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Die in den gültigen Richtlinien enthaltenen Einsatzgrenzen sind so restriktiv, dass mit ihnen der Bau von Gehwegen nur noch in Ausnahmefällen gerechtfertigt werden kann. Diese Einsatzgrenzen sollten überprüft und, falls erforderlich, neu gefasst werden. In einer Beispielsammlung wurde untersucht, welche Bauformen für Gehwege verwendet werden und nach welchen Kriterien dieses erfolgt. Anhand einer Unfalluntersuchung auf Straßen ohne Gehwege wurde die Häufigkeit und Art der Unfälle zwischen Kraftfahrzeugen und Fußgängern, die entlang der Straße gehen, untersucht. Danach kommt es zu ca. 0,31 Unfällen pro 106 Begegnungen zwischen Kraftfahrzeugen und Fußgängern. Die meisten Unfälle ließen sich vermeiden, wenn alle Fußgänger entsprechend den Verkehrsregeln auf der linken Seite gingen. Besonders gefährdet sind Fußgänger bei Beginn der Abenddämmerung. Aus einer Kosten/Nutzen-Analyse wurden anhand wirtschaftlicher Kriterien Einsatzgrenzen für Gehweganlagen abgeleitet. Als Kostenelement dienten dabei die Baukosten und als Nutzenelement die monetär bewerteten Ersparnisse durch vermiedene Unfälle infolge von Gehwegen. Für geringe Fußgängerverkehrsstärken, für die die Anlage eines eigenen Gehweges unwirtschaftlich ist, kann die leichte bituminöse Befestigung des Banketts einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Sicherheit der Fußgänger leisten. Den Fußgängern bietet man damit eine attraktive Alternative zum Gehen auf der Fahrbahn.
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.
The fact that ADAC Air Rescue handles approximately 4,000 road accident missions every year gave rise to set up an accident research programme for which ADAC Air Rescue provides its data. This data is of initial informational quality and will be supplemented by data from the police, experts, fire brigades as well as hospitals and forensic institutes. Although the number of cases is still rather low, certain tendencies can be identified. The causes for most accidents occur when joining or intersecting traffic, followed by speeding in road bends and tailgating. Many accidents involve HGV rear end collisions, often causing serious injuries, considerable damage and technical problems for the rescue operations. With regard to the various impact types, it has become obvious that most of the extremely serious injuries are inflicted during a passenger car side impact. In addition, access to and removal of trapped passengers is becoming more and more complicated, partly due to the increasing use of high-strength materials, and rescue operations tend to be more time consuming.
This study aimed at comparing head Wrap Around Distance (WAD) of Vulnerable Road User (VRU) obtained from the German in-depth Accident Database (GIDAS), the China in-depth Accident Database (CIDAS) and the Japanese in-depth Accident Database (ITARDA micro). Cumulative distribution of WAD of pedestrian and cyclist were obtained for each database (AIS2+) showing that WAD of cyclists were larger than the ones of pedestrians. Comparing three regions, the 50%tile WAD of GIDAS was larger than that of both Asian accident databases. Using linear regression that might predict WAD of pedestrians and cyclists from Impact speed and VRU height, WADs were calculated to be 206cm/219cm (Pedestrian/Cyclist) for GIDAS, 170cm/192cm for CIDAS and 211cm/235cm for ITARDA. In addition, this study may be helpful for reconsideration of WAD measurement alignment between accident reconstruction and test procedures.
Since 2008, the authors inspected fatal traffic accidents on the spot every year, with the cooperation of Toyota police station in Aichi pref. In the jurisdiction, numbers of fatal accidents were 18 in 2008, 12 in 2009, 14 accidents in 2010, and 16 in 2011. We here report the results of our analysis of information obtained by detailed inspection for those that occurred from 2008 to 2010. We focused on vehicle-to-pedestrian accidents, which accounted for about 45% of all accidents in 2008. Because many accidents occurred on residential roads not far from pedestrians" homes, it was revealed that the decrease of the collision speed by traffic calming such as humps and zone speed management, was highly effective. On the other hand, pedestrian detection technologies seemed to be also effective as a countermeasure on vehicle side. Every pedestrian position against a vehicle was clarified and TTC (Time to Collision) was calculated provisionally. Pedestrian accidents in intersections were also examined. Among the intersection pedestrian accidents within the jurisdiction, compared with the national average in Japan, the ratio of intersections without a signal and the ratio without a pedestrian crossing were high. According to the comparison of the Japanese traffic accident patterns between 2001 and 2008, pedestrian accidents during turning right and turning left did not decrease much. For elderly drivers, these accidents occurred very often. Finally, single vehicle accidents were analysed with the accident pattern analysis methods used above. There were high numbers of single vehicle accidents against object on single roads. Although fatal accidents against guardrails decreased, the numbers of fatal accidents against a utility pole and a sign pole were nearly constant. As for the impact with narrow width objects such as utility poles, the fatality rate was very high, and countermeasures of both road infrastructure and vehicles seem to be effective.
