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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.
Das von der Generaldirektion (DG) XII der Kommission der EU geförderte Projekt umfasst drei Teile: (1) Eine Literaturstudie über mechanische Prüfungen an Gesteinskörnungen, die ergab, dass bei der Festigkeit der Los Angeles-Versuch als Referenzverfahren für Widerstand gegen Zertrümmerung geeignet ist. (2) Eine Serie von Ringanalysen (1993 bis 1997), die 20 Prüfverfahren zu 21 Eigenschaften von Gesteinskörnungen umfasste, unter Beteiligung von rund 50 europäischen Prüfstellen. Zu 19 Ringanalysen wurden ausführliche Berichte erstellt, die eine Beschreibung des Ringversuchs, eine statistische Auswertung einschließlich Versuchsergebnissen und die gewonnenen Präzisionsangaben enthielten. Die Berichte schlugen für einige Verfahren Verbesserungen vor und ermöglichten jeder teilnehmenden Prüfstelle, die eigene Leistung zu kontrollieren. Ein Ringversuch zur Petrographie wurde beschreibend ausgewertet. Ein Überblick über die Prüfverfahren mit dem Versuch einer Wertung ihrer Präzision wurde gegeben: Verfahren mit zufriedenstellender Genauigkeit wurden ebenso aufgezeigt wie solche, bei denen noch Schwierigkeiten vorhanden sind. Faktoren, die zur Streuung der Ergebnisse beitragen, wurden diskutiert und mögliche Verbesserungen vorgeschlagen. (3) Eine Studie über Probenahme unter unterschiedlichen Bedingungen untersuchte den Probenahmefehler, der durch Schwankungen der Produktion sowie durch die Probenahme selbst verursacht wird. 22 Probenahmen, von Transportbändern und verschiedenartigen Halden, die meisten in der Praxis vorkommenden Fälle umfassend, wurden durchgeführt. Die Proben unterschieden sich in Größtkorn, Kornabstufung und Art der Gesteinskörnung. An ihnen wurden insgesamt 575 Siebungen und 958 Ausleseversuche ausgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass, wenn der Probenahmefehler den Fehler des Prüfverfahrens nicht überschreiten soll, Sammelproben aus mindestens 15 Einzelproben bestehen sollten. Im Falle der Probenahme vom Band, die zu bevorzugen ist, stellt eine große Einzelprobe eine annehmbare Alternative dar, sofern die Produktion die Zusammensetzung der Körnung gut kontrolliert.
Die Kommunikation zwischen Fahrzeugen und Infrastrukturkomponenten steht vor der Einführung in Europa. Dieser Beitrag stellt zunächst die grundlegende Technologie zum Austausch von Nachrichten und ein Pilotprojekt vor, innerhalb dessen eine sichere Fahrzeug-zu-Infrastruktur Kommunikation konzipiert und praktisch erprobt wird. Darauf aufbauend werden Sicherheitsfragestellungen von Infrastrukturkomponenten beleuchtet und ein Einblick in das Schlüsselmanagement sowohl für Fahrzeuge als auch Infrastrukturkomponenten gegeben.
Trauma management (TM) covers two types of medical treatment: the initial one provided by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and a further one provided by permanent medical facilities. There is a consensus in the professional literature that to reduce the severity and the number of road crash victims, the TM system should provide rapid and adequate initial care of injury, combined with sufficient further treatment at a hospital or trauma centre. Recognizing the important role of TM for reducing road crash injury outcome, it was decided, within the EU funded SafetyNet project, to develop road safety performance indicators (SPIs) which would characterize the level of TM systems" performance in European countries and enable country comparisons. The concept of TM SPIs was developed based on a literature study of performance indicators in TM, a survey of available practices in Europe and data availability examinations. A set of TM SPIs was introduced including 14 indicators which characterize five issues such as: availability of EMS stations; availability and composition of EMS medical staff; availability and composition of EMS transportation units; characteristics of the EMS response time, and availability of trauma beds in permanent medical facilities. Basic information on the TM systems was collected in close cooperation with the national expert group. A dataset with TM SPIs for 21 countries was created. It was demonstrated that the countries can be compared using selected TM SPIs. Moreover, a more general comparison of the TM systems' performance in the countries is possible, using multiple ranking and statistical weighting techniques. By both methods, final estimates were received enabling the recognition of groups of countries with similar levels of the TM system's performance. The results of various trials were consistent as to the recognition of countries with high or low level of the TM systems" performance, where in grouping countries with intermediate levels of the TM system's performance some differences were observed. The SafetyNet project's practice demonstrated that data collection for estimating TM SPIs is not an easy task but is realizable for the majority of countries. The TM SPIs" message is currently limited to the availability of trauma care services. Further development of the TM SPIs should focus on characteristics of actual treatment supplied, based on combined police and medical road crash related databases.
