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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.
For the determination of the road surface roughness common methods have been established, like Skid Resistance Tester (SRT) or the Sideway-force Coefficient Routine Investigation Machine (SCRIM). Both methods are used to measure a comparable and reliable maximum friction potential value and to assess the quality of the road surface. However, the comparison of the measurements under real conditions and the results of measurements with SRT and SCRIM showed only minor correlations. The paper shows the comparison between these standardised methods and real vehicle braking tests and discusses the results.
The objectives of this paper are the analysis of the accident risk of drivers brain pathologies (Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer- disease, and Parkinson- disease), and the investigation of the impact of driver distraction on the accident risk of patients with brain pathologies, through a driving simulator experiment. The three groups of patients are compared to a healthy group of similar demographics, with no brain pathology. In particular, 125 drivers of more than 55 years old (34 "controls"" and 91 "patients") went through a large driving simulator experimental process, in which incidents were scheduled to occur. They drove in rural and urban areas, in low and high traffic volumes and in three distraction conditions (undistracted driving, conversation with a passenger and conversation through a mobile phone). The statistical analyses indicated several interesting findings; brain pathologies affect significantly accident risk and distraction affects more the groups of patients than the control one.
Motorcycle crashes in Austria: Analysis of causes and contributing factors based on in-depth data
(2017)
From CEDATU, the in-depth accident database run by the Vehicle Safety Institute at Graz University of Technology, a representative sample of 101 crashes involving at least one motorcycle was selected. The analysis focused on causes for crashes as well as on contributing factors, but also included parameters of road, riders and vehicles. Own riding speed and "unexpectable action by another road user" were the most frequent causes for accidents. Inappropriate safety distance or delayed reaction were frequent, both as causation factors and as contributing factors. Infrastructure issues never cause an accident, but they are very frequent as contributing factors; road geometry and road guidance are by far most frequent among these. This paper also discusses accidents by type and other parameters (e.g. injury severity by body region, collision speed, age and others), and compares accident causes to previous studies as well as the police reported accident statistics.
The Decision Support System (DSS) is one of the key objectives of the European co-funded research project SafetyCube in order to better support evidence-based policy making. Results will be assembled in the form of a DSS that will present for each suggested road safety measure: details of risk factor tackled, measure, best estimate of casualty reduction effectiveness, cost-benefit evaluation and analytic background. The development of the DSS presents a great potential to further support decision making at local, regional, national and international level, aiming to fill in the current gap of comparable measures effectiveness evaluation. In order to provide policy-makers and industry with comprehensive and well-structured information about measures, it is essential that a systems approach is used to ensure the links between risk factors and all relevant safety measures are made fully visible. The DSS is intended to become a major source of information for industry, policy-makers and the wider road safety community.
In most of developed countries, the progress made in passive safety during the last three decades allowed to drastically reduce the number of killed and severely injured especially for occupants of passenger cars. This reduction is mainly observed for frontal impacts for which the AIS3+ injuries has been reduced about 52% for drivers and 38% for front passengers. The stiffening of the cars' structure coupled with the generalization of airbags and the improvement of the seatbelt restraint (load limiter, pretension, etc.) allowed to protect vital body regions such as head, neck and thorax. However, the abdomen did not take advantage with so much success of this progress. The objective of this study is to draw up an inventory on the abdominal injuries of the belted car occupants involved in frontal impact, to present adapted counter-measures and to assess their potential effectiveness. In the first part the stakes corresponding to the abdominal injuries will be defined according to types of impact, seat location, occupants' age and type of injured organs. Then, we shall focus on the abdominal injury risk curves for adults involved in frontal impact and on the comparisons of the average risks according to the seat location. In the second part we will list counter-measures and we shall calculate their effectiveness. The method of case control will be used in order to estimate odds ratio, comparing two samples, given by occupants having or not having the studied safety system. For this study, two type of data sources are used: national road injured accident census and retrospective in-depth accident data collection. Abdominal injuries are mainly observed in frontal impact (52%). Fatal or severe abdominal occupant- injuries are observed at least in 27% of cases, ranking this body region as the most injured just after the thorax (51%). In spite of a twice lower occupation rate in the back seats compared to the front seats, the number of persons sustaining abdominal injuries at the rear place is higher than in the front place. In recent cars, the risk of having a serious or fatal abdominal injury in a frontal impact is 1.6% for the driver, 3.6% for the front passenger and 6.3% for the rear occupants. The most frequently hurt organs are the small intestine (17%), the spleen (16%) and the liver (13%). The most common countermeasures have a good efficiency in the reduction of the abdominal injuries for the adults: the stiffness of the structure of the seats allows decreasing the abdominal injury risk from 54% (driver) to 60% (front occupant), the seatbelt pretensioners decrease also this risk from 90% (driver) to 83% (front passenger).