Immediate user self-evacuation is crucial in case of fire in road tunnels. This study investigated the effects of information with or without additional virtual reality (VR) behavioural training on self-evacuation during a simulated emergency situation in a road tunnel. Forty-three participants were randomly assigned to three groups with accumulating preventive training: The control group only filled in questionnaires, the informed group additionally read an information brochure on tunnel safety, and the VR training group received an additional behavioural training in a VR tunnel scenario. One week later, during the test session, all participants conducted a drive through a real road tunnel in which they were confronted with a collision of two vehicles and intense smoke. The informed and the behaviourally trained participants evacuated themselves more reliably from the tunnel than participants of the control group. Trained participants showed better and faster behavioural responses than informed only participants. Interestingly, the few participants in the control group who reacted adequately to the scenario were all female. A 1 year follow-up online questionnaire showed a decrease of safety knowledge, but still the trained group had somewhat more safety relevant knowledge than the two other groups. Information and especially VR behavioural training both seem promising to foster adequate self-evacuation during crisis situations in tunnels, although long term beneficial behavioural effects have to be demonstrated. Measures aiming to improve users/ behaviour should take individual difference such as gender into account.
Die Klinik für Frührehabilitation und Geriatrie, Westküstenklinikum Heide ist Bestandteil eines Kooperationsnetzwerks und wirkt am Erhalt der Mobilität und Autonomie älterer Verkehrsteilnehmer im Landkreis Dithmarschen mit. Die Zusammenarbeit mit Seniorenbeiräten, Landesverkehrswacht, Fachdiensten, Polizei-Dienststellen, Ärzten und Psychologen sowie Fahrlehrern ermöglicht eine breite Datenerfassung zum Thema ältere Kraftfahrer, insbesondere zu ihrem Unfallgeschehen.
Die europäischen Länder, die ein Programm zur Erhöhung der Verkehrssicherheit eingeführt haben, weisen in der Regel einen gesteigerten Rückgang an Getöteten und Verletzten auf. Im Vordergrund dieser Programme stehen neben der Reduktion der Unfälle die Umsetzbarkeit, die Finanzierbarkeit, die politische und soziale Akzeptanz sowie die Kosteneffizienz. Im Anschluss an die Erörterung der Merkmale einer erfolgreichen Verkehrssicherheitsarbeit werden zunächst beispielhaft die Planziele der Programme in Finnland (im Jahr 2010 weniger als 250 Getötete) und in Österreich (Reduktion der Getöteten um 50 % und eine Verminderung der Unfälle mit Personenschaden um 20 % bis 2010) vorgestellt. Die bisherige Entwicklung der Unfallzahlen wird auf je einer Grafik veranschaulicht. Anschließend werden das Hauptziel der Europäischen Kommission, die Halbierung der Zahl der Verkehrstoten 2001 bis 2010, sowie die Entwicklung der Zahlen von 1990 bis 2005 beziehungsweise 2010 (Zielvorgabe) dargestellt. Eine weitere vergleichende Grafik gibt die Zahl der Verkehrstoten in den Jahren 1995 und 2004 in allen Ländern der Europäischen Union (EU) wieder. Schließlich werden noch verschiedene Bemühungen der World Health Organisation (WHO) erwähnt.
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.
