Integral vehicle safety combines active and passive safety systems. The main objectives are to prevent accidents and reduce the severity of accidents, as well as to further reduce the risk of injury by utilising the potential offered by system integration. To this end, new types of vehicle safety systems such as driver assistance systems (e.g. innovative brake assistants), pre-crash functions for restraint systems or adaptive safety systems, whose functions and effects adapt to the type and severity of the accident, are being developed.
There are no standardised and standardised procedures for evaluating the effectiveness of these new systems, which would make system design possible. The integration of the different systems requires a corresponding interdisciplinary consideration of driver, vehicle and environment and the development of multidisciplinary simulation methods and processes. Co-simulation is an essential tool for this interdisciplinary activity - different tools and models are combined in order to visualise the properties of the networked overall system.