Driver distraction
(2017)
This report for the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) summarises recent research and knowledge from scientific studies about distracted driving. The report defines what it means to be "distracted" when driving, discusses the impact of distraction on driver behaviour and safety, and what can be done to reduce distracted driving. The focus of distraction discussed here relates to how drivers engage with technology when driving. The report begins with a background to driver distraction, followed by discussion about what is actually meant by driver distraction. It is then considered why humans cannot successfully do two things at the same time, particularly within the context of driving. The subsequent section summarises the scientific research findings to date with regard to driver distraction and technology, and how this affects different types of road user. Recommendations for how driver distraction can be mitigated in the real world and a summary conclude the report. Responses to common questions raised by drivers are presented in Appendix A.
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.
Bankettmaterialien müssen zwei Anforderungen erfüllen, die von verschiedenen Bestandteilen der Böden gewährleistet werden. Aufgrund der Verkehrssicherheit müssen sie eine dauerhaft hohe Tragfähigkeit aufweisen, damit von der Fahrbahn abkommende Fahrzeuge nicht einsinken und verunfallen. Die Tragfähigkeit und Standfestigkeit der Böden wird hauptsächlich durch den Kiesanteil der Böden erreicht. Da im Bereich des Banketts Straßenoberflächenwasser versickert, müssen sie andererseits ein möglichst hohes Schadstoffrückhalte- und -bindevermögen aufweisen, um den Untergrund und das Grundwasser zu schützen. Dies wird durch die Sand- und Feinanteile der Böden erreicht. Bei den bestehenden Bauweisen besteht nach Auffassung einiger Straßenbauverwaltungen der Länder ein Optimierungsbedarf. Im Rahmen dieser Forschungsarbeit sollten diese Bauweisen überprüft und ggf. weiter entwickelt werden, um noch stärker den bau-, als auch den umwelttechnischen Ansprüchen gerecht zu werden. Dabei werden die Bankette aus einem Gemisch von Gesteinskörnungen bzw. rezyklierten Baustoffen der Körnung 0/32 mm mit Feinkorn bzw. Oberboden hergestellt. Geeignete Zusammensetzungen waren durch Untersuchungen im Labor- und Technikumsmaßstab zu ermitteln. 18 Gemische von Gesteinskörnungen und Baustoffen der Körnung 0/32 mm mit unterschiedlichen Feinkorn- bzw. Oberbodenanteilen wurden in Bezug auf ihre Tragfähigkeit (CBR-Versuche) und Durchlässigkeit im Labor untersucht. Unter Berücksichtigung der Laborergebnisse wurden im Technikumsmaßstab Versuche mit vier Mischungen zur Ermittlung der Tragfähigkeit und des Verformungsverhaltens mittels statischen und dynamischen Verformungsmoduln durchgeführt. Basierend auf den Versuchsergebnissen sollte der Feinkornanteil der Bankettmaterialien einen Wert von 15 M.-% nicht übersteigen. Mit solchen Materialien sollte ein Verformungsmodul Ev2 ≥ 60 MN/m2 bzw. Evd ≥ 30 MN/m2 bei einem Verdichtungsgrad von DPr = 100 % sicher erreichbar sein. Falls eine höhere Tragfähigkeit für Bankette erforderlich ist, sollte der Feinkornanteil der Materialien ggf. weiter beschränkt werden.
