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Das Unfallgeschehen der Radfahrer wird analysiert. Ein erheblicher Anteil der Unfälle ereignet sich ohne Beteiligung motorisierter Fahrzeuge als Alleinunfall, bei Kollisionen mit Fußgängern oder Radfahrern. Viele Alleinunfälle werden nicht angezeigt, daher gibt es eine große Dunkelziffer. Das Schwergewicht der unfallbeteiligten Radfahrer liegt bei Kindern/Jugendlichen und bei Senioren. Der Anteil der Radfahrer als Hauptverursacher liegt bei ca. 47%. Hauptunfallstellen sind Kreuzungen und Einmündungen mit je über 28 %. Auf gesonderten Radwegen ist das Radfahren nur wenig sicherer als auf Straßen ohne Radwege; hinsichtlich der Unfallschwere ist das Bild uneinheitlich. Das Unfallgeschehen an Knotenpunkten wird genauer beschrieben.
The European Union has set a target to reduce all road fatalities (over 40,000) with 50% in 2010. This target percentage remained unchanged with the introduction of the ten new member states within the EU as by May 1st, 2004. According to Eurostat, 34% of all fatalities in 1998 in the, then, fifteen states of the European Union were the result of single vehicle collisions. This represents over 14,000 lives lost each year of which many can likely be saved through better roadside infrastructure design. The challenge for road safety professionals is to find methods and design strategies that help to reduce these casualties. Procedures for full-scale vehicle crash testing of guard rails were first published in the US in 1962. Present European regulation is mainly based on these procedures and later developments. Since then the vehicle fleet has changed considerably. Due to the complexity of the actual safety problem the numerical simulation approach offers a good opportunity to evaluate the different parameters involved in road safety, such as infrastructure properties, vehicle type, vehicle occupants and injuries. The ideal situation would be that simulation tools are coupled or integrated and all involved effects would be related. At the moment this is not the case yet, but initiatives are taken and a new virtual era has started. This paper offers a method looking at two components that encompass the driving environment: the car and the guardrail. As part of the EC-funded project, RISER (Roadside Infrastructure for Safer European Roads) a multi body simulation program study is carried out to determine sensitivities of some parameters in car to guardrail collisions and gives insides in performance of the car with passive safety equipment, the guardrail and the interaction of these objects with each other. By offering a set of methods that includes these two aspects and their intertwining relations, more confidence can be gained in actually reducing fatalities due to single vehicle collisions with, or due to, roadside furniture. Reducing the number of fatalities of single vehicle crashes would contribute greatly to the stated goal of reducing casualties altogether.
Various kinds of demerit point systems have been developed and implemented in European countries, aimed at tackling repeat offences in road transport by acting as a deterrent and providing sanctioning. The impact of a demerit point system on the number of crashes is often reported to be significant, but temporary. The objective of the EU BestPoint project was to establish a set of recommended practices that would result in a more effective and sustainable contribution of demerit point systems to road safety. A high actual chance of losing the licence and a high perceived chance of losing the licence are basic prerequisites for the effective operation of demerit point systems. For measures applied within the context of a demerit point system, a four-step-approach is recommended: warning letter, driver improvement course, licence withdrawal, rehabilitation course. Further recommendations concern issues like points and offences, e.g. which offences should lead to points, target groups, and the administration of demerit point systems. The final result of the EU BestPoint project is a handbook (van Schagen & Machata, 2012) which provides a concise overview of all recommended practices. The presentation/paper outlines how sustainable safety improvements can be achieved if national demerit point systems are implemented and maintained according to the recommended practices. In addition, potential further steps towards an EU-wide demerit point system (cross-border exchange on points and/or offences) are presented.
