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Side-impact safety of passenger cars is assessed in Europe in a full-scale test using a moving barrier. The front of this barrier is deformable and represents the stiffness of an 'average' car. The EU Directive 96/27/EC on side impact protection has adopted the EEVC Side Impact Test Procedure, including the original performance specification for the barrier face when impacting a flat dynamometric rigid wall. The requirements of the deformable barrier face, as laid down in the Directive, are related to geometrical characteristics, deformation characteristics and energy dissipation figures. Due to these limited requirements, many variations are possible in designing a deformable barrier face. As a result, several barrier face designs are in the market. However, research institutes and car manufacturers report significant difference in test results when using these different devices. It appears that the present approval test is not able to distinguish between the different designs that may perform differently when they impact real vehicles. Therefore, EEVC Working Group 13 has developed a number of tests to evaluate the different designs. In these tests the barrier faces are loaded and deformed in a specific and/or more representative way. Barrier faces of different design have been evaluated. In the paper the set-up and the reasoning behind the tests is presented. Results showing specific differences in performance are demonstrated.
Ein wichtiges Ziel von Streckenbeeinflussungsanlagen (SBA) ist die Erhöhung der Verkehrssicherheit. Dies kann nicht nur durch dynamische Reaktionen auf vorherrschende Verkehrszustände, sondern auch aufgrund von Informationen zu aktuellen Umfeldbedingungen wie Niederschlagsintensität, Sichtweite und Wasserfilmdicke erreicht werden. Kritische Situationen müssen von den entsprechenden Sensoren ausreichend genau und schnell erkannt werden, wobei die Zuverlässigkeit dieser Sensoren nur unter realen Bedingungen getestet werden kann. Hierfür wurde bei München ein Testfeld aufgebaut, sodass den Herstellern dezidierte Rückmeldungen bezüglich möglicher Schwächen gegeben werden können und letztendlich die Eignung verschiedener Sensoren und Erfassungstechnologien für den Einsatz in SBA eingeschätzt werden kann.
Ziel der Gesamtstudie ist die Zusammenstellung pharmakologisch geeigneter, praktikabler Versuchsplanungen sowie Untersuchungs- und Auswerteverfahren, die zur Feststellung der Wirkung von Medikamenten auf die Fahrtüchtigkeit empfohlen werden können. Im ersten Projektabschnitt der Studie erfolgt eine Literatursichtung, die sich auf deutsch- und englischsprachige Arbeiten stützt. Es werden alle unmittelbar verfügbaren Arbeiten ab dem Veröffentlichungsjahr 1970 berücksichtigt, wobei in diesen Arbeiten der Einfluss von Medikamenten auf verkehrsrelevante Leistungs- und Persönlichkeitsbereiche mit vorwiegend psychologischen Testverfahren überprüft wird. Ein Teil der Untersuchungen weist gravierende methodische Mängel auf, die sich auf Stichprobengröße, Stichprobenauswahl, Kontrollgruppendesign, fehlende Aussagen über den Versuchsablauf sowie auf Mängel in der statistischen Auswertung beziehen. Solche methodischen Mängel machen die Entwicklung eines Untersuchungsdesigns notwendig, in das verwertbare Ergebnisse der Literaturrecherche eingehen können und mit dessen Hilfe in einem zweiten Projektabschnitt eine endgültige standardisierte Testbatterie ermittelt werden kann. Wegen der methodischen Einschränkungen wird nur eine vorläufige Testauswahl vorgeschlagen.
Aufgabe des Projektes war eine auf deutsch- und englischsprachige Autoren beschränkte Literaturrecherche mit dem Ziel, ein geeignetes Prüfverfahren aufzuzeigen, dass im Rahmen gesetzlicher Maßnahmen zum Nachweis der Fahrtüchtigkeit nach Medikamentenwirkungen als verbindlich vorgeschrieben werden kann. Der Bearbeitung lag ein theoretisches Modell zugrunde, bei dem die Fahrtüchtigkeit als ein Konstrukt aufgefasst wird, das keiner unmittelbaren Messung zugänglich ist. Es wurden deshalb in einem ersten Operationalisierungsschritt Funktionsbereiche (Prädikatoren) etabliert, die die Fahrtüchtigkeit optimal definieren. In einem zweiten Operationalisierungschritt wurden solche Prädikatoren auf Tests zurückgeführt. Es wird eine Auswahl von Tests zusammengestellt, die aufgrund bestimmter Gütekriterien für den Nachweis der Fahrtüchtigkeit nach Arzneimitteleinnahme als valide anzusehen sind. Die Tests werden nur als ein Element des gesamten Prüfverfahrens angesehen, zu dem u.a. auch der Testverlauf, die Auswahl der Stichproben sowie die Registrierung pharmakogenetischer Kenngrößen gehören. Die erste Bearbeitungsphase des Projektes führte zu dem Vorschlag eines vorläufigen Testpolls und zu Vorschlägen über die Ausgestaltung des gesamten Testverlaufs einschließlich der zu erhebenden physiologischen Parameter und pharmakologischen Kenngrößen.
