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Automotive interiors have long been a potentially injurious impact area to occupants during accidents, especially in the absence of adequate padding. The U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 201, Occupant Protection in Interior Impact, outlines test procedures and performance criteria in order to mitigate potentially injurious head impacts to interior surfaces. FMVSS 201 specifies a finite set of impact locations and applies to passenger vehicles of a specified year range and with a gross vehicle weight rating less than 10,000 lb. In this paper, two head impact test methodologies are presented, a pendulum-test device and a Free Motion Headform (FMH) launching device, which allows for dynamic, repeatable impact evaluation of various vehicle interior surfaces and their impact attenuation abilities. The presented testing includes multiple series that evaluate the effect of differing vehicle upper interior padding on occupant head injury. One study in particular, analyzes a head impact to the side header of a heavy truck (not included in FMVSS 201) during a 90 degree rollover. Additionally, two other series of tests are presented which assess the injury reduction effect of side airbags to near side as well as far side occupants in a side impact scenario. Lastly, a forensic analysis is presented which evaluates two possible head impact locations experienced in a real world accident by analysis of the resulting interior compartment damage utilizing the FMH launching device test method. The data collected and presented includes accelerometer instrumentation and high speed video analysis. These studies demonstrate that adequate padding and airbags are very effective at mitigating head injury potential at impact speeds of 12-25 mph (19-40 kph).
Assessment of the effectiveness of Intersection Assistance Systems at urban and rural accident sites
(2015)
An Intersection Collision Avoidance System is a promising safety system for accident avoidance or injury mitigation at junctions. However, there is still a lack of evidence of the effectiveness, due to the missing real accident data concerning Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. The objective of this study is the assessment of the effectiveness of an Intersection Collision Avoidance System based on real accidents. The method used is called virtual pre-crash simulation. Accidents at junctions were reconstructed by using the numerical simulation software PC-Crashâ„¢. This first simulation is called the baseline simulation. In a second step the vehicles of these accidents were equipped with an Intersection Collision Avoidance System and simulated again. The second simulation is called the system simulation. In the system simulation two different sensors and four different intervention strategies were used, based on a time-to-collision approach. The effectiveness of Intersection Collision Avoidance System has been evaluated by using an assessment function. On average 9% of the reviewed junction accidents could have been avoided within the system simulations. The other simulation results clearly showed a change in the principal direction of force, delta-v and reduction of the injury severity.
Over the past two decades the popularity of consumer crash test programs, commonly referred to as New Car Assessment Programs (NCAP), has grown across the world. They are popular among government regulators as they afford a means of promoting safety innovations and levels of vehicle performance beyond those dictated by national standards. They also fulfill the demand for information regarding the safety ranking of vehicles among consumers contemplating the purchase of a new vehicle. There is no question that consumer crash test programs greatly influence vehicle design changes as well as accelerate the fitment of new safety features. The extent to which these changes can be expected to reduce serious and potentially fatal injuries will be influenced by how well the testing protocols and associated rating schemes correctly reflect the nature of the residual safety problem they seek to address. Drawing on data contained primarily in the US National Automotive Sampling System (NASS), the field relevance of current and proposed testing and rating protocols addressing frontal crash test protection is examined. Emphasis is placed on examining how accurately injury rates computed from the dummy responses measured in consumer crash tests correspond to actual injury rates observed in the field. Additional data from Canadian field investigations and US databases such as the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (NMVCCS) are examined to see how well frontal airbag firing times, crush pulse durations and other determinants of injury are replicated in consumer testing protocols. This portion of the analysis draws on data obtained from Event Data Recorders (EDR) in both field collisions and staged tests of the same vehicle model. Vehicle rankings and overall frontal crash test ratings were found to be particularly sensitive to the choice of injury risk functions employed in the test. This was particularly true in the case of injury risk functions used to assess neck injury potential. Neck injury risk derived from Nij was found to show the least agreement with the field. Agreement between field chest injury rates and those derived from crash tests was improved considerably when chest injury risk functions for "older" occupants were employed. The paper concludes with a discussion of how different current testing protocols could be improved to enhance their field relevance.
