Benefit of in-depth accident investigations and the need for advanced safety systems

To prevent anybody from the harm caused by traffic accidents is the duty of all parts of society. In order to continue the successful way of fatality reduction, it is necessary to make best use of any potential to reduce the number of traffic accidents. It is pointed out that challenges lie in the fields of improved traffic management systems, improved and innovative active safety systems, and - in the long term - communication systems. But targets have to meet sparse resources by cost-efficient and intelligent planning and realization. That means that targets have to be capable (they have to address real world issues), efficient (cost-effective) and enforceable (legal aspects have to be considered). At a short term range, it is expected that advances in systems connected to the vehicle are of outstanding importance. For the legislator it is important to support this development, but at the same time to watch out for negative side effects. Accident data, and in particular in-depth data, are regarded to have a great benefit to fulfill this job. The importance of the development of new intelligent vehicle technology has also been noticed by other organizations, like Euro NCAP and in the long run, NCAP intends to test advanced vehicle technologies in practice. There are various projects - running worldwide - in order to develop testing protocols to assess the performance of integrated safety systems. Furthermore, there are various national initiatives aiming at gaining harmonized and standardized results with respect to performance requirements of advanced vehicle technologies or to set up objective tests, for example. At a long term perspective the introduction of communication systems seems to be promising. Field studies are currently exploring the possibilities of such innovations. Paper to the Keynote Session of the 4th International Conference on ESAR "Expert Symposium on Accident Research", 16th to 18th September 2010 in Hannover. For the covering abstract of the conference, see ITRD D366702.

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• Authors:
  • REICHELT, P
• Publication Date: 2010-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 3p
• Monograph Title: Assessing the field relevance of testing protocols and injury risk functions employed in new car assessment programs
• Serial:
  • BERICHTE DER BUNDESANSTALT FUER STRASSENWESEN. UNTERREIHE FAHRZEUGTECHNIK
  • Issue Number: 77
  • Publisher: WIRTSCHAFTSVERLAG NW
  • ISSN: 0943-9307

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crash reconstruction; Driver support systems; Economic efficiency; Evaluation; Impact studies; Legislation; On the scene crash investigation; Prevention; Safety; Safety equipment; Vehicle safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 8525: Conference; 8743: Driver assistance system; 237: Economic efficiency; 5911: Efficiency; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 9112: Impact study; 1556: Legislation; 1611: On the spot accident investigation; 1621: Reconstruction (accid); 1665: Safety; 1445: Vehicle safety device
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01379740
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Aug 2 2012 9:29AM