Scope and patterns of under-reporting of vulnerable road users in official road accident statistics

[Knee injuries of vulnerable road users in road traffic].

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of knee injuries among vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. METHODS Two different periods (years 1985-1993 and 1995-2003) were compared. Inclusion criteria were furthermore Abbreviated Injury Scale knee 2-3 (AIS(knee)). Technical analysis assessed the type of collision, direction and speed as well...

O18: Vulnerable Road Users - Is There a Way to Protect? 

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Protecting Vulnerable Road Users from Injury

In its latest global assessment of road safety, the World Health Organization (WHO) reminded us that half of the 1.2 million fatalities occurring each year on the world’s roads concern vulnerable road users (VRUs), with children and elderly being overrepresented among victims [1]. ‘‘Vulnerable road user’’ is a term applied to those most at risk in traffic, i.e. those unprotected by an outside s...

Autonomous Emergency Braking for Vulnerable Road Users

A simple, but realistic, model of an autonomous emergency brake (AEB) system was studied. Using Matlab, the model was applied to 543 car‐to‐pedestrian and 607 car‐to‐bicyclist real‐world collisions gathered from the highly detailed German In‐Depth Accident Study Pre‐Crash Matrix (GIDAS PCM) and weighted for representativeness. All collisions were to the front of the car. The aim was ...

Microscopic simulation as an evaluation tool for the road safety of vulnerable road users