From an automotive safety occupant protection standpoint, effective occupant restraint requires a system capable of providing non-injurious occupant ride down of anticipated crash forces. This is not only the case for frontal collisions, where occupant restraint is provided primarily by seatbelts and airbags, but is also critical for other crash modes such as side impacts, rear impacts, rollovers, as well as multiple impact events. In the rear impact crash mode, occupant restraint is provided primarily by the seatbacks and to some extent the seatbelts. Foundationally, therefore, what becomes fundamental to the seatback's role in rear occupant protection is its ability to contain the occupant within the seat, preventing occupant ramping, as well as preventing the seat's, and/or its occupant's, dangerous intrusion into the rear occupant's survival space where contact with rear compartment components and/ or rear seated occupants can present a significant injury risk. An analysis is presented of a series of rear impact sled testing conducted by the authors that evaluates the timing, position and extent of the front seatback's reward displacement toward and into the rear occupant compartment as well as consideration of the front seat occupant' ramping potential and its injury potential relative to the rear compartment. Additionally, three other series of testing are presented which assess various seat designs occupant retention capabilities. Lastly, a matched-pair comparison test series is presented which evaluates occupant motion in rear impact with and without use of a typical vehicle body mounted 3-point seatbelt. Discussion of restraint system performance observed in all the testing is included along with ATD biofidelity and thigh-gap considerations. The data collected and presented includes accelerometer instrumentation and high speed video analysis.
Twenty-eight percent of traffic accidents in Japan are rear-end collisions, and of these, 13% are multiple collisions (three or more vehicles and/or roadside objects). A post-crash braking system enables the driver to stop the vehicle in a short distance after a rear-end collision to prevent secondary collisions. In this study, the effectiveness of a post-crash braking system was examined using a drive recorder database. In 64% of rear-end collisions, the driver's braking was interrupted after the collision. The stopping distance was estimated with time data from the drive recorder. We predict that the brake assist would be effective in preventing secondary collisions in 21% of cases.
Whiplash injuries are characterized by the high variability of its symptoms and by the subjectivity of its diagnosis, which sometimes leads to frauds perpetrated by victims of rear-end impacts. It is estimated that whiplash injuries cost annually about 10.000 million Euros in Europe. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the dynamics of the accident in which the victim was involved in the probability of development of whiplash associated injuries. In the presented methodology, first an accident reconstruction is performed where the dynamics of the accident is determined. This is carried out using the software PC-Crash, police and insurance companies' data. Then biomechanical injuries criteria related with whiplash injuries are evaluated. For the evaluation of the probability of having whiplash injuries, the Neck Injury Criterion (NIC) of the victim and the mean acceleration of the vehicle were evaluated. Then, with medical reports, the results of the accident reconstruction are correlated with the reported injuries. Some examples are presented. The results obtained indicate that the study of the dynamics of the road accidents in which the victims were involved could be used as an auxiliary of the prognosis of whiplash injuries and is important for a precise diagnosis of this type of injuries.
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.
Millions of kilometers are driven and recorded by car manufacturers and researchers every year to gather information about realistic traffic situations. The focus of these studies is often the recording of critical situations to create test scenarios for the development of new systems before introducing them into the market. This paper shows a novel Analysis and Investigation Method for All Traffic Scenarios (AIMATS) based on real traffic scenes. It also shows how to get detailed information about speeds, trajectories and behavior of all participants without driving thousands of kilometers at the example of conflict situations with animals. Basis of the AIMATS is the identification of the most relevant locations as "Points of Interest" (POI), the recording of the critical situations and their "base lines" at these POI. This paper presents a new method to identify critical scenarios involving both vehicles and animals as well as preliminary results of a study done in Saxony using this new method.