The European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Committee wants to promote the use of more biofidelic child dummies and biomechanical based tolerance limits in regulatory and consumer testing. This study has investigated the feasibility and potential impact of Q-dummies and new injury criteria for child restraint system assessment in frontal impact. European accident statistics have been reviewed for all ECE-R44 CRS groups. For frontal impact, injury measures are recommended for the head, neck, chest and abdomen. Priority of body segment protection depends on the ECE-R44 group. The Q-dummy family is able to reflect these injuries, because of its biofidelity performance and measurement capabilities for these body segments. Currently, the Q0, Q1, Q1.5, Q3 and Q6 are available representing children of 0, 1, 1.5, 3 and 6 years old. These Q-dummies cover almost all dummy weight groups as defined in ECE-R44. Q10, representing a 10 year-old child, is under development. New child dummy injury criteria are under discussion in EEVC WG12. Therefore, the ECE-R44 criteria are assessed by comparing the existing P-dummies and new Q-dummies in ECE-R44 frontal impact sled tests. In total 300 tests covering 30 CRSs of almost all existing child seat categories are performed by 11 European organizations. From this benchmark study, it is concluded that the performance of the Q-dummy family is good with respect to repeatability of the measurement signals and the durability of the dummies. Applying ECE-R44 criteria, the first impression is that results for P- and Q-dummy are similar. For child seat evaluation the potential merits of the Q-dummy family lie in the extra measurement possibilities of these dummies and in the more biofidelic response.
In the last years there has been a decline in accident figures in Germany especially for four wheeled vehicles. At the same time, accident figures for motorcycles remained nearly constant. About 17 % of road traffic fatalities in the year 2006 were motorcyclists. 33 % of these riders were killed in single vehicle crashes. This leads to the conclusion that improving driving dynamics and driving stability of powered two wheelers would yield considerable safety gains. However, the well-known measures for cars and trucks with their proven effectiveness cannot be transferred easily to motorcycles. Therefore studies were carried out to examine the safety potential of Anti Lock Braking Systems (ABS) and Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) for motorcycles by means of accident analysis, driving tests and economical as well as technical assessment of the systems. With regard to ABS, test persons were assigned braking tasks (straight and in-curve) with five different brake systems with and without ABS. Stopping distances as well as stress and strain on the riders were measured for 9 test riders who completed 105 braking manoeuvres each. Knowing the ability of ABS to avoid falls during braking in advance of a crash and taking into account the system costs, a cost benefit analysis for ABS for motorcycles was carried out for different market penetration of ABS, i.e. equipment rates, and different time horizons. The potential of VSC for motorcycles was estimated in two steps. First the kinds of accidents that could be prevented by such a system at all have been analysed. For these accident configurations, simulations and driving tests were then performed to determine if a VSC was able to detect the critical driving situation and if it was technically possible to implement an actuator which would help to stabilise the critical situation.
Die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen hat das Fachgebiet Fahrzeugtechnik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt (fzd) damit beauftragt, die Bremsung des Motorradfahrers mit verschiedenen Kraftradbremssystemen zu untersuchen. Die Bremsung ist eines der am schwierigsten zu beherrschenden Motorradfahrmanöver. Dem Fahrer als Regler zweier unabhängig voneinander bedienbarer Bremskreise wird die Regelaufgabe zusätzlich erschwert durch die latente Sturzgefahr eines kreiselstabilisierten Einspurfahrzeugs. Hinzu kommen das ungünstige, die Gefahr eines Bremsüberschlags begünstigende Verhältnis von Schwerpunkthöhe zu Radstand und die meist hohen Bremskräfte bereits bei niedrigen Bedienkräften. Weitere fahrwerkabhängige Parameter wie die Lage des Nickpols beeinflussen den zeitlichen Ablauf der Radlastverschiebung während der für die Erzielung eines geringen Bremswegs besonders wichtigen Anfangsphase der Bremsung. Trotz dieser für den Fahrer als Regler ungünstigen Voraussetzungen hat sich am Grundkonzept der im größten Teil der Motorradpopulation verbauten Standardbremse mit getrennter Bedienung von Vorderrad- und Hinterradbremse seit Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts nichts geändert. Aufgabe der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit ist es, Anforderungen an Bremssysteme, mit denen der Motorradfahrer sichere Bremsungen mit kurzen Bremswegen reproduzierbar erreichen kann, zu formulieren. Dazu wurden Testpersonen Bremsaufgaben mit den fünf verschiedenen Bremssystemen Standard- und Kombibremse jeweils mit und ohne ABS sowie blockiergeschützte Kombibremse mit Einhebel-Bedienung gestellt und die erzielten