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The presentation deals with the simulation tool rateEFFECT which intends to answer the following questions: Which active safety systems should be developed to maximize safety benefit in real traffic accidents? What is the effectiveness of a specific active safety system in the real world? How many casualties could be avoided by such a system? It is shown that a lot of information is required to simulate existing accidents in order to estimate ADAS effects. This particularly includes numerical values for the pre-crash and in-crash phase. The database GIDAS provides a required minimum number of these parameters for a statistically significant sample.
The sequence of accident events can be classified by three essential phases, the pre-crash-sequence, the crash-sequence and the post-crash-sequence. The level of reliability of the information in the GIDAS-database (German In Depth Accident Study) is provided predominantly on the passive side. The period to evaluate active safety systems begins already in the pre-crash-sequence. The assessment of the potential of sensor- or communication-based active safety systems can only be accomplished by a detailed analysis of the pre-crash-phase. Hence the necessity to analyze the early period of the accident event in detail arises. This is possible with the help of the digital sketches of the accident site and the simulation of the accident by a simulation method of the VUFO GmbH. After simulating the pre-crash scenario it is possible to generate additional and standardized data to describe the pre-crash-sequences of an accident in a very high detail. These data are documented in a second database called the GIDAS Pre-Crash-Matrix (PCM). The PCM contains various tables with all relevant data to reproduce the pre-crash-sequence of traffic accidents from the GIDAS database until 5 seconds before the first collision. This includes parameters to describe the environment data, participant data and motion or dynamic data. This paper explains the creation of the PCM, the simulation itself and the contents and structure of the PCM. With this information of the pre-crash-sequence for various accident scenarios an improved benefit estimation and development of active safety systems can be made possible.
Motorcycle safety research
(2007)
Honda- global motorcycle sales exceeded the 10 million units mark since 2004, and further expansion is expected. As a responsibility for a company to provide mobility, Honda is focusing on motorcycle safety as top priority and has been working on various activities for both aspects of hardware and software. Here, we present Honda- activity for the safety technology of motorcycles. At present, Honda is promoting motorcycle safety in the four themes of prevention and collision safety such as safety education, recognition assistance, accident prevention and injury reduction. First, in the area of the safety education, the "Honda Safety Driving Promotion Center" was established in 1970, and motorcycle riders and vehicle driver trainings have been organized, and the traffic training centers are used as an actual practice field not only in Japan but also in many other regions in the world. Through our training activities, the new area of safety training with hardware assistance was developed and Honda- unique technology was accumulated such as the riding simulator which can provide experience of potentially dangerous situations without risk. Especially, the "riding trainer", the popular version of the riding simulator, was introduced at several motor shows in various countries and launched in September 2005. It was distributed first in Europe and is expected to expand globally aiming at 3000 units worldwide.. And in Europe, the newest version, which includes the suburban roads program, jointly developed with ADAC, will be released in near future. In the area of recognition assistance, "vehicle to vehicle communication technology" is under development using the advantage of being a manufacturer of both motorcycles and cars. This technology is under research as Honda "ASV-3" in Japan, and as part of C2C activity in Europe. As for the accident prevention, advanced brake systems for motorcycles to assist more effective brake operation have been expanded, Honda signed the European Road Safety Charter in April 2004 with the advanced brake systems commitment and furthermore, they are expanding according to vehicle characteristics and region. Then all models above 250 cc will have a version of the system by 2010. And as the last theme, "motorcycle airbag system" is introduced which is equipped on a mass production motorcycle for the first time in the world. It has been researched and developed for a long time as an injury reduction technology for collision accidents. Honda automobile technology was used for the research and development of the motorcycle airbag, and many specific issues such as the analysis of the collision conditions particular to motorcycles have been solved to realize today- success. It might be known that ADAC in-house crash test held in August this year confirmed the high effectiveness of the airbag system and showed a positive result. This motorcycle airbag system is equipped to the Honda Gold Wing and launched in North America in August, 2006. Also in Europe, it will be sold by the end of this year. Each theme of Honda motorcycle safety technology can be seen at the Honda booth.
In road traffic accidents, a car-seat and its occupant can be subjected to various crash pulses in the case of a rear impact. This study investigates the influence of crash pulse shape on seat-occupant response and evaluates the corresponding risk of whiplash injury. For this purpose, a rigorously validated seat-occupant system model is used to study different carseat designs and crash pulses. Two different car-seat concepts are also presented which can effectively mitigate whiplash injury for a wide range of crash severity. It is shown that for crash pulses of similar severity, the level of whiplash-risk depends strongly on the combined effects of seat design and crash pulse shape.
