aDrive is a first Polish national project that aims to develop integrated simulation environment comprising realistic traffic scenarios, vehicle driving automation ADA systems models, HMI /human‐machine interfaces/ communications and control links, and HIL /Human in the loop/ simulator testing capabilities for the evaluation of the PRE‐CRASH phase. It allows incorporating innovative ADAS algorithms, test their impact mitigation capabilities taking into account realistic human reactions and assess probability and conditions of near‐misses or in some cases impact scenarios. Such dynamic information includes initial and/or boundary conditions for occupant/pedestrian safety evaluation. Hypothetically vivid linkage between the complex pre‐crash phase and the impact instant should on one hand allow for a wider optimisation of passive safety systems that could be optimised and properly initiated in some cases already prior to impact by using specific information from sensors in ADA systems, and on the other hand it would serve as a realistic environment for injury recognition for personalised human models.

This paper outlines the proposed approach and results of the development of an integrated simulation environment and its first successful application on the basis of pedestrian impact case taking into account AEB and the potential of the effectiveness of the V2I system. Developed environment allows for ADAS effectiveness evaluation process and INTEGRATED Safety Approach links it directly to safety measures in case of impact. Pedestrian scenarios have been chosen due to the fact that statistically fatality and injury risk rate for pedestrians crossing the road is one of the highest scores in Europe [1‐2] and a lot of national Polish efforts is currently directed to changing the trend. Secondly pedestrian impact scenarios do not introduce any problems in splitting the phase of PRE and IMPACT and allows for easy single direction parameters transfer between both phases.