Transport for London (TfL) is adding new mandatory ADAS (automatic driver assistance systems) to its buses, as part of a newly published Bus Safety Strategy.
The strategy, which outlines specific safety enhancing actions to be taken to achieve TFLs Vision Zero goals for the bus network, includes the use of more ADAS in its buses by 2024.
The buses are already fitted with intelligent speed assistance technology, responsive acoustic vehicle alerting systems (which allow famousely quiet zero-emission vehicles to make a sound that alerts other road users of their presence) and the urban bus sound, which helps to ensure all road users are aware of quiet buses.
The new plans aim to add advanced emergency braking and vulnerable road user alerting systems, and commitments to trial fatigue-detection technologies on up to 450 buses over a 12 to 18 month period.
They’ve also recently announced their new Bus Safety Innovation Challenge, which will include the commissioning of further research into reducing road danger risk.
The strategy is working towards the ambitious goal of ensuring no deaths are caused by bus collisions by 2030, or serious injuries caused by bus collisions by 2041.