Eine moderne Verkehrsinfrastruktur ist die Voraussetzung für Mobilität und wirtschaftliches Wachstum. Um in Zeiten der Globalisierung den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland zu sichern und auszubauen, gilt es, flexibel auf die sich rasant ändernden Rahmenbedingungen zu reagieren. Verkehr erzeugt jedoch Lärm, den die Bevölkerung mit steigender Sensibilität wahrnimmt. Leistung, Produktivität und Lebensqualität sind durch Lärm stark beeinträchtigt. Etwa 60 % der Bevölkerung in Deutschland fühlen sich durch den Straßenverkehrslärm belästigt. Die Auswirkungen des Lärms von der Beeinträchtigung der Konzentration und Kommunikation bis hin zur möglichen Schädigung der Gesundheit sind durch umfassende Studien des Umweltbundesamtes (UBA) belegt. Im Dezember 2009 wurde nach vier Jahren Forschungsarbeit das durch das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) geförderte Forschungsprojekt "Leiser Straßenverkehr 2" erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Insgesamt elf Partner aus Industrie und Forschung haben gemeinsam Lösungen erarbeitet, wie der Straßenverkehrslärm dauerhaft reduziert werden kann. Die Projektkosten wurden auf ca. 4,5 Mio. EUR veranschlagt und werden jeweils zu 50 % vom BMWi und den Forschungspartnern getragen. Der Bau der Erprobungsstrecken wird aus Baumitteln finanziert. Auf diese Weise unterstützt das Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (BMVBS) das Projekt "Leiser Straßenverkehr 2". Einen Schwerpunkt des Projektes stellte die Entwicklung eines leiseren Lkw-Reifens für die Antriebsachse dar. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Projektpartner Continental AG konnte im Frühjahr 2009 ein geräuschreduzierter Lkw-Reifen auf dem Markt eingeführt werden, der gegenüber dem Vorgängerprodukt um ca. 3,5 dB(A) leiser ist. Die Firma Continental AG plant, dieses neue leisere Reifenprofil auf andere Reifendimensionen zu übertragen. Darüber hinaus wurde von der Technischen Universität Hamburg-Harburg, der Leibniz Universität Hannover und der Firma Continental AG ein Berechnungsmodell zur detaillierten Simulation eines rollenden Reifens auf einer Fahrbahn, der daraus resultierenden Reifenschwingungen und der damit verbundenen Geräusche entwickelt. Erstmals steht ein derartiges Instrument für die Reifenoptimierung zur Verfügung. Eine weitere Schallreduktion wurde im Projekt angestrebt, indem die akustische Lebensdauer von offenporigen Asphalten durch Vermeidung der Verschmutzung verlängert wird. Um dies zu erreichen, wurde ein modifiziertes Bitumen entwickelt, mit dem die Schmutzanhaftung an den Hohlraumwandungen offenporiger Asphalte minimiert werden kann. Im Rahmen der Erprobung auf der Bundesautobahn A 24 bei Berlin wird derzeit geprüft, wie sich dieser modifizierte offenporige Asphalt in der Straßenbaupraxis bewährt. Darüber hinaus wurden von der Firma Müller BBM Resonatoren entwickelt, die in die offenporige Deckschicht integriert werden und aufgrund ihrer speziellen Frequenzabstimmung ein breiteres Frequenzband zur Schallreduzierung abdecken sollen. Im Juli 2009 erfolgte in einem Testabschnitt auf der Erprobungsstrecke A 24 die bautechnische Umsetzung der Ergebnisse in die Praxis. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt im Projekt war die akustische Optimierung von Lamellen-Fahrbahnübergängen für lange Brücken. Umfangreiche Untersuchungen wurden dabei im Prüfstand Fahrzeug/Fahrbahn der BASt durchgeführt. Im Juli 2009 wurden die neuen lärmarmen Oberflächen auf einem Fahrbahnübergang auf der A 10 bei Phoeben/Havelbrücke eingebaut und zeigten im Vergleich zum Lamellen-Fahrbahnübergang ohne Rautenelemente eine lärmreduzierende Wirkung von ca. 5 dB(A). Insgesamt zeigen die Forschungsergebnisse Entwicklungspotenziale zur weiteren Schallreduktion auf. Ein zentrales Ziel weiterführender Forschungskonzepte wird es sein, neuartige lärmarme Fahrbahnbeläge zu entwickeln und technische Lösungen für die Anwendung in der Straßenbaupraxis zu finden. Darüber hinaus sollen die Simulationsmodelle erweitert und optimiert werden, damit unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Einflüsse aus Reifen und Fahrbahn Geräuschprognosen schnell und zuverlässig möglich sind.
