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Within this paper different European accident data sources were used to investigate the causations and backgrounds of road traffic accidents with pedestrians. Analyses of high level national data and in-depth accident data from Germany and Great Britain was used to confirm and refine preliminary accident scenarios identified from other sources using a literature review. General observations made included that a high proportion of killed or seriously injured pedestrian casualties impacted by cars were in "dark" light conditions. Seven accident scenarios were identified (each divided into "daylight" and "dark" light conditions) which included the majority of the car front-to-pedestrian crash configurations. Test scenarios were developed using the identified accident scenarios and relevant parameters. Hypothetical parameters were derived to describe the performance of pedestrian pre-crash systems based on the assumption that these systems are designed to avoid false positives as a very high priority, i.e. at virtually all costs. As result, three "Base Test Scenarios" were selected to be developed in detail in the AsPeCSS project. However, further Enhanced Test Scenarios may be needed to address environmental factors such as darkness if it is determined that system performance is sensitive to these factors. Finally, weighting factors for the accident scenarios for Europe (EU-27) were developed by averaging and extrapolation of the available data. This paper represents interim results of Work Package 1 within the AsPeCSS project.
At IAM RoadSmart we share the excitement about autonomous cars " who wouldn't! However over half of the drivers we polled supported concentrating on making drivers safer " among IAM RoadSmart members it was 70%. Driverless cars are still years away but delivering safer drivers can help reduce death and injury from tomorrow. Governments, academics and car makers need to work hard to convince sceptical British and American drivers that autonomous cars can deliver the benefits promised such as a 90% plus reduction in road deaths.
Although the number of road accident casualties in Europe (EU27) is falling the problem still remains substantial. In 2011 there were still over 30,000 road accident fatalities. Approximately half of these were car occupants and about 60 percent of these occurred in frontal impacts. The next stage to improve a car's safety performance in frontal impacts is to improve its compatibility. The objective of the FIMCAR FP7 EU-project was to develop an assessment approach suitable for regulatory application to control a car's frontal impact and compatibility crash performance and perform an associated cost benefit analysis for its implementation. This paper reports the cost benefit analyses performed to estimate the effect of the following potential changes to the frontal impact regulation: • Option 1 " No change and allow current measures to propagate throughout the vehicle fleet. • Option 2 " Add a full width test to the current offset Deformable Barrier (ODB) test. • Option 3 " Add a full width test and replace the current ODB test with a Progressive Deformable Barrier (PDB) test. For the analyses national data were used from Great Britain (STATS 19) and from Germany (German Federal Statistical Office). In addition in-depth real word crash data were used from CCIS (Great Britain) and GIDAS (Germany). To estimate the benefit a generalised linear model, an injury reduction model and a matched pairs modelling approach were applied. The benefits were estimated to be: for Option 1 "No change" about 2.0%; for Option 2 "FW test" ranging from 5 to 12% and for Option 3 "FW and PDB tests" 9 to 14% of car occupant killed and seriously injured casualties.
Estimation of the benefits for the UK for potential options to modify UNECE Regulation No. 95
(2010)
The side impact problem in Europe remains substantial. UK data shows that between 22% and 26% of car occupant casualties are involved in a side impact, but this rises to between 29% and 38% for those who are fatally injured. This indicates the more injurious nature of side impacts compared with frontal impacts. The European Enhanced Vehicle safety Committee (EEVC) has performed work to address the side impact issue since 1979. As part of its continuing work, it has recently investigated potential options for regulatory changes to improve side impact protection in cars further. To support this work the UK undertook an analysis to estimate the benefit for potential options to modify UNECE Regulation 95. The analysis used the UK national STATS19 and detailed Co-operative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) accident databases. Of the potential options reviewed, it was found that the addition of a pole test offered the greatest benefit.
Mit dem Forschungsvorhaben wird das Ziel verfolgt, die Dauerhaftigkeit von Asphalt mit der SATS-Prüfung zu untersuchen. Es handelt sich um ein Klimatisierungsverfahren, bei dem Feuchtigkeit, Wärme und Druck auf Asphalt-Probekörper einwirken und mittels des dynamischen Spaltzugversuchs, oder auch einer anderen Vergleichsprüfung, untersucht werden. Daraus wird der SATS-Dauerhaftigkeitsindex bzw. SATS-Verhältnis ermittelt. Im Rahmen dieser Forschungsarbeit soll überprüft werden, ob der SATS-Prüfung für die in Deutschland üblichen Asphaltmischungen anwendbar ist und somit grundlegende Erfahrungen gesammelt werden, so dass eine aussagekräftige Bewertung möglich ist. Basierend auf dem Entwurf der europäischen Prüfnorm (prEN 12697-45) werden mit diesem Prüfverfahren verschiedene Asphaltmischungen (AC 16 B und AC 32 T mit Bindemitteln 10/20, 50/70, 30/45, 10/40-65 A und 25/55-55 A und drei Gesteinsarten) untersucht. Für die SATS-Prüfung wurde der dynamischer Spaltzugversuch und der direkter Zugversuch verwendet. Anschließend wurden die Ergebnisse aus der SATS-Prüfung mit den Ergebnissen aus dem Flaschen-Rollverfahren verglichen. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass alle ermittelten Ergebnisse unterhalb der Anforderung des englischen Regelwerks liegen, d.h. der SATS-Dauerhaftigkeitsindex, des geprüften Asphalts mit dem Bindemittel 10/20 ist kleiner als 80 %. Obwohl sich tendenziell die höchsten SATS- Dauerhaftigkeitsindexe, die mittels dynamischem Spaltzugversuch ermittelt wurden, bei Verwendung des Bitumens 10/20 zeigen, sind bei den anderen vier verwendeten Bindemitteln keine eindeutigen Differenzierungen zwischen den Ergebnissen zu identifizieren. Die ermittelten Werte aus den Versuchen mit dem direkten Zugversuch haben eine tendenziell stärkere Differenzierung der Ergebnisse gezeigt. Bei der Betrachtung der Ergebnisse der SATS-Prüfung im Vergleich zum Flaschen-Rollverfahren ist kein signifikanter Zusammenhang erkennbar, ausser bei den Ergebnissen mit Verwendung des Bitumens 10/20.
Analysis of pedestrian leg contacts and distribution of contact points across the vehicle front
(2015)
Determining the risk to pedestrians that are impacted by areas of the front bumper not currently regulated in type-approval testing requires an understanding of the target population and the injury risk posed by the edges of the bumper. National statistics show that approximately 10% of all accident casualties are pedestrians, with 20% to 30% of these pedestrian casualties being killed or seriously injured. However, the contact position across the front of the bumper is not recorded in national statistics and so in-depth accident databases (OTS, UK and GIDAS, Germany) were used to examine injury risk in greater detail. The results showed that some injury types and severities of injuries appear to peak around the bumper edges. Although there are sometimes inconsistencies in the data, generally there is no evidence to suggest that the edges of the bumper are less likely to be contacted or cause injury.