Bremswege sowie Belastungs- und Beanspruchungsgrößen des Fahrers aufgezeichnet. Die Versuche zeigen folgende Ergebnisse: Die erzielten Bremswege sind mit ABS kürzer als ohne, was vor allem auf die Unterschiede in der Anfangsphase einer Bremsung zurückgeführt werden kann. Die während dieser Anfangsphase verstreichende Zeit steigt bei Bremsungen ohne ABS überproportional mit der Ausgangsgeschwindigkeit. Dies gilt auch und vor allem für die Kurvenbremsung. Ein signifikanter Unterschied zwischen Standard- und Kombibremse konnte nicht festgestellt werden. Die Bedienung einer blockiergeschützten Kombinationsbremse mit nur einem Bremshebel zeigt keinerlei Nachteil gegenüber einer konventionellen Zweihebel-Bedienung. Bei Bremsungen ohne ABS stieg die als Beanspruchungsgröße herangezogene Herzschlagfrequenz deutlich stärker an als bei Bremsungen mit ABS. Auch der Muskeltonus des Flexor Digitorum Superficialis, eine Belastungsgröße, liegt wie auch andere Belastungsgrößen aufgrund der mit einer höheren mentalen Beanspruchung einhergehenden Muskelanspannung bei Bremsungen ohne ABS deutlich höher als bei Bremsungen mit ABS. Die während des Versuchsbetriebs aufgetretenen Stürze fanden erwartungsgemäß nur bei Bremsungen ohne ABS statt. Es können folgende Empfehlungen für zukünftige Kraftradbremssysteme abgeleitet werden: ABS sollte bei Einspurfahrzeugen möglichst flächendeckend Verwendung finden; dabei kann es abschaltbar gestaltet werden. Beim Vorhandensein einer blockiergeschützten Kombibremse ist ein Bedienelement ausreichend; dies sollte der Handbremshebel sein. Eine Überschlagregelung blockiergeschützter Bremsen ist notwendig, bestehende Überschlagregelungen müssen verbessert werden. Der Originalbericht enthält als Anhang den Test zur Ermittlung der Fahrerfahrung. Auf die Wiedergabe dieses Anhanges wurde in der vorliegenden Veröffentlichung verzichtet. Der Test liegt bei der Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen vor und ist dort einsehbar. Verweise auf den Anhang im Berichtstext wurden beibehalten.
There is a need for detecting characteristics of pedestrian movement before car-pedestrian collisions to trigger a fully reversible pedestrian protection system. For this purpose, a pedestrian sensor system has been developed. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the sensor system, the in-depth knowledge of car-pedestrian impact scenarios is needed. This study aims at the evaluation of the sensor system. The accident data are selected from the STRADA database. The accident scenarios available in this database were evaluated and the knowledge of the most common scenarios was developed in terms of the pedestrian trajectory, the pedestrian speed, the car trajectory, the car velocity, etc. A mathematical model was then established to evaluate the sensor system with different detective angles. It was found that in order to detect all the pedestrians in the most common scenarios on time the sensor detective angle must be kept larger than 60 degrees.
The overall purpose of the ASSESS project is to develop a relevant and standardised set of test and assessment methods and associated tools for integrated vehicle safety systems, primarily focussing on currently available pre-crash sensing systems. The first stage of the project was to define casualty relevant accident scenarios so that the test scenarios will be developed based on accident scenarios which currently result in the greatest injury outcome, measured by a combination of casualty severity and casualty frequency. The first analysis stage was completed using data from a range of accident databases, including those which were nationally representative (STATS19, UK and STRADA, SE) and in-depth sources which provided more detailed parameters to characterise the accident scenarios (GIDAS, DE and OTS, UK). A common analysis method was developed in order to compare the data from these different sources, and while the data sets were not completely compatible, the majority of the data was aligned in such a way that allowed a useful comparison to be made. As the ASSESS project focuses on pre-crash sensing systems fitted to passenger cars, the data selected for the analysis was "injury accidents which involved at least one passenger car". The accident data analysis yielded the following ranked list of most relevant accident scenarios: Rank Accident scenario 1 Driving accident - single vehicle loss of control 2 Accidents in longitudinal traffic (same and opposite directions) 3 Accidents with turning vehicle(s) or crossing paths in junctions 4 Accidents involving pedestrians The ranked list highlights the relatively large role played by "accidents in longitudinal traffic", and "accidents with turning vehicle(s) or crossing paths in junctions" (the second and third most prevalent accident scenarios, respectively). The pre-crash systems addressed in ASSESS propose to yield beneficial safety outcomes with specific regard to these accident scenarios. This indicates that the ASSESS project is highly relevant to the current casualty crash problem. In the second stage of the analysis a selection of these accident scenarios were analysed further to define the accident parameters at a more detailed level .This paper describes the analysis approach and results from the first analysis stage.