The practicability and feasibility of using alcohol ignition interlock devices has been discussed for more than 15 years in Germany. Thereby, judicial issues have been treated conversely. Consensus exists about the fact that the voluntary use of alcohol ignition interlocks is in all areas of possible use recommendable. Great reservation is shown concerning the operation of the devices for DUI (Driving Under Influence) offenders. Main doubts regard the missing legal base for application in such cases and potential circumvention attempts while the need of supportive psychological measures is unquestioned. In 2011, the Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs entered this topic in its newly released traffic safety programme as a matter of future research. Almost in parallel, the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) launched an alcohol ignition interlock project for DUI offenders. The study at hand aimed at developing a comprehensive programme concept for the use of alcohol ignition interlocks as additional measure to psychological rehabilitation for DUI offenders. Expert surveys serve as input for the establishment of a widely accepted innovative concept for nationwide implementation. By means of a pilot trial, the added value of using a combination of structural (alcohol interlock) and individual (psychological measure) intervention for DUI offenders to the existing countermeasure system should be studied. In addition, selection criteria for DUI offenders eligible for future programme participation should be defined. The majority of the experts evaluate the introduction of alcohol ignition interlocks as a good option to enhance traffic safety. The possibility of early psychological rehabilitation is emphasized in the process. Those who do not approve alcohol ignition interlock usage estimate the amount of offenders eligible for such programmes too small. The survey also revealed that legal regulations for issuing an alcohol interlock restricted licence to DUI offenders is missing. Hence, a possible amendment to the German Driving Licencing Regulation was developed within the project. Consultations with the Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and the Ministry of Justice disclosed the need for a change of the road traffic law before an amendment to the existing regulations may be put into force. At least, the person responsible in the Ministry of Justice developed a proposal for the law section that needs revision. All in all, it became clear within the process of the project that a field trial in Germany is still a distant vision. Nevertheless, all institutions involved are motivated to deal with the matter further on in order to pave the way for a soon start of the pilot trial.
In Germany, courses for the restoration of the fitness to drive after licence revocation are provided for different offender groups (alcohol, drug and demerit point offenders). Providers of these courses are by law required to prove the effectiveness of the applied course programs. For the evaluation of effectiveness, the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) established specific "Reference Values" in 2002. The objective of the study at hand was to collect valid data in order to renew the old-established Reference Values from 2002. Additionally, data collection aimed at initializing Reference Values for drug offender programs. Over 66,000 drivers were analysed regarding their traffic probation in the three years after licence reinstatement. Offenders were assigned to an offender group (alcohol, drugs and demerit point offenders) based on the reason for prior licence revocation. Different indicators were used as criteria for re-offending: new alcohol or drug records, culpable accident involvement and repeated licence revocation. For each of the offender groups, frequency distributions regarding these indicators were calculated. Frequencies of recidivism are highest for the group of demerit point offenders. Compared to the Reference Values of this group from 2002, frequencies of re-offending increased. Conversely, re-offence frequencies of alcohol offenders are halved compared to the data from 2001. The analysis of the re-offence frequencies of drug offenders reveals an equal amount of re-offenders as in the alcohol offender group. The collected data serve as a good base for renewal of the old-established Reference Values and may be applicable as comparative data for future evaluations The results reveal significant differences between recent data and earlier studies. These may occur due to improvements of the applied programmes, but also due to situational changes, e.g. increased enforcement levels and expansion of the catalogue of offenses which lead to demerit points.
The use of alcohol interlocks for DUI offenders is widespread around the world. in North America and Australia alcohol interlocks are core elements in the countermeasure system against DUI recidivism. Based on a European experience exchange hosted by the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) in October 2013, key features of European alcohol interlock programmes are illustrated. In addition, key findings from international alcohol interlock research are presented. They point towards a need for an accompanying rehabilitative measure in order to achieve long-lasting behavioural changes in the offender. Data from the interlock recorder can be used as predictor for recidivism risk, but also as objective data to aid counselling. Finally, an example of an accompanying rehabilitative measure, which was specifically developed for interlock programmes within a BASt project, is given.