As the official German catalogue of accident causes has difficulty in matching the increasing demands for detailed psychologically relevant accident causation information, a new system, based on a "7 Steps" model, so called ACASS, for analyzing and collecting causation factors of traffic accidents, was implemented in GIDAS in the year 2008. A hierarchical system was developed, which describes the human causation factors in a chronological sequence (from the perception to concrete action errors), considering the logical sequence of basic human functions when reacting to a request for reaction. With the help of this system the human errors of accident participants can be adequately described, as the causes of each range of basic human functions may be divided into their characteristics (influence criteria) and further into specific indicators of these characteristics (e.g. distraction from inside the vehicle as a characteristic of an observation-error and the operation of devices as an indication for distraction from inside the vehicle. The causation factors accordingly classified can be recorded in an economic way as a number is assigned to each basic function, to each characteristic of that basic function and to each indicator of that characteristic. Thus each causation factor can be explicitly described by means of a code of numbers. In a similar way the causation factors based on the technology of the vehicle and the driving environment, which are also subdivided in an equally hierarchical system, can be tagged with a code. Since the causes of traffic accidents can consist of a variety of factors from different ranges and categories, it is possible to tag each accident participant with several causation factors. This also opens the possibility to not only assign causation factors to the accident causer in the sense of the law, but also to other participants involved in the accident, who may have contributed to the development of the accident. The hierarchical layout of the system and the collection of the causation factors with numerical codes allow for the possibility to code information on accident causes even if the causation factor is not known to its full extent or in full detail, given the possibility to code only those cause factors, which are known. Derived from the systematic of the analysis of human accident causes ("7 steps") and from the practical experiences of on-scene interviews of accident participants, a system was set in place, which offers the possibility to extensively record not only human causation factors in a structured form. Furthermore, the analysis of the human causation factors in such a structured way provides a tool, especially for on-scene accident investigations, to conduct the interview of accident participants effectively and in a structured way.
With an ever rising human life expectancy the share of elderly people in society is constantly rising. This leads to the fact that at the same rate the share of people with age related diseases such as dementia and poor eyesight taking part in traffic will rise and therefore traffic accidents caused by this group of people due to the disease will play an ever greater role. This Situation will be among the future challenges of road safety work. At present this study displays specific characteristics of accidents caused by elderly car drivers (aged 65 or higher) based on the analysis of the German In-Depth Accident Study GIDAS. Herein almost 1000 elderly car drivers were identified as accident participants in the years 2008 to 2011. The focus of this study lies on identifying special types of accidents which are caused by elderly drivers and on characterizing these types with the information gathered on scene and by interviewing the participants. The main evidence analyzed is the knowledge about the accident locality, the trajectories of the participants as well as the reasons for the occurrence of the accidents. Furthermore personal information such as the personal condition before the accident and driving purposes is used to identify patterns of contributing circumstances for accidents caused by elderly traffic participants.
Within the COST Action TU1101 the working group WG 1 is dealing with acceptance criteria and problems in helmet use while bicycling concerning conspicuity, thermal stress, ventilation deficits and other potential confounding. To analyze the helmet usage practice of bicyclists in Europe a questionnaire was developed in the scope of working group 1 to collect relevant information by means of a field study. The questionnaire consists of some 66 questions covering the fields of personal data of the cyclist, riding und helmet usage habits, information concerning the helmet model and the sensation of the helmet, as well as information on previous bicycle accidents. A second complementary study is conducted to analyze if the use of a bicycle helmet influences the seating geometry and the posture of cyclists when riding a bicycle and if the if the helmet vertically limits the vision. For this purpose cyclists with and without helmets were photographed in real world situations and relevant geometrical values such as the decline of the torso, the head posture of the upper vertical vision limit due to the helmet were established from the photos. The interim results of the field studies which were conducted in Germany by the Hannover Medical School are presented in this study. Some 227 questionnaires were filled out, of which 67 participants had used a helmet and 42 of the 227 participants have had a bicycle accident before. For the analysis of the riding position and posture of the cyclist over 40 pictures of riders with a helmet and over 240 pictures of riders without a helmet were measured concerning the seating geometry to describe the influence of using a bicycle helmet. Some results in summary: From the riders interviewed with the questionnaire only 11% of the city bike riders and 12% of the mountain bike riders always used the helmet, while 38% of the racing bike riders and 88% of the e-bike-riders always used the helmet. The helmet use seems not to change the sensation of safety of cycling compared to the use of a car. The arguments for not wearing a helmet are mostly stated to be the short distance of a trip, high temperatures or carelessness and waste of time. The reasons for using a helmet are stated to be the feeling of safety and being used to using a helmet. Being a role model for others was also stated to be a reason for helmet use. Concerning the sensation of the helmet 9% of the riders reported problems with the field of vision when using a helmet, 57% saw the problem of sweating too much, and 10% reported headaches or other unpleasant symptoms like pressure on the forehead when using the helmet. The analysis of the seating posture from the pictures taken of cyclists revealed that older cyclists generally have a riding position where the handle bar is higher than the seat (0-° to 10-° incline from seat to handlebar), while younger riders had a higher variance (between -10-° decline and 20-° incline). Further, elderly riders and riders with helmets seem to have a more upright position of the upper body when cycling. The vertical vision limit due to the helmet is determined by the front rim of the helmet (mostly the sun shade). Typical values here range from 0-° (horizontal line from the eye to the sun shade) to 75-° upwards, in which elderly riders tend to have a slightly higher vertical vision limit possibly due to the helmet being worn more towards the face.
