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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.
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.
Autobahnfahrbahnen aus unbewehrtem Beton sind durch Quer- und Längsfugen in Plattenelemente mit Standardmaßen unterteilt, wobei die Abmessungen auf Erfahrungswerten beruhen. Im Zuge des Forschungsprojektes wurde das Schwingungs- und Verformungsverhalten einer Betonfahrbahnplatte untersucht, um so Erkenntnisse über das dynamische Verhalten einer Betonfahrbahnplatte unter Verkehr zu erlangen. Zu diesem Zweck wurde eine neuartige Messstelle mit Beschleunigungssensoren zur Erfassung der Plattenbewegung errichtet. Einsenkungsdaten der Platte wurden durch Integration der Beschleunigungswerte bestimmt. Zunächst konnten bei der Auswertung der gemessenen Daten wertvolle Empfehlungen für Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten der Messeinrichtung bezüglich Auswahl, Anzahl, Platzierung der Sensoren, Ausführungsdetails und zweckmäßigerweise zusätzlich zu installierender Messsysteme gewonnen werden. Nach Analyse der Messdaten hinsichtlich Einsenkung und spektraler Leistungsdichte konnte festgestellt werden, dass ein harmonisches Schwingungsverhalten oder ein Nachschwingen der Platte durch die starke Dämpfung des Systems ausgeschlossen werden kann. Des Weiteren wurde ein FE-Modell der Betonplatte mit den realen Abmessungen und Stoffkennwerten erstellt und nach dem Verfahren von Westergaard sowie anhand der Messwerte kalibriert. An diesem können Variationen von Länge, Breite und Höhe der Platte berechnet und das Verhalten bei Überfahrt eines Lkw untersucht werden. Hierbei zeigte sich ein dominanter Einfluss des Untergrundes auf das Schwingungs- und Verformungsverhalten der Betonfahrbahnplatte. Bei Variationen der Plattenlänge konnte ein Einfluss der Länge auf die Relativbewegung in der Fuge ermittelt werden. Hier ist besonders bei Längen von mehr als 5 m eine starke Zunahme zu bemerken. Durch Betrachten des Plattenverhaltens beim Lastübergang zwischen den Platten konnte die Theorie des Pumpens und der dadurch verursachten Stoffumlagerung bestätigt werden.
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.
This study aimed at prediction of long bone fractures and assessment of lower extremity injury mechanisms in real world passenger car to pedestrian collision. For this purpose, two pedestrian accident cases with detail recorded lower limb injuries were reconstructed via combining MBS (Multi-body system) and FE (Finite element) methods. The code of PC Crash was used to determine the boundary conditions before collision, and then MBS models were used to reproduce the pedestrian kinematics and injuries during crash. Furthermore, a validated lower limb FE model was chosen to conduct reconstruction of injuries and prediction of long bone fracture via physical parameters of von Mises stress and bending moment. The injury outcomes from simulations were compared with hospital recorded injury data and the same long bone fracture patterns and positions can be observed. Moreover, the calculated long bone fracture tolerance corresponded to the outcome from cadaver tests. The result shows that FE model is capable to reproduce the dynamic injury process and is an effective tool to predict the risk of long bone fractures.
For the estimation of the benefit and effect of innovative Driver Assistance Systems (DAS) on the collision positions and by association on the accident severity, together with the economic benefit, it becomes necessary to simulate and evaluate a variety of virtual accidents with different start values (e.g. initial speed). Taken into account the effort necessary for a manual reconstruction, only an automated crash computation can be considered for this task. This paper explains the development of an automated crash computation based on GIDAS. The focus will be on the design of the virtual vehicle models, the method of the crash computation as well as exemplary applications of the automated crash computation. For the first time an automated crash computation of passenger car accidents has been realized. Using the automated crash computation different tasks within the field of vehicle safety can be elaborated. This includes, for example, the calculation of specific accident parameters (such as EES or delta-V) for various accident constellations and the estimation of the economic benefit of DAS using IRFs (Injury Risk Functions).
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.
Bus or heavy vehicle passenger accidents are rare events, compared with car accidents, but sometimes leads to a large number of victims especially in rollover crash scenarios. Two accidents occurred in Portugal in 2007 and 2013 in which 28 people died and more than 50 are injured, shown the importance of the investigation of such accidents. For the investigation of these accidents multidisciplinary teams are constituted with engineers and police officers. All the factors involved are taken into consideration including road design, traffic signs, maintenance and hardware, human factors, and vehicle factors. In this work a methodology to an accurate collection of the data is proposed. From the information collected the accident is reconstructed using the PC-CrashTM software. From this all the contribution factors are determined and recommendations to mitigate these crashes are listed. These two accidents are rollover accidents and the analysis of the injuries and its correlation with the use of retention systems is very important. From the medical data and with the dynamics of the accident determined simulations of the occupants with biomechanical models are carried out in order to evaluate the effect of the retention systems in the injuries. This analysis is based on injury criteria (such as Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS) or Injury Severity Scale (ISS)). With this it is possible to determine if the seat belt was worn or not.
This work describes the results of the experimental activity, illustrating the driving behavior observed in different conditions, relating them to the different methods of ADAS intervention and comparing the driver behavior without ADAS. In the present study, driver behavior was studied in road accidents involving elderly pedestrians, with different ADAS HMIs, as a base to develop a driver model in near missing pedestrian accidents. A literature research was conducted with the aim of finding out the main influencing factors, including environment, boundary conditions, configuration of impact, pedestrian and driver information, when pedestrian fatalities occur and an analysis of frequent road accidents was conducted to get more detailed information about the driver- behavior. In order to obtain more detailed information about pedestrian accidents, real road accidents were reconstructed with multibody simulations on PC-Crash and, by the comparison between literature findings and reconstructions, a generic accident scenario was defined. The generic accident scenario was implemented on the full scale dynamic driving simulator in use at the Laboratory for Safety and Traffic Accident Analysis (LaSIS, University of Florence, Italy) in order to analyse the driving behaviors of volunteers, also considering the influence of ADAS devices. Forty-five young volunteers were enrolled for this study, resulting in forty valid tests on different testing scenarios. Two different scenarios consisted in driving with or without ADAS in the vehicle. Different kinds of ADAS, acoustic and optical, with different time of intervention were tested in order to study the different reactions of the driver. The tests showed some interesting differences between driver's behavior when approaching the critical situation. Drivers with ADAS reacted earlier, but more slowly, depending also on the type of alarm, and often with double reaction when braking. In fact, the results of the activity showed that with ADAS intervention the time to collision (TTC) increases, but the reaction time and braking modality change: a) there is a sort of "latency" time between the accelerator pedal release and the brake pressure; b) the brake pressure is initially less intense. So the driver only partially takes advance from the TTC increase. These differences were valued not only qualitatively, but quantitatively as well. This work revealed to be useful to improve the knowledge of drivers" behavior, in order to realize a driver model that can be implemented to help attaining and assessing higher levels of automation through new technology.
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.