The need of passive safety devices, able to reduce the accidents and the severity of injuries suffered by motorcyclist, distinctly arises from data on accident statistics. In this paper, the effectiveness of an airbag device fitted in the biker- garments has been verified through various numerical simulations. Two simple test conditions were defined, in order to investigate the performance of the device both for back and front impacts, and simulated at various impact speeds. With the aim of providing more information about the actual capability of the airbag to reduce the severity of the injuries, one of accident scenario described by ISO 13232:2005 has been also investigated, checking the real effectiveness of the airbag strap-based firing system too. Confrontation of injury indexes resulting from simulation with and without airbag made possible a realistic evaluation of the harm reduction induced by the airbag presence.
Impact severity is a fundamental measure for all in-depth crash investigation projects. One methodology used in the UK is based on the US Calspan software package CRASH3. The UK- in-depth crash investigation studies routinely use AiDamage3 a software package which is based on an updated version of the original CRASH3 algorithm, including enhancements to the vehicle stiffness coefficients. Real world accident-damaged vehicles are measured and their crush is correlated with a library of stiffness coefficients. These measurements are then used, along with other parameters, to calculate the crash energy and equivalent changes of velocity of the vehicles (delta-v), which is a measure of the impact severity. UK in-depth accident studies routinely validate the crash severity methodologies applied as the vehicle fleet changes. This is achieved by analysing crash test data and using the appropriate residual crush damage and other inputs to AiDamage3 and checking the program- outputs with the known crash severity parameters. This procedure checks, at least in part, the default stiffness values in the data libraries and the reconstruction methods used.
The focus of the technical innovation in the automobile industry is currently changing to sensor based safety systems, which are operating in the pre-crash phase of an accident. To get more information about this pre-crash phase for real accidents a simulation of this phase using the GIDAS database is done. The basics for this simulation are geometrical information about the accident location and the exact accident data out of the GIDAS database. This aggregated information gives the possibility to simulate an exact motion for every accident participant, using MATLAB / SIMULINK, in the pre-crash phase. After the simulation the information about the geometrical positions, the velocities and maneuvers of the drivers to an individual TTC (time to collision) are available. With those results it is possible to develop new useful sensor geometries using pre-crash scatter plots or estimate the efficiency of implemented active safety systems in combination with sensor characteristics. This simulation can be done for every reconstructed accident included in the GIDAS database, so these results can represent a wide spread basis for the further development of active safety systems and sensor geometries and characteristics
This study is aimed to investigate the correlations of impact conditions and dynamic responses with the injuries and injury severity of child pedestrians by accident reconstruction. For this purpose, the pedestrian accident cases were selected from Sweden and Germany with detailed information about injuries, accident cars, and accident environment. The selected accident cases were reconstructed using mathematical models of pedestrian and passenger car. The pedestrian models were generated based on the height, weight, and age of the pedestrian involved in accidents. The car models were built up based on the corresponding accident car. The impact speeds in simulations were defined based on the reported data. The calculated physical quantities were analyzed to find the correlation with injury outcomes registered in the accident database. The reconstruction approaches are discussed in terms of data collection, estimating vehicle impact speeds, pedestrian moving speeds and initial posture, secondary ground impact, validity of the mathematical models, as well as impact biomechanics.
In recent years the boundaries between active and passive safety blurred more and more. Passive safety in the traditional term includes all safety aspects to prevent occupants to be injured or at least injury severity should be reduced. Passive Safety starts with the collision (first vehicle contact) and ends with rescue (open vehicle doors). Within this phase the occupant has to be protected by the passenger compartment whereby no intrusion should occur. Active safety on the other side was developed to interact prior to the collision whereby the goal is to prevent accidents. The extensive interaction between active and passive safety led to the terminologies "Primary" and "Secondary" safety whereas the expression Integrated Safety Concept was generated. Within this study the most well documented single vehicle accidents with cars not equipped with ESP were identified from the PENDANT database and reconstructed. Additional cases were found in the database ZEDATU of TU Graz. In comparison each case was simulated with the assumption that the cars were equipped with ESP. The differences regarding accident avoidance or crash severity as well as reduction of injury risk were analysed.