An increased use of bicycles comes along with an increased number of bicycle accidents. Bicycle accidents are more frequent than recorded by the police. To evaluate the real number of bicycle accidents during 12 months in Münster, Germany, injuries were collected by the Police and in each emergency unit anonymously. 2,153 patients had to be treated in a hospital, nearly triple the number of accidents that were registered by the police. Beside fractures of the upper extremities with major surgery, traumatic brain injuries were the leading cause for hospital admission. Bicycle helmet use can reduce traumatic brain injuries and the related number of deaths and hospital admissions. Laws on bicycle helmet might decrease the use of bicycles and therefore the reduction of positive health benefits. Other methods of accident prevention may lead to positive effects as helmet legislation as well, while having no reduction in bicycle use.
Within the process of integrating passenger airbags in the vehicle fleet a problem of compatibility between the passenger airbag and rear-facing child restraint systems was recognised. Especially in the US several accidents with children killed by the passenger airbag were recorded. Taking into account these accidents the deactivation of a present passenger airbag is mandatory if a child is carried in a rear-facing child restraint system at the front passenger seat in all member states of the European Union. This rule is in force since the deadline of 2003/20/EC at the latest. In the past a passenger airbag either could not be disabled or could only be disabled by a garage. Today there are a lot of different possibilities for the car driver himself to disable the airbag. Solutions like an on/off-switch or the automatic detection of a child restraint system are mentioned as an example. Taking into account the need for the deactivation of front passenger airbags two types of misuse can occur: transportation of an infant while the airbag is (still) enabled and transportation of an adult, while the airbag is disabled, respectively. Within a research project funded by BASt both options of misuse were analysed utilising two different types of surveys amongst users (field observations and interviews, Internet-questionnaires). In addition both analysis of accident data and crash tests for an updated assessment of the injury risk caused by the front passenger airbag were conducted. Both surveys indicate a low risk of misuse. Most of the misuse cases were observed in older cars, which offer no easy way to disable the airbag. For systems, which detect a child seat automatically, no misuse could be found. The majority of misuses in cars equipped with a manual switch were caused by reasons of oblivion. Also the accident analysis indicates a minor risk of misuse. From more than 300 cases of the GIDAS accident sample that were analysed, only 24 children were using the front passenger seat in cars equipped with a front passenger airbag. In most of these cases the airbag was deactivated. When misuse occurred the injury severity was low. However, when analysing German single accidents the fatality risk caused by the front passenger airbag became obvious. From the technical point of view, there were important changes in the design of passenger airbags in recent years. Not only volume and shape were modified, but also the mounting position of the entire airbag module was changed fundamentally. Even if these findings do not allow obtaining general conclusions, a clear tendency of less danger by airbags could be identified. For future vehicle development a safe combination of airbags and rear faced baby seats seems to be possible in the long term. This would mean that both types of misuse could be eliminated. For parents an easier use of child seat and car would be the result.