This study investigates the protection offered by passive head-restraints with different stiffness and energy dissipation properties. For this purpose, computational multi-body models of a generic car seat and a biofidelic 50thpercentile male human for rear impact are used to study different seat designs and passive head-restraints. The validated seat-occupant model is also used in the design of two different car-seat models which are shown to effectively mitigate whiplash by utilising a crash-energy distribution technique. Five different passive head-restraints with varying stiffness (low-medium-high) and energy dissipation percentages (low-high) are successively attached to four different car-seat models. The simulation results indicate that the protection offered by head restraints is strongly dependent on the seat design. It has also been shown that the stiffness of the passive head-restraint has much more influence on whiplash-risk in comparison to its energy dissipation capacity.
Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Entwicklung eines numerischen Modells des menschlichen knöchernen Thorax, das insbesondere altersabhängige geometrische Faktoren berücksichtigt. Dieses Modell soll sowohl die männliche als auch die weibliche Population der über 64-Jährigen repräsentieren und eine an diese Altersgruppe angepasste Verletzungssimulation ermöglichen. Die vorliegende Studie identifiziert zunächst an Hand eines Kollektivs aus 126 postmortem und 40 klinischen computertomografischen Schnittbildaufnahmen eine ganze Reihe geometrischer Parameter, die sich mit dem Alter verändern. Zu den untersuchten Parametern gehören sowohl Winkel der Rippen im Raum und innerhalb des Rippenbogens, eine detaillierte Erfassung von Parametern der einzelnen Rippe (Querschnittsfläche, Krümmung, Longitudinale Verdrillung), Parameter der Wirbelsäule als Ganzes (Skoliose, Kyphose, Rotation) und einzelner Wirbel sowie des Brustbeins. Weiterhin wurden die Grundmasse des ganzen Thorax (Thoraxtiefe, Thoraxbreite) untersucht. Die hier gefundenen Altersabhängigkeiten dienten als Eingabeparameter zur Erstellung von insgesamt neun aus dem Menschmodell THUMS 3 gemorphter alter und junger Finite-Elemente Thoraxmodelle. Implementiert wurden hierbei sowohl Durchschnittsmaße als auch extreme Maße. Die Ergebnisse zeigen mehrere sich im Alter signifikant verändernde Parameter. Als wichtigste unter ihnen sind eine Zunahme der Thoraxtiefe und Thoraxbreite im Alter, die signifikante Veränderung einiger Rippenwinkel im Raum sowie der Krümmung der sechsten und siebten Rippe zu nennen. Zudem wird die Wirbelsäulenform kyphotischer und das Sternum am Übergang zwischen Manubrium und Corpus sternii gewinkelter. Die Menschmodelle THUMS 3, THUMS 4 und HUMOS 2 sind weder als typisch alt, noch typisch jung einzuordnen, dies unterscheidet sich teils von Parameter zu Parameter. Die auf Basis der Geometrie-Inputdaten durchgeführten Finite-Elemente Simulationen zeigen einen deutlichen Einfluss der zunehmenden Thoraxtiefe im Alter auf die posteriore Kraft an der Auflagefläche der Rippen sowie die Spannungsverteilung entlang der Rippen. Sie wirkt sich jedoch entgegen der Erwartungen protektiv aus und dominiert andere Faktoren wie die unterschiedlichen Rippenwinkel. Abschließend betrachtet wird ein Menschmodell, welches das 75. Perzentil der alten Bevölkerung repräsentiert, als ausreichend aussagekräftig hinsichtlich der im Alter veränderten Geometrie klassifiziert und gleichzeitig als mit angemessenem Aufwand realisierbar angesehen. Es wird daher für die Bewertung von Sicherheitssystemen empfohlen.