Established in 1997, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) provides consumers with a safety performance assessment for the majority of the most popular cars in Europe. Thanks to its rigorous crash tests, Euro NCAP has rapidly become an important driver safety improvement to new cars. After ten years of rating vehicles, Euro NCAP felt that a change was necessary to stay in tune with rapidly emerging driver assistance and crash avoidance systems and to respond to shifting priorities in road safety. A new overall rating system was introduced that combines the most important aspects of vehicle safety under a single star rating. The overall rating system has allowed Euro NCAP to continue to push for better fitment and higher performance for vehicles sold on the European market. In the coming years, the safety rating is expected to play an important role in the support of the roll-out of highly automated vehicles.
Automated driving will provide many kinds of benefits - some direct and some indirect. The benefits originate at the individual level, from changes in the behaviour of drivers and travellers with regard to driving and mobility, ending up with benefits at the social level via changes in the whole transport system and society, where many of the current planning and operations paradigms are likely to be transformed by automated driving. There may also be disbenefits, particularly at a social level, for example in intensity of travel which could result in additional congestion and increased use of natural resources. There may also be unintended consequences. For example, we do not know the impacts on public transport: driverless vehicles could provide a means to a lower cost service provision, but the availability of automated cars could lead to more car travel at the expense of collective transport.
The first version of German Highway Capacity Manual was published in 2001. Now, a new version is published in 2015 (HBS 2015). For the new German Highway Capacity Manual, most major chapters are revised and some of them are totally rewritten. The chapter for merge, diverge, and small weaving segments is rewritten in accordance with forthcoming developments in the past 10 years. In this paper, an overview of the chapter in the new German Highway Capacity Manual is presented. Procedures dealing with performance analyses and level of service (LOS) of those segments are introduced both for freeways and rural highways. Differences between the former version and the new version of the chapter in the German Highway Capacity Manual are indicated and discussed. In most of the existing highway capacity manuals, LOS of merge, diverge, and small weaving segments is traditionally defined by speed, volume, or density in critical areas. In that traditional concept several capacity values of different critical areas (merge, diverge, and weaving) as well as upstream and downstream basic segments within the influence areas are evaluated separately. In the new HBS 2015, a new model which considers the total merge, diverge, and weaving segment as an entire object is incorporated. A combined volume-to-capacity ratio (freeways) or a combined density (rural highways) is used for defining the LOS of the total segment. The parameters of the new procedure are functions of the number of lanes of the major road, the number of lanes in the on-ramp or off-ramp, and the predefined geometric design of those segments. The coefficients are calibrated with field data or defined by experts" experiences within a matrix of coefficients. With those procedures, the traffic quality (LOS) can be obtained directly as a function of the volumes or densities on the major road and on the on-ramp or off-ramp respectively. The new procedure has the following advantages: a) a uniform function for all types of merge, diverge, and small weaving segments, b) traffic quality assessment for all critical areas under investigation in one step, and c) the procedure can easily be calibrated. For applications in practice, a set of graphs is provided.
