Comparison of the traffic circumstances based on the analysis of traffic accident statistics in Germany, in the United States and in Japan

In order to enable foreseeing or comparing the benefit of safety systems or driver assistance systems in Germany, in the United States and in Japan, the traffic accident databases in those three countries are examined. The variables used are culpable party, collision partner, accident type and injury level, and a method to re-classify the databases for comparison is proposed. The result indicates that single passenger car fatality is the most frequent in Germany and in the United States, while passenger car versus pedestrian is the most frequent fatality scenario in Japan. When the casualty by fatality ratio is focused, the greatest difference is observed in rear-end collisions. The ratio of slight injuries in Japan yields about eighteen times as many as those in Germany, and about eight times as many as those in the United States. (A) Paper to the session "Methodologies of In-Depth-Investigations" 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:
  • AGA, M
  • MOCHIDA, T
• Publication Date: 2010-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12p
• 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 severity; Crashes; Data banks; Fatalities; Mathematical analysis; Statistics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Causes
• Geographic Terms: Germany; Japan; United States
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 6471: Analysis (math); 9003: Cause; 8525: Conference; 8614: Data bank; 8614: Data base; 1602: Fatality; 8125: Germany; 8053: Japan; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 6555: Statistics; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01379750
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Aug 2 2012 9:29AM