Aktive Systeme der passiven Fahrzeugsicherheit zum Fußgängerschutz, sogenannte crash-aktive Fußgängerschutzsysteme, werden seit 2005 zur Erfüllung der gesetzlichen Anforderungen (siehe Verordnung (EG) Nr. 78/2009 und 631/2009) in Serienfahrzeugen eingesetzt. Diese crash-aktiven Fußgängerschutzsysteme stellen im Gegensatz zu den rein passiven Systemen nur eine instationäre Lösung dar. Da die innerhalb der gesetzlichen Anforderungen definierten Testverfahren zur Bewertung stationärer Systeme entwickelt wurden, können derzeit mögliche Risiken instationärer Systeme nicht berücksichtigt werden. Im Rahmen dieses Forschungsprojektes soll ein Bewertungsverfahren für diese crash-aktiven Fußgängerschutzsysteme entwickelt werden, welches das reale Potential dieser Systeme möglichst gut wiedergibt. Basis hierfür soll eine umfangreiche Untersuchung zusätzlicher Risiken bilden. Die hier untersuchten instationären Schutzmaßnahmen werden nur im Falle eines Fahrzeuganpralls gegen Fußgänger aktiviert, der daher zuverlässig erkannt werden muss. Für die hierfür eingesetzten, kontaktbasierten Sensorsysteme stellen Fußgänger mit geringen Lasteinträgen in die Fahrzeugfront eine große Herausforderung dar. Die Lasteinträge hängen von zahlreichen Faktoren, wie bspw. der Höhe der entsprechenden Krafteinleitungspfade sowie der Größe und dem Gewichts des Fußgängers, ab. Mit Hilfe von umfangreichen Anprallversuchen und -simulationen wird gezeigt, dass die bisher eingesetzten Prüfkörper nur zum Teil für die Erfüllung dieser Anforderungen geeignet sind. Für ein geeignetes Prüfverfahren müssen daher neue Prüfkörper entwickelt werden. Durch die Aktivierung der Schutzmaßnahme soll bei den crash-aktiven Systemen vor allem das Verletzungsrisiko beim Kopfanprall verringert werden. Hierfür wird häufig die hintere Motorhaubenkante angehoben, um zusätzlichen Deformationsfreiraum zur Verfügung zu stellen. Die Haubenanhebung kann jedoch auch in zusätzlichen Verletzungsrisiken resultieren, bspw. durch die exponierte hintere Haubenkante oder die Verringerung des Deformationsfreiraums in Folge des Oberkörperanpralls. Ein Ersatzprüfverfahren zur Bewertung der Haubendeformation mit Hilfe des Hüftimpaktors wird vorgestellt. Ein hybrides Testverfahren bestehend aus Simulation und Versuch eignet sich für eine objektive Bewertung dieser Systeme, wobei die entsprechenden Versuchsparameter mit Hilfe der vorherigen Simulation bestimmt werden können.
Advancing active safety towards the protection of vulnerable road users: the PROSPECT project
(2017)
Accidents involving Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) are still a very significant issue for road safety. According to the World Health Organisation, pedestrian and cyclist deaths account for more than 25% of all road traffic deaths worldwide. Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems have the potential to improve safety for these VRU groups. The PROSPECT project (Proactive Safety for Pedestrians and Cyclists) aims to significantly improve the effectiveness of active VRU safety systems compared to those currently on the market by expanding the scope of scenarios addressed by the systems and improving the overall system performance. The project pursues an integrated approach: Newest available accident data combined with naturalistic observations and HMI guidelines represent key inputs for the system specifications, which form the basis for the system development. For system development, two main aspects are considered: advanced sensor processing with situation analysis, and intervention strategies including braking and steering. All these concepts are implemented in several vehicle prototypes. Special emphasis is put on balancing system performance in critical scenarios and avoiding undesired system activations. For system validation, testing in realistic scenarios will be done. Results will allow the performance assessment of the developed concepts and a cost-benefit analysis. The findings within the PROSPECT project will contribute to the generation of state -of-the-art knowledge, technical innovations, assessment methodologies and tools for advancing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems towards the protection of VRUs. The introduction of a new generation safety system in the market will enhance VRU road safety in 2020-2025, contributing to the "Vision Zero" objective of no fatalities or serious injuries in road traffic set out in the Transport White Paper. Furthermore, the test methodologies and tools developed within the project shall be considered for the New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) future roadmaps, supporting the European Commission goal of halving the road toll in the 2011-2020 timeframe.
