TY  - CONF
A1  - Mönnich, Jörg
A1  - Lich, Thomas
A1  - Georgi, Andreas
A1  - Reiter, Nora
T1  - Did a higher distribution of pedelecs results in more severe accidents in Germany
N2  - The study aimed at estimating the impact of pedelecs (with an assumed higher speed than bicycles) on the traffic accident severity in Germany for different penetration rates. The analysis shows that in many real situations (68%) an electrical support of bicycles has no influence on the sequence of accident events. Taking into account a number of unreported "single bicycle accidents", the adoption of similar traffic behavior and similar age distribution, the authors determined a shift of 400 former slightly to seriously injured cyclists in Germany per year. Overall this would be an increase of approximately 2.3% in case of 10% of pedelec penetration with the pessimistic assumption of 10 km/h speed increase although first natural driving studies predict a much lower average speed increase of pedelecs. The hypothesis verbalized in the initial question whether a higher distribution of pedelecs will result in more severe accidents in Germany is not verified. The study shows that electrical support didn"t result in higher collision speed in general. In many accident situations, the speed of pedelecs has only a minor influence on the accident severity. Further research focusing on a possible change of driver behavior especially in new target groups (elderly people) will be needed.
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Elektrofahrrad
KW  - Konferenz
KW  - Prognose
KW  - Schweregrad (Unfall
KW  - Verletzung)
KW  - Unfall
KW  - Accident
KW  - Conference
KW  - Electric bicycle
KW  - Estimation
KW  - Germany
KW  - Severity (accid
KW  - injury)
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1508
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-15081
ER  -