Zur Sicherung der Leistungsfähigkeit der Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Deutschland soll im Bereich der kollektiven Verkehrsbeeinflussung in Zukunft das Werkzeug des prozessorientierten Qualitätsmanagements genutzt werden. Diese Forschungsarbeit hatte die Erarbeitung eines vollständigen Prozess- und Qualitätsmodells und praxistauglicher Handlungsempfehlungen für die verschiedenen Lebenszyklusphasen von Streckenbeeinflussungsanlagen (SBA) zum Ziel. Zu diesem Zweck wurden diverse Grundlagen zur Gestaltung eines auf SBA bezogenen Qualitätsmanagementsystems herangezogen. Das erarbeitete Prozessmodell umfasst 34 bewertungsrelevante Prozesse in den Lebenszyklusphasen Planung, Bau und Betrieb, einschließlich des unterstützenden Prozesses Wartung und Instandsetzung. Zur Identifikation von Lücken in der Qualitätssicherung der Prozesse wurde eine Fehlermöglichkeits- und -einflussanalyse (FMEA) durchgeführt. Anhand von Expertenwissen wurden Fehler und Fehlerursachen analysiert und die kritischsten Qualitätsprobleme zusammengestellt. Anhand der Ergebnisse des Prozessmodells wurde zur quantitativen Beschreibung der Auswirkungen möglicher Fehler ein Qualitätsmodell entwickelt. Auf Grundlage eines Bayes'schen Netzes wurden die Auswirkungen von Fehlern auf nachfolgende Prozesse im gesamten SBA-Lebenszyklus systematisch abgebildet. Das probabilistische Qualitätsmodell kann dabei außerdem als Diagnose-Werkzeug zur Untersuchung der Fehlerursachen von beobachteten Störungen einer SBA genutzt werden. Im Rahmen der Forschungsarbeit wurden anhand der Ergebnisse des Prozessmodells praxisorientierte, ressourcenschonende Handlungsempfehlungen abgeleitet und in einem Dokument für Planer und Betreiber von Streckenbeeinflussungsanlagen zusammengestellt. Zudem wurde eine Methode zur Abschätzung des Nutzens der Maßnahmen beschrieben, um die erforderlichen Investitionen zur Qualitätssicherung zu begründen. Zukünftige Forschungsarbeiten sollten sich im Zusammenhang mit der Adaption des Qualitätsmodells auf eine konkrete SBA insbesondere mit der Optimierung des Modells in Form von Anpassungen der Modelltopologie beschäftigen. Des Weiteren sollte untersucht werden, ob die in dieser Forschungsarbeit erarbeiteten Ergebnisse auf andere Typen von Verkehrsbeeinflussungsanlagen übertragbar sind.
