TY - CONF A1 - Mönnich, Jörg A1 - Lich, Thomas A1 - Georgi, Andreas A1 - Kumaresh, Girikumar T1 - How to evaluate the accident situation in India? N2 - The increasing economics in India has an enormous growth of its road traffic. As observed from official Indian accident statistics the number of road fatalities are one of the highest worldwide. In contrast to most industrialized nations they have an rapidly increasing trend. To come along with this trend it becomes more than essential to understand the traffic accident situation. The official Indian accident statistics gives a glimpse of only basic information. Therefore more detailed data is needed. By using In-depth accident data and officially representative statistics the current accident situation can be evaluated in India, if a suitable weighting methodology is considered. Hence in 2009/2010 a pilot study with the collaboration partner JP-Research India pvt. Ldt. was gathered in Tamil Nadu in south of India. In-depth accident investigations were done around the Coimbatore area on four highways. At first, the collected data is evaluated. Due to consequent and continuous further development based on the first approach a methodology similar to NASS/CDS/GES in the US and GIDAS in Germany was developed. Of course all relevant accident related parameters including pictures and severity information were collected. As a matter of fact based on scaled sketches and reconstruction benefit analyses can be done in order to analyze the accident scenery in India. As a first outcome influence from infrastructure, missing education and vehicle safety were identified as key parameters in order to reduce the number of accidents and casualties. To compare the accident situation against international standards an accident classification for left hand traffic was developed based on the German Insurance classification system. Looking into detail additional accident types were identified and added to create an Indian accident type catalogue. The positive results encouraged several OEMs to participate in this investigation and together with BOSCH a consortium was established in 2010/11. Within one year from beginning in May 2011 about 200 highway accidents were collected, reported and reconstructed using the new standard. Hence a first good overview of the accident situation is available for the Coimbatore Tamil Nadu area. The major target for establishing accident investigations is the extension towards other states of India and urban areas to achieve a better overview of the accident scenery. Therefore local and national authorities have to be embedded in order to strengthen the awareness against traffic safety. KW - Datenbank KW - Deutschland KW - Indien KW - Konferenz KW - Schweregrad (Unfall KW - Verletzung) KW - Statistik KW - Unfall KW - Unfallrekonstruktion KW - Untersuchung am Unfallort KW - Accident KW - Conference KW - Database KW - Germany KW - India KW - On the spot accident investigation KW - Reconstruction (accid) KW - Severity (accid KW - injury) KW - Statistics Y1 - 2013 UR - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/654 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-6542 N1 - Weiterhin beteiligt: Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solution Limited ER -