For more than a decade, ADAC accident researchers have analysed road accidents with severe injuries, recording some 20,000 accidents. An important task in accident research is to determine the causative factors of road accidents. Apart from vehicle engineering and human factors, accident research also focuses on infrastructural and environmental aspects. To find out what accident scenarios are the most common in ADAC accident research and what driver assistance systems can prevent them, our first task was to conduct a detailed accident analysis. Using CarMaker, we performed a realistic simulation of accident scenarios, including crashes, with varying parameters. To begin with, we made an initial selection of driver assistance systems in order to determine those with the greatest accident prevention potential. One important finding of this study is that the safety potential of the individual driver assistance systems can actually be examined. It also turned out that active safety offers even much more potential for development and innovation than passive safety. At the same time, testing becomes more demanding, too, as new systems keep entering the market, many of them differing in functional details. ADAC will continue to test all driver assistance systems as realistically as possible so as to be able to provide advice to car buyers. Therefore, it will be essential to develop and improve test conditions and criteria.
Accident research 2.0: New methods for representative evaluation of integral safety in traffic
(2013)
BMW has developed a procedure for rating Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) benefits that integrates two distinct tools. The tool "S.A.F.E.R." is designed to analyze the pre-crash phase. The aim of S.A.F.E.R. is to simulate all relevant processes in sufficient detail to obtain reproducible estimates of key indicators (effectiveness, false positives, etc.). The relevant processes include not only traffic and vehicle dynamics, but also environmental and most importantly human factors. Representative distributions of factors and parameters are obtained by taking the stochastic variation of all relevant parameters into account in the simulations. The second tool, known as "ICOS", has been designed to provide a high-resolution, high-fidelity description of crash phase dynamics. If one converts the outputs of stochastic simulation into inputs for crash dynamics, the result is a comprehensive description of exactly how a safety system can reduce injuries. Applications currently focus on high-fidelity simulation of individual crashes in order to enhance our understanding and optimization of connected safety systems. An integrated simulation process thus allows an exact prediction of the effectiveness in individual cases in terms of injury severity. The development and rating of integral safety need to reflect the true efficiency in the field. The integrated approach described here could provide a valid and reproducible basis for rating connected systems of active and passive safety. In particular, "virtual experiments" using a traffic-based approach and incorporating models of all relevant processes constitute an essential element of the approach.
Nigeria ranks one of the highest countries in the world with the largest accident, especially when measured by whiplash associated disorders, whereas, traffic safety education rate, data and information been widely known as preventive indicators have been grossly neglected. In Nigeria, traffic safety enlightenment, awareness, political understanding and appreciation of the problem's magnitude are lacking. This study, therefore, seeks to understand and document the fact that accident causation factors in Nigeria relate more to the problem of development, poverty, knowledge and education as evidenced in most other developing countries. Among the primary accident causation factors on Nigerian roads are: - lack of a transportation system or multi-model integration - sub-standard and obsolete vehicles and road furniture - poor road maintenance, investment and engineering management - paucity of road users' and drivers' knowledge, skill, enlightenment and education of the road Use This paper submits that Nigeria being a developing nation requires purely primitive strategies being cost effective (health wise) than curative measures. It is in this light that an enduring, comprehensive and sustainable traffic safety educational programmes information base and data inventory, analysis and implementations form the focus of this study. This effort will provide basic guidelines framework and implementation procedure for a successful prevention of whiplash associated disorder resulting from road traffic crashes in Nigeria and other parts of the world.
Fahrerassistenzsystemen mit Umfeldwahrnehmung wird ein hohes Potenzial zur Unfallvermeidung zugeschrieben, wenn diese umfassender und intensiver in die Fahrdynamik von Fahrzeugen eingreifen und weiter vernetzt werden. Diese erweiterten Eingriffsmöglichkeiten erzeugen auch neue Risiken, welche vor der Genehmigung und Zulassung für den öffentlichen Straßenverkehr abgesichert werden müssen. Neuartig ist bei diesen Systemen, dass sie nur über eine Situationsrepräsentation die unfallvermeidenden Handlungen ableiten können. Somit kommt zum Risiko des Versagens von Systemkomponenten, das bereits durch die ISO 26262-Norm zur funktionalen Sicherheit adressiert ist, das Risiko aufgrund einer falschen Interpretation auftretenden, nicht situationsgemaessen Auslösung, z. B. durch Situationskonstellationen, die bei der Entwicklung nicht berücksichtigt wurden und daher in den Funktionsspezifikationen nicht enthalten sind. Um die Anforderungen an Absicherungsmethoden für diese Assistenzsysteme zu identifizieren, werden diese zusammengestellt und der Absicherungsaufwand mit bestehenden Methoden, bspw. aufbauend auf den Anforderungen der ISO 26262, bestimmt. Die Analyse zeigt, dass bisherige Ansätze sowohl hinsichtlich der objektiven Nachweisbarkeit der Vollständigkeit der theoretisch möglichen Situationen Lücken aufweisen als auch hinsichtlich des Umfangs der notwendigen Spezifikationen und deren Prüfung in Versuchen. Aufgrund des daher zu erwartenden Aufwands für den Nachweis eines sicheren Verhaltens der Systeme sind eine Priorisierung von Fahrsituationen und die Gewährleistung einer hohen Übertragbarkeit von Bewertungsergebnissen notwendig. Um die Vollständigkeitsproblematik zu adressieren, wird ein Ansatz vorgestellt, der eine objektive Bewertung und den Vergleich von Fahrsituationen ermöglicht. Abschließend werden die Erkenntnisse zusammengefasst und notwendige weitere Schritte für die Schaffung einer einheitlichen Absicherungsstrategie für Fahrerassistenzsysteme abgeleitet.