Im Oktober 2007 wurde die Rügenbrücke, eine der längsten Hochbrücken Europas, für den Verkehr freigegeben. Der Beitrag befasst sich mit den Erfahrungen, die bei Planung und Bau dieses bemerkenswerten Bauwerks gemacht wurden, insbesondere hinsichtlich der vielen bautechnischen Innovationen bei dem Schlüsselbauwerk des Brückenzuges, der 570 m langen Schrägseilbrücke über den Ziegelgraben. Eine der wesentlichen Erstanwendungen für Deutschland betraf die Ausführung der Schrägseile mit Litzenbündeln des Systems DYNA Grip der SUSPA DSI. Wegen des aus Gründen des Vogelschutzes erforderlichen Mindestdurchmessers der Seile von 12 cm waren vollverschlossene Seile aus ingenieurtechnischen und wirtschaftlichen Gründen benachteiligt, sodass sich der Bauherr für Seile aus Litzenbuendeln entschied. Die Schrägseilbrücke über den Ziegelgraben wird schon jetzt als modernes Wahrzeichen der Stadt Stralsund empfunden. Sie passt sich gestalterisch hervorragend in die Umgebung ein und beeinträchtigt auch nicht die zum Weltkulturerbe zählende Altstadt von Stralsund. Besonders besticht das Bauwerk durch seine Leichtigkeit und die Einpassung der Formen der Bauteile, zum Beispiel wegen der tropfenfoermigen Gestaltung des Pylons und der Pfeiler, in das maritime Umfeld. Da die verwendeten Schrägseil-Litzenbündel noch nicht allgemein bauaufsichtlich zugelassen sind, kam der Qualitätssicherung für die Seile in allen Stufen der Planung, Fertigung, Montage und Bauwerksprüfung eine herausragende Bedeutung zu. Der zugehörige Qualitätssicherungsplan wird im Bericht ausführlich mit den wesentlichen \"schrägseilspezifischen\" Maßnahmen beschrieben. Schwingungen und Ermüdungsbeanspruchungen der Seile durch Fahrverkehr und Wind liessen sich durch einen mehrstufigen, kontinuierlich verdichteten Planungsprozess unter Nutzung von Versuchsdaten und Messungen am Bauwerk wirkungsvoll beherrschen. Aus Sicht der Bauwerksprüfung bestanden anfänglich Bedenken wegen der Erreichbarkeit der bis in 80 m Höhe über dem Brückendeck gespannten Schrägseile und der nicht direkt zugänglichen Litzen innerhalb des Hüllrohres sowie der Verankerungen. Daher wurden alle verfügbaren Prüfverfahren für Schrägseile an der Rügenbrücke getestet. Daraus ergab sich eine Prüfmatrix aus Prüfverfahren, Prüfmittel und Prüfumfang für die gesamte Nutzungsdauer. Zusammenfassend wird festgestellt, dass bei der Ziegelgrabenbrücke Schrägseile aus Litzenbündeln eine den vollverschlossenen Seilen ebenbürtige Bauart darstellen.
According to an investigation in March 2008 by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS) about 14,000 truck parking spaces are missing in the near of motorways in Germany. Beside constructional enlargement of rest areas, intelligent traffic systems ought to be used to detect automatically the occupancy rate of rest areas and to provide better demand management and also to achieve an increase of capacity of truck parking spaces. The essay describes the newly developed control procedure "Compact parking", which is currently under development by German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt). The method achieves that a number of trucks are parking in a compact way, side by side and without a driving lane between them. With the help of dynamic displays above the parking rows, the drivers receive the needful information to park their vehicle in a parking row, in which other trucks have the same or an earlier departure time. This system is able to increase the rest area capacity in short-term, more quickly than constructional enlargement of rest areas.
Intelligent transportation systems have a high potential to optimise traffic flow, to increase road traffic safety and to reduce environmental pollution. Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI) systems help to achieve these targets. Beside verbal radio announcements the most used RTTI service is the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) as a part of the Radio Data System (RDS). TMC messages support drivers in their choice of efficient routes or prepare them to cope with situations on the route ahead. The main focus of the paper is on the quality of TMC messages in Germany. After a brief overview of RTTI stakeholders in Germany and their role in the German public traffic information chain the following literature analysis summarizes the state-of-the-art on traffic information quality. Then the paper gives an overview about methodology and first results of an ongoing project on traffic information quality that has been initiated by the Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt, German Federal Highway Research Institute) in 2008. The paper describes a concept how to check all processing iterations of the traffic information chain and occurring failures. A cause-effect-analysis forms the basis of this concept to get an idea which reasons (= process) lead to which measurable effect (= quality indicator). The paper demonstrates the principle with the pre-process of the Location Code List (LCL), which is the major basis for message coding since the LCL describes all locations that can be named in a TMC message.
Verschiedene Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung der Luftqualität in Städten waren bisher bei der Verminderung von Stickoxiden nur bedingt erfolgreich. Interessant ist, ob der Einsatz der Photokatalyse hier weiterhelfen kann. Photokatalytische Anwendungen wurden schon in einigen Pilotstudien untersucht, zum Beispiel an Straßen beziehungsweise Modell-Canyons sowie in Tunneln. Teilweise wurden international sehr positive Ergebnisse erzielt, geichzeitig liegen aus anderen internationalen Projekten Ergebnisse unterhalb der Messgenauigkeit vor. Die vorgestellten Ergebnisse werden anhand verschiedener Variablen betrachtet und die erwartbare Atmosphärenrelevanz diskutiert. Zusammengefasst wird, dass basierend auf bekannten Feldmessungen für die Photokatalyse eine mittlere NOx-Reduktion von nur wenigen Prozent (in Hauptstraßenschluchten) zu erwarten ist. Dieses Potenzial muss mit anderen Maßnahmen verglichen werden (Kosten/Nutzenanalyse). Materialien müssen vor ihrem Einsatz in der Atmosphäre sorgfältig auf ihre Aktivität untersucht werden. Erfüllen die Oberflächen die Voraussetzungen, um als aktiv eingestuft zu werden, ist ihr Einsatz zur Luftreinhaltung klar zu empfehlen.