TY  - CONF
A1  - Dias, João M.P.
A1  - Bernardo, Daniel
T1  - Injury analysis and reconstruction of Powered Two Wheelers accidents
N2  - The number of road accidents in Portugal has decreased significantly in the last decades, however, this tendency is not similar in all types of transportation. In the most recent years and by European standards, Portugal is still one of the leading countries concerning the number of fatalities in Powered Two Wheelers (PTW) accidents. To this effect, the in-depth investigation of PTW accidents is crucial and so, a thorough statistical analysis concerning the main factors influencing PTW riders injury severity accidents was undertaken regarding the 2007-2010 period in the National Road Safety Authority (ANSR) injured riders database using the software SPSS. In addition, to determine the importance of absent factors in the database analysis, such as velocity, a set of 53 real accidents involving PTW were also investigated and computationally reconstructed using the software PC-Crash. Lateral collisions between a motorcycle, its rider and the side of three different passenger cars were also simulated, varying the motorcycle impact angle and velocity in order to estimate the PTW deformation energy and the rider- injuries, as this accident configuration stands out in terms of frequency and even severity. The results of this detailed study are presented.
KW  - Analyse (Math)
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Konferenz
KW  - Motorrad
KW  - Motorradfahrer
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Schweregrad (Unfall
KW  - Verletzung)
KW  - Simulation
KW  - Unfallrekonstruktion
KW  - Verletzung
KW  - Analysis (math)
KW  - Conference
KW  - Germany
KW  - Injury
KW  - Motorcycle
KW  - Motorcyclist
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Reconstruction (accid)
KW  - Severity (accid
KW  - injury)
KW  - Simulation
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/645
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-6454
N1  - Weiterhin beteiligt: Technical Superior Institute, Technical University of Lisbon
ER  -