The European CASPER (Child Advanced Safety Project for European Roads) project studying car child safety includes a sociological approach in order to have a better understanding of the behaviour of parents driving children under 12 years old. A questionnaire was distributed via the internet in Europe with 998 parents (representing 1638 children) from 22 European countries responding. The results inform on the way parents secure their children during a car trip. Many parents did not control how their children were installed in the child restraint system (CRS). A toddler was more likely to travel into a child seat than an older child was. Regarding misuse situations, an important part of the participants did not think that they could make mistakes when fixing the child seat to the car (26%) or when placing the child into the seat (39%). This leaves an important field of action especially by communication via different media and in the CRS sale outlets.
Vehicle crash research at different levels is currently being conducted by several investigation groups in Spain, in some instances within various EU-funded projects. However there is a clear opportunity for increasing compatibility and maximizing usefulness, both at national and European levels, of the information collected by these groups. After reviewing on-going activities and programs in different countries, a framework for a nationwide crash investigation project is proposed: an organizational scheme is suggested as part of a future National Road Safety Strategic Plan; a map of investigation teams located in technological centres, universities and police agencies in Spain is presented; alternatives for several practical aspects such as team composition, deployment and operational budgets and project developmental stages are also discussed.
One main objective of the EU-Project SENIORS is to provide improved methods to assess thoracic injury risk to elderly occupants. In contribution to this task paired simulations with a THOR dummy model and human body model will be used to develop improved thoracic injury risk functions. The simulation results can provide data for injury criteria development in chest loading conditions that are underrepresented in PMHS test data sets that currently proposed risk functions are based on. To support this approach a new simplified generic but representative sled test fixture and CAE model for testing and simulation were developed. The parameter definition and evaluation of this sled test fixture and model is presented in this paper. The justification and definition of requirements for this test set-up was based on experience from earlier studies. Simple test fixtures like the gold standard sled fixture are easy to build and also to model in CAE, but provide too severe belt-only loading. On the other hand a vehicle buck including production components like airbag and seat is more representative, but difficult to model and to be replicated at a different laboratory. Furthermore some components might not be available for physical tests at later stage. The basis of the SENIORS generic sled test set-up is the gold standard fixture with a cable seat back and foot rest. No knee restraint was used. The seat pan design was modified including a seat ramp. The three-point belt system had a generic adjustable load limiter. A pre-inflated driver airbag assembly was developed for the test fixture. Results of THOR test and simulations in different configurations will be presented. The configurations include different deceleration pulses. Further parameter variations are related to the restraint system including belt geometry and load limiter levels. Additionally different settings of the generic airbag were evaluated. The test set-up was evaluated and optimized in tests with the THOR-M dummy in different test configurations. Belt restraint parameters like D-ring position and load limiter setting were modified to provide moderate chest loading to the occupant. This resulted in dummy readings more representative of the loading in a contemporary vehicle than most available PMHS sled tests reported in the literature. However, to achieve a loading configuration that exposes the occupant to even less severe loading comparable to modern vehicle restraints it might be necessary to further modify the test set-up. The new generic sled test set-up and a corresponding CAE model were developed and applied in tests and simulations with THOR. Within the SENIORS project with this test set-up also volunteer and PMHS as well as HBM simulations are performed, which will be reported in other publications. The test environment can contribute in future studies to the assessment of existing and new frontal impact dummies as well as dummy improvements and related instrumentation. The test set-up and model could also serve as a new standard test environment for PMHS and volunteer tests as well as HBM simulations.
