viaMotorrad – Can motorcycle safety be measured?

viaMotorrad – Kann Motorradsicherheit gemessen werden?

In a joint effort, two leading Austrian academic institutions, with expertise in motorcycle dynamics and single-track vehicle research, have developed and instrumented a highly developed motorcycle for testing and measurement tasks related to traffic accident research and analysis. This motorcycle probe vehicle (MoProVe) is based on a high-end street bike sponsored by KTM, which represents the state-of-the-art in current motorcycle technology. Within the viaMotorrad project, the vehicle was upgraded with two independent high-performance measurement systems by the Technical University of Vienna and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. Apart from GPS, HD-Video and IMU-data, CAN-bus data can be directly collected from the motorcycle. The project viaMotorrad, funded by the Austrian Road Safety Fund (VSF), aims for a semi-automated risk assessment of roads, performed by a probe vehicle. In this project, the vehicle is a one-of-a-kind motorcycle that can collect all relevant driving dynamics data needed for comprehensive road safety investigations. Road sections which are considered high-risk for motorcycles should be detected by the data. The goal is to act and plan measures before accidents occur in order to decrease the number of fatalities in riders. Based on the results of this project, future research should include the development of a motorcycle-specific Hazard Map of the road network. With the collected data, not only traffic safety investigators could improve their activities, but also road operators and bikers themselves. First results show that data collected with the MoProVe can provide insights into linking riding dynamic data to infrastructure data of the road network. The analysis started with the transformation of the collected time-based data to the needed path-based data. Current work includes the investigation of data thresholds, in order to establish the difference between considered risky and normal road segments. The final goal is to implement preventative measures to reduce motorcycle accidents. (A)

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  Institut für Zweiradsicherheit (ifz) e.V.

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• Authors:
  • Schwieger, K
  • Saleh, P
  • Hula, A
  • Ecker, H
  • Neumann, M
• Publication Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 468-82
• Monograph Title: Sicherheit - Umwelt - Zukunft. Tagungsband der 12. Internationalen Motorradkonferenz 2018
• Serial:
  • Forschungshefte Zweiradsicherheit
  • Issue Number: 18
  • Publisher: Institut für Zweiradsicherheit (ifz) e.V.
  • ISSN: 0175-2626

Subject/Index Terms

• ITRD Terms: 1663: Accident black spot; 8007: Austria; 8525: Conference; 8623: Data acquisition; 9115: Detection; 8125: Germany; 6136: Measurement; 1221: Motorcycle; 1752: Motorcyclist; 9129: Risk assessment; 1053: Road network; 6255: Test
• Subject Areas: I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01730754
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• ISBN: 978-3-923994-23-6
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Feb 10 2020 9:57AM