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.
Despite the steadily declining number of pedestrian fatalities and injuries in most European countries during recent decades, pedestrian protection is still of great importance in the European Union as well as in Germany. This is because they still constitute a large proportion of road user casualties and are more likely to suffer serious and fatal injuries than most other road users. In 1999 only car occupants suffered more fatal injuries than pedestrians in Germany. In December 1998, EEVC WG 17 completed their review and updating of the EEVC WG 10 pedestrian test procedure that made it possible to evaluate the protection afforded to pedestrians by the front of passenger cars in an accident. Within the scope of this procedure, four different impactors are used representing those parts of the body which are injured very often and/or very seriously in vehicle-pedestrian-collisions. In a project executed by IKA and BASt, a small family car was tested according to the EEVC WG 17 test procedure. Afterwards modifications to the car were carried out in order to improve the pedestrian protection provided by the vehicle design. There were certain restrictions placed on the level of modifications undertaken, e.g. only minor modifications to vehicle styling and to the vehicle structures, which provide passenger protection. The redesigned vehicle was tested again using the WG 17 test procedure. The test results of the modified vehicle were compared with those of the standard vehicle and evaluated. The results show that considered measures for pedestrian protection in many areas of the vehicle front structure and the use of innovative techniques can lead to a significant reduction of the loads of pedestrians at an acceptable expense.
In the project SECMAN " SECurity MANual " a simple four-step procedure for the identification of critical road infrastructures, assessment of these infrastructures regarding various man-made threats and the determination of effective protection measures was developed. These methodologies are summarized and combined into a comprehensive best-practice manual which allows for a trans-national structured and holistic security-risk-management approach for owners and operators of road infrastructures in Europe. This paper presents the developed methodology starting from the assessment procedures of a network's criticality over an object's attractiveness and vulnerability to the selection process of appropriate protection measures.
The first stage of the work has been to collate information on bridge assessment from the participating countries. In the later stages, the aim is to provide guidelines that reflect the current best practices, a methodology that will allow for future development and sufficient flexibility to accommodate variations in national priorities as the process of harmonisation is pursued. The following tasks fall within the scope of the project: (1) a review of current procedures and standards used for bridge assessment in Europe; (2) the development of models for taking into account the bridge specific traffic conditions and material properties; (3) the use of reliability methods based on a probabilistic approach for bridge assessment including the use of measurements for updating the reliability of structural elements; and (4) the provision of recommendations for methods and procedures that can be adopted for the assessment module of the management framework highlighting where further development will be beneficial.
Improving the security of critical road infrastructure is a major task for owners and operators of tunnels and bridges in the European TEN-T Network (Trans-European Networks of Transport) (European Parliament and Council 1996). Up to now, there has not been a systematic procedure for identifying and assessing critical infrastructure objects and selecting appropriate protection measures. The EC FP7 project SeRoN for the first time presents an innovative methodology in order to support road owners and operators in handling this complex task. This paper describes the methodology and project results in detail by giving an introduction into its practical application.
FERSI ist eine internationale Gemeinschaft von Forschungsinstituten, die das gemeinsame Interesse an der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zur Verbesserung der Verkehrssicherheit verbindet. Nach über 10-jähriger, erfolgreicher Zusammenarbeit ist FERSI bestrebt, weiterhin einen wichtigen Beitrag der Forschung zur Lösung der Verkehrssicherheitsprobleme in Europa zu gewährleisten. Die Hauptziele von FERSI sind der internationale Erfahrungsaustausch, die Kooperation der Forschungsinstitute, die wissenschaftliche Unterstützung bei der ständigen Verbesserung der Straßenverkehrssicherheit sowie die Entwicklung und Durchführung gemeinsamer europäischer Forschungsprojekte zur Lösung von Straßenverkehrssicherheitsproblemen.