Description of road traffic related knee injuries in published investigations is very heterogeneous. The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk of knee injuries in real world car impacts in Germany focusing vulnerable road users (pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists) and restrained car drivers. The accident research unit analyses technical and medical data collected shortly after the accident at scene. Two different periods (years 1985-1993 and 1995-2003) were compared focusing on knee injuries (Abbreviated Injury Scale (AISKnee) 2/3). In order to determine the influences type of collision, direction and speed as well as the injury pattern and different injury scores (AIS, MAIS, ISS) were examined. 1.794 pedestrians, 742 motorcyclists, 2.728 bicyclists and 1.116 car drivers were extracted. 2% had serious ligamentous or bony injuries in relation to all injured. The risk of injury is higher for twowheelers than for pedestrians, but knee injury severity is higher for the latter group. Overall the current knee injury risk is low and significant reduced comparing both time periods (27%, p<0,0001). Severe injuries (AISKnee 2/3) were below 1%). Improved aerodynamic design of car fronts reduced the risk for severe knee injuries significantly (p=0,0015). Highest risk of injury is for motorcycle followed by pedestrians, respectively. Knee protectors could prevent injuries by reducing local forces. The classically described dashboard injury was rarely identified. The overall injury risk for knee injuries in road traffic is lower than estimated and reduced comparing both periods. The aerodynamic shape of current cars compared to older types reduced the incidence and severity of knee injuries. Further modification and optimization of the interior and exterior design could be a proper measurement. Classic described injury mechanisms were rarely identified. It seems that the AIS is still underestimating extremity injuries and their long term results.
Der Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club e.V. (ADAC) und die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) veranstalteten am 13. Oktober 2006 in Baden-Baden das 6. Symposium "Sicher fahren in Europa". Die Fachvorträge befassten sich mit den Themenbereichen: Ansätze zu mehr Verkehrssicherheit, - Verbesserung der Fahrzeugsicherheit, - Besondere Zielgruppen. Die CD-ROM dokumentiert die Grußworte, die Referate und die Podiumsdiskussion.
In 2012 the fifth ESAR conference (Expert Symposium on Accident Research) was held in Hannover. ESAR is an international convention of experts, who analyze traffic accidents all over the world and discuss their results in this context, conducted at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover every 2 years. It connected representatives of public authorities, engineers in automotive development and scientists and offers a forum with particular emphasis on In-Depth-Analyses of accident statistics and accident analyses. Special focus is placed on research on the basis of so-called "In-Depth-Accident-Investigations" [data collections at the sites of the accidents], which are characterized by extensive documentations of the sites of the accidents, of the vehicles as well as of the injuries, encompassing several scientific fields. ESAR aims at a multi-disciplinary compilation of scientific results and at discussing them on an international, scientific level. It is thus a scientific colloquium and a platform for exchanging information for all accident researchers. Experiences in accident prevention as well as in the complex field of accident reconstruction are stated and new research fields are added. Existing results of long-term research work in Europe, the US, Australia and Japan include different infrastructural correlations and give findings on population, vehicle population and driver characteristics, which offer a basis for recommendations to be derived and measures for increasing road safety.
Das Fahren mit Licht am Tag wird seit dem 1. Oktober 2005 vom damaligen Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (BMVBS) empfohlen. Weiterhin wurde im Februar 2011 auf europäischer Ebene beschlossen, alle neuen Fahrzeugtypen der Fahrzeugklasse M1 (Fahrzeuge zur Personenbeförderung mit vier Rädern und maximal 8 Sitzplätzen außer dem Fahrersitz) sowie der Fahrzeugklasse N1 (Kraftfahrzeuge zur Güterbeförderung mit mindestens vier Rädern und mit einem zulässigen Gesamtgewicht bis zu 3,5 t) mit speziellen Tagfahrleuchten (TFL) auszustatten. Seit August 2012 gilt diese Regelung auch für alle anderen Fahrzeugklassen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Entwicklung wird davon ausgegangen, dass sich das Fahren mit Licht am Tag immer weiter verbreitet. Um daraus resultierende Sicherheitsgewinne bewerten zu können, ist eine kontinuierliche Beobachtung der Lichteinschaltquoten am Tag erforderlich. Die Grundidee der kontinuierlichen Erfassung der Lichteinschaltquoten am Tag mit der angewendeten Erhebungsmethodik wird beschrieben. Im Fokus stehen die neuen Qualitätssicherungsmaßnahmen. Abschließend werden die bisher ermittelten Zeitreihen analysiert.