Ziel des Forschungsprojektes "Griffigkeitsprognose an offenporigen Asphalten (OPA)" ist die Weiterentwicklung und Optimierung der Messverfahren und die Entwicklung einer Vorgehensweise zur Griffigkeitsprognose für OPA. Hierzu wurde das Projekt aufgeteilt in den Projektteil 1 "Bestandsaufnahme an vorhandenen Strecken" und den Projektteil 2 "Neue Baumaßnahmen". Im ersten Projektteil wurden die Grundlagen für die Griffigkeitsprognose erarbeitet und Erfahrungen mit dem Seitenkraftmessverfahren (SKM) auf offenporigen Asphalten gewonnen. Hierzu wurden Streckenabschnitte von Bundesfernstraßen zur Untersuchung ausgewählt, die bereits mehrere Jahre unter Verkehr lagen. Ziel des zweiten Projektteils ist die Verifizierung und Weiterentwicklung der im ersten Teil hergeleiteten Vorgehensweise zur Griffigkeitsprognose für offenporige Asphaltdeckschichten. Hierzu wurden Streckenabschnitte ausgewählt, die zu Projektbeginn mit OPA erneuert bzw. instandgesetzt worden sind. Diese Streckenabschnitte wurden für einen Zeitraum von vier Jahren beobachtet. Zur Feststellung des Nullzustandes wurden unmittelbar vor oder nach der Verkehrsfreigabe Bohrkerne entnommen und Messungen mit dem Skid-Resistance-Tester (SRT) durchgeführt. An den Bohrkernen und an Walzsegmentplatten, die anhand von Rückstellproben hergestellt wurden, erfolgten Griffigkeitsprognosen nach dem Polierverfahren Wehner/Schulze (PWS). Die Ergebnisse der bauvertraglichen SKM-Abnahmeprüfungen ergänzten die Datenbasis. Nach zwei und vier Jahren Verkehrsbelastung erfolgten weitere SKM-Messungen, SRT-Messungen sowie Bohrkernentnahmen für PWS-Messungen. Anhand der so gewonnenen Datenbasis wurden die Griffigkeitsentwicklungen dokumentiert und die Ergebnisse der unterschiedlichen Messverfahren vergleichend ausgewertet. In Voruntersuchungen zum Verfahren PWS wurden Einflüsse auf die Präzision aus der Lagerung und Montage der Probekörper in die Prüfeinrichtung untersucht. Probekörper mit deutlichem Bindemittelüberschuss und solche mit künstlichen Gesteinskörnungen zeigten dabei deutliche Veränderungen während längerer Lagerungsdauer. Desweiteren konnte gezeigt werden, dass der Einfluss der Probenvorbehandlung (Sandstrahlen) auf die Ergebnisse der Prognoseprüfung ab einer Beanspruchung von circa 45.000 Überrollungen zu vernachlässigen ist. Hinsichtlich der Prognose der Griffigkeit mit dem PWS-Verfahren wurde festgestellt, dass ein Endpolierwert nach circa 180.000 Überrollungen erreicht wird. Die Prognosekurven der verschiedenen Streckenabschnitte zeigen dabei einen sehr ähnlichen Verlauf, wenn auch auf verschiedenen Griffigkeitsniveaus. Signifikante Abhängigkeiten von der Wahl der Gesteinsart, Bindemittelart oder Mischgutart konnten dabei nicht festgestellt werden. Ebenso sind keine Unterschiede zu erkennen zwischen Bohrkernen und den Walzsegmentplatten. Mithilfe der PWS- und SRT-Messungen konnte der deutlich griffigkeitsmindernde Einfluss des Bindemittelüberschusses unmittelbar vor bzw. nach der Verkehrsfreigabe sowie die weitere Griffigkeitsentwicklung dokumentiert werden. Wie auch schon die Ergebnisse ähnlicher Forschungsprojekte gezeigt haben, gelingt der unmittelbare Bezug der PWS-Überrollungen zur realen Verkehrsbelastung nicht. Die Angabe eines Endpolierwertes und evtl. die qualitative Beurteilung der Prognosekurve sind daher für die Prognose entscheidend. Desweiteren wurden Texturaufnahmen mit dem T3D-Messystem (Prinzip der Streifenprojektion) und einem Digitalmikroskop gemacht. Für die Herstellung eines Zusammenhanges von Griffigkeit und Textur stellten sich die aus der Textur abgeleiteten Rauheitskenngrößen nur bedingt geeignet dar. Die Parameter Flächen- und Kantenschärfe zeigen einen deutlichen Zusammenhang zu den gemessenen Griffigkeiten. Die Formulierung dieser Zusammenhaenge ist Teil eines laufenden Forschungsprojektes. Zur Beantwortung der Frage, ob die Einführung von OPA-Deckschichten auf BAB einen Einfluss auf das Unfallgeschehen hat, wurde die Analyse des ersten Projektteils fortgeführt. Hierzu wurde die Unfallentwicklung der OPA-Streckenabschnitte mit der Unfallentwicklung auf Kontrollstrecken, die andere Deckschichtarten aufweisen, verglichen. Sowohl auf den OPA-Strecken als auch auf den Kontrollstrecken ist eine rücklaeufige Unfallentwicklung eingetreten. In der Summe zeigt sich, dass die offenporigen Asphaltdeckschichten keinen negativen Einfluss auf das Unfallgeschehen haben.
