CASSICE: symbolic characterization of driving situation

This paper presents the French CASSICE project developed by five academic laboratories. The aim of this project is to develop a system enabling the acquisition of the driving information to be automated and to used as an aid for the ex-post analysis of road situations and driver behaviours. This project needs a tight collaboration between the psychologists an engineers. The system is based on the development of an experimental vehicle including a multi-sensors based electronic embedded system. Then, a time stamped database is built in order to provide a continuous detailed description of the various road situations encountered throughout the motorway journey and of drivers´ behaviour in relation to those situations