patents: one is in a PCT phase patent ant the other is in the Italian national phase. The Patenting phase is a work in progress.

• PCT International application number: WO2014/135476 A1

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L’inserimento contromanoResearch and Development

• The project has been shown and analyzed by an important Italian University, which confirmed its feasibility.

• The first prototype have been built and tested on the road• Now the next step is the realization of the executive project of the two

patents.

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The potential

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GERMANY 4.534

ITALY 2.056

FRANCE 3.154

BELGIUM 928

• The numbers are based on the analysis of the highway networks (rounded down number of highway entrance/exit lanes) for the countries chosen• This is taking only in considerations the highways and not every other possible application which might be helpful (roundabouts, one-ways in urban center main roads…)•Therefore we assume that the number of possible installations could be much higherNETHERLANDS 1828

TOTAL 12.500 INSTALLATIONS

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L’inserimento contromanoBusiness Plan

• In the current phase of the project the materials and processes needed to manufacture the product are not yet determined , therefore the total costs can not be calculated with precision .

• We have put in place a well-grounded Businnes Plan, together with the Economic and Financial prospect, based on the experience in the construction of the first prototypes.

• We refer to the consultation of B.P. the economic and profit considerations.

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L’inserimento contromanoScenery 1

DoneWork in progressTarget

Legend

Patent Sale Royalties

Research and Development

Idea and

Patent

process

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L’inserimento contromanoScenery 2

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L’inserimento contromanoEndorsements• Several private companies have shown interest for the project, but for confidentiality reasons we don’t reveal their names.• Volvo AB, we received a remarkable endorsement by the Safety Director of Volvo AB Global Peter Kronberg.•Fondazione Ania , has showed appreciation of the project through Dott. Vedovi, expert of road security and risk management.• Il Centauro, the official magazine of ASAPS association, has recently published an article : http://www.asaps.it/49237-_contromano__la_soluzione_oggi_esiste_e_si_chiama_safe_inlet_efficace_semplice_e.html•AIPCR (world road association), has published and commented our article about Safe Inlet : http://www.aipcr.it/web/cultura/tecnologie-stradali/item/593-tecnologie-mai-piu-contromano•Motori online, online magazine linket to QN (Il Giorno,La Nazione, il Resto del Carlino),has written an article about our device: http://www.motorionline.com/2015/02/13/safe-inlet-una-soluzione-per-impedire-di-viaggiare-contromano/

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We strongly believe in this project and its wide spread as it will represent a considerable and rather economical help to drastically decrease the numbers of accidents which are at the moment out of control.

We have some way to go. However the huge number of endorsements and positive comments received during the last few months have strengthened our enthusiasm for the future development of the project.

To summarize

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L’inserimento contromanoConclusioni

Questions and conclusions