Im Vorhaben wurde das Verhalten von offenporigen Fahrbahnbelägen in Bezug auf brennbare Flüssigkeiten im Vergleich zu dichten Fahrbahnoberflächen untersucht und analysiert inwieweit die speziellen Eigenschaften von offenporigen Asphalten Auswirkungen auf die Sicherheitsannahmen für risikobasierte quantitative Untersuchungen für Tunnel oder teilgeschlossene Bauwerke aufweisen. Hierzu wurden umfangreiche Versuche an großflächigen Versuchsplatten (80 x 80 cm) mit Deckschichten aus offenporigem Asphalt (PA) und Splitt-Mastix-Asphalt (SMA) sowie ergänzende CFD-Berechnungen durchgeführt. Die Ermittlung des Durchfluss- und Ausbreitverhaltens erfolgte bei konstanter Flüssigkeitsaufgabe auf die Versuchsplatten und Fassung der an den Plattenseiten austretenden Flüssigkeit in Messzylindern. Über diese wurde für die verschiedenen Deckschichten das zeitliche und räumliche Ausbreitungsverhalten analysiert. Die Ermittlung des Einflusses einer Oberflächenneigung erfolgte durch Variation der Ableitversuche mit zwei unterschiedlichen Plattenneigungen. Die Ermittlung des Brandverhaltens erfolgte in zwei Schritten. In einer ersten Versuchsreihe wurden auf die Platten verschiedene zuvor definierte Kraftstoffmengen aufgegeben und anschließend gezündet, so dass bei Brandbeginn beim SMA ein übersättigter und beim PA, je nach Aufgabemenge ein übersättigter, gesättigter oder teilgesättigter Asphalt vorlag. In der zweiten Versuchsreihe erfolgte während des Abbrands ein kontinuierlicher Benzinzufluss. Die Analyse der umfangreichen Daten aus den Versuchsreihen ermöglichte die Bereitstellung detaillierter Eingangsgrößen für die CFD-gestützte Modellierung und Validierung des zeitlichen und räumlichen Ausbreitungs- und Abbrandverhaltens für die betrachteten Fahrbahnoberflächen. In der sich anschließenden Wirkungsanalyse wurden die sich aus der Modellierung ergebenden Auswirkungen der unterschiedlichen Fahrbahnoberflächen (PA und SMA) ermittelt und unter Anwendung des Verfahrens für die Bewertung der Sicherheit von Straßentunneln miteinander verglichen. Der quantitative Sicherheitsvergleich zeigte, dass offenporige Asphaltbeläge in Einhausungs- und Tunnelbauwerken unter risikoorientierten Gesichtspunkten nicht ungünstiger als dichte Fahrbahnbeläge einzustufen sind.
Zur Glättebekämpfung werden im Winter mit Streufahrzeugen Tausalze auf die Straßen gestreut. Hierzu muss das Salz rieselfähig sein. Nach längerer Lagerung verringert sich die Rieselfähigkeit je nach deren Herkunft und Art der Lagerung mehr oder weniger stark. In der TL-Streu und in der in Bearbeitung befindlichen DIN EN 16811-1 ist bisher keine Methode zur Bestimmung der Rieselfähigkeit von Enteisungsmitteln angegeben. Mit den Untersuchungen wurden mehrere in der Literatur aufgeführte Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Rieselfähigkeit miteinander verglichen und davon die Auslaufmethode nach Alfred SONNTAG für die tägliche Routine ausgewählt. Mit dieser Methode wurden 46 Tausalzproben aus verschiedenen Lägern unterschiedlicher Hersteller untersucht und die Ergebnisse mit weiteren physikalischen Parametern wie Korngrößenverteilung, Feuchtegehalt, Schüttdichte, Rütteldichte, spezifische Oberfläche, pH-Wert und dem Gehalt an Antibackmitteln verglichen. Dabei wurden größere Korrelationen zwischen Korngrößenverteilung und Feuchtegehalt mit der Rieselfähigkeit gefunden. Es stellte sich heraus, dass es noch weitere, bisher nicht untersuchte Einflussgrößen geben muss, die sich auf die Zeitverfestigung der Salze auswirken. Für verfestigtes Salz ist die Auslaufmethode nicht mehr anwendbar. Hierzu kann der einachsige Drucktest eingesetzt werden. Mit beiden Methoden wurde Salz untersucht, das sich für vier Wochen in einer Klimakammer mit der Simulation des Wetters eines Jahres befand. Zur weiteren Entwicklung einer Methode zum frühzeitigen Erkennen der Neigung von Salzen zur Zeitverfestigung wird vorgeschlagen, die Fragen zur Gehaltsbestimmung des Antibackmittels Ferrocyanid zu klären, sich der Ermittlung des Einflusses der Oberflächenbeschaffenheit auf die Rieselfähigkeit zu widmen und die vorgeschlagene Nadeldruckmethode zur Bestimmung der Verfestigungen in der Salzschüttung weiter zu entwickeln.