This thesis gives a detailed picture of how planners, politicians, residents and transport engineers in three societies, Britain, Germany and the United States reacted to one of the most powerful inventions of the late nineteenth century, the motor car. Misjudgments of the potential growth of motor vehicle ownership and its adverse effects had serious repercussions in the coming decades, primarily in the dense urban areas. Disturbing has been the underestimation of the importance of public transport as a real alternative to the motor car in urban areas, first by the United States and even several decades later by Britain. Of the three countries, only Germany seems to have struck a better balance. Not surprisingly, already at the beginning of the twentieth century, conflicts occurred between the weaker road participants (pedestrians and cyclists), the existing urban fabric and the motor vehicle. A more comprehensive comparison between Britain and Germany shows that both countries developed specific patterns and had different attitudes towards road transport. Far more has been invested and planned in Germany whereas Britain has shown not so much a lack of foresight in planning but 'in investment in road transport. This major difference has had very visible effects an today's urban structure and transport situation. The demand for restraint of motor traffic had different motives in the two countries, and is not such a new idea as is often assumed. While in Germany even in the 1920s and 30s the protection of historic inheritance was a decisive motive, in Britain that was not the case. Questions of traffic restraint were however raised in connection with road safety and later in the 60s as a means of improving the urban environment. The turning point of nearly unlimited promotion of car use in urban areas took place in Germany during the 60s and 70s, whereas the Buchanan Report had already warned in the early 60s against the adverse effects cars could have in urban areas if they were not controlled. Although even in Britain the report was misunderstood and largely not put into practice, the wave of protest against road building occurred earlier there than in Germany. As a whole, Britain has shown a brillance of ideas in restraining motor vehicles which was lacking in the Federal Republic. At the beginning of the 70s, discussions started seriously in Germany an traffic calming concepts which were slowly transformed into reality, Britain seems to have followed these examples, but with a considerable time lag.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Informal Group on GTR No. 7 Phase 2 are working to define a build level for the BioRID II rear impact (whiplash) crash test dummy that ensures repeatable and reproducible performance in a test procedure that has been proposed for future legislation. This includes the specification of dummy hardware, as well as the development of comprehensive certification procedures for the dummy. This study evaluated whether the dummy build level and certification procedures deliver the desired level of repeatability and reproducibility. A custom-designed laboratory seat was made using the seat base, back, and head restraint from a production car seat to ensure a representative interface with the dummy. The seat back was reinforced for use in multiple tests and the recliner mechanism was replaced by an external spring-damper mechanism. A total of 65 tests were performed with 6 BioRID IIg dummies using the draft GTR No.7 sled pulse and seating procedure. All dummies were subject to the build, maintenance, and certification procedures defined by the Informal Group. The test condition was highly repeatable, with a very repeatable pulse, a well-controlled seat back response, and minimal observed degradation of seat foams. The results showed qualitatively reasonable repeatability and reproducibility for the upper torso and head accelerations, as well as for T1 Fx and upper neck Fx. However, reproducibility was not acceptable for T1 and upper neck Fz or for T1 and upper neck My. The Informal Group has not selected injury or seat assessment criteria for use with BioRID II, so it is not known whether these channels would be used in the regulation. However, the ramping-up behavior of the dummy showed poor reproducibility, which would be expected to affect the reproducibility of dummy measurements in general. Pelvis and spine characteristics were found to significantly influence the dummy measurements for which poor reproducibility was observed. It was also observed that the primary neck response in these tests was flexion, not extension. This correlates well with recent findings from Japan and the United States showing a correlation between neck flexion and injury in accident replication simulations and postmortem human subjects (PMHS) studies, respectively. The present certification tests may not adequately control front cervical spine bumper characteristics, which are important for neck flexion response. The certification sled test also does not include the pelvis and so cannot be used to control pelvis response and does not substantially load the lumbar bumpers and so does not control these parts of the dummy. The stiffness of all spine bumpers and of the pelvis flesh should be much more tightly controlled. It is recommended that a method for certifying the front cervical bumpers should be developed. Recommendations are also made for tighter tolerance on the input parameters for the existing certification tests.
Der Bewertung der strukturellen Substanz von Straßenaufbauten kommt im Rahmen einer wirtschaftlichen Erhaltungsplanung eine entscheidende Bedeutung zu. Die vorhandenen Zustandsdaten aus der regelmäßigen Zustandserfassung und -bewertung (ZEB) bieten hierfür eine gute Grundlage, beschränken sich allerdings auf die Bewertung von Oberflächeneigenschaften. Die Messung der Tragfähigkeit stellt daher einen wichtigen Baustein bei der Bewertung der strukturellen Substanz dar, ist allerdings bei den etablierten Messverfahren aufgrund der Messgeschwindigkeit und der damit gegebenenfalls verbundenen Behinderung des fließenden Verkehrs eher auf Objektebene einsetzbar. Mit dem im letzten Jahrzehnt entwickelten Traffic Speed Deflectometer (TSD) sind nun schnellfahrende Tragfähigkeitsmessungen möglich. Im Rahmen eines Pilotprojekts im Freistaat Bayern wurde die Anwendbarkeit des TSD im Vergleich zu anderen Messverfahren auf Bundesautobahnen, Bundesstraßen und Staatsstraßen untersucht.