Accidents with vulnerable road users require special attention within the road safety work because these accidents are often accompanied with severe injuries. Thus In 2006 at least 6200 Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) riders were killed in road crashes in the EU 25 representing 16% of the total number of road deaths while accounting for only 2% of the total kilometers driven. For the prevention of accidents with VRU above all the knowledge of the causes of the accidents is of special importance. This study is based on the methodology of the German In-Depth Accident Study GIDAS. Within GIDAS extensive data on various fields of accidentology are collected on-scene from road traffic accidents with injuries in the Hannover and Dresden area. Using a well defined sample plan the collected data is highly representative to the whole German situation (Brühning et al, Otte et al). The need of in-depth accident causation data in accident research led to the development of a special tool for the collection of such data called ACASS (Accident Causation Analysis with Seven Steps), which was implemented in the GIDAS methodology in 2008 and described by Otte in 2009.
Es wird über Methoden und Ergebnisse der jährlichen Ermittlung der volkswirtschaftlichen Kosten, die infolge von Straßenverkehrsunfällen entstehen, berichtet. Personen- und Sachschäden bei Straßenverkehrsunfällen verursachten 1999 in Deutschland volkswirtschaftliche Kosten von insgesamt rund 69 Milliarden DM und lagen damit erwa 1 Milliarde DM über den Kosten des Vorjahres. Die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen berechnet diese Kosten getrennt für Personen- und Sachschäden. Durch Personenschäden sind Unfallkosten von fast 38 Milliarden DM entstanden, während die Kosten durch Sachschäden bei Straßenverkehrunfällen über 31 Milliarden DM betrugen.
Die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen ermittelt jährlich die Kosten, die infolge von Straßenverkehrsunfällen entstanden sind. Dabei werden alle Unfallfolgen berücksichtigt, die zu Kosten oder Wertschöpfungsverlusten führen. Insgesamt beliefen sich die Personen- und Sachschäden bei Straßenverkehrsunfällen im Jahr 2000 auf 35,6 Milliarden DM. Obwohl die Anzahl der Getöteten und schwer Verletzten seit Jahren zurückgeht, folgen die Unfallkosten dieser Entwicklung nicht. Den Rückgängen bei den Kosten durch Personenschäden steht ein deutlicher Anstieg der Sachschadenskosten gegenüber. Im Beitrag wird zusätzlich auf die Entwicklung der Reproduktions- und Ressourcenausfallkosten bei den Personenschäden sowie auf die Altersstruktur der Unfallopfer eingegangen. Die gestiegenen Sachschadenskosten schlagen sich in den Aufwendungen der Versicherungen für Kraftfahrzeug-Schadensfälle nieder. Abschließend werden die Kostensätze für Personenschäden und Sachschäden aufgeführt, die der Berechnung durch die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen zugrunde liegen.
Die Autoren berichten über die volkswirtschaftlichen Kosten, die infolge von Straßenverkehrsunfällen in Deutschland entstehen. Die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen ermittelt diese Kosten jährlich. Personen- und Sachschäden bei Straßenverkehrsunfällen verursachten im Jahr 2002 in Deutschland volkswirtschaftliche Kosten von insgesamt 33,8 Milliarden Euro. Die Personenschäden hatten hieran einen Anteil von 50,4 Prozent, die Sachschäden von 49,6 Prozent.