ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF PEDESTRIAN COLLISIONS BY BIKE

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
С.Б. Наумов ◽  
М.М. Исаев
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Pedestrian Collisions

Статья посвящена рассмотрению проблемы совершаемых велосипедистами наездов на пешеходов, обусловленной противоречивыми положениями, регламентирующими порядок учета дорожно-транспортных происшествий, а также недостаточно проработанным правовым статусом велосипедиста как участника дорожного движения. The article is devoted to the consideration of the problem of pedestrian collisions made by cyclists, due to contradictory provisions governing the procedure for accounting for road accidents, as well as the insufficiently developed legal status of a cyclist as a road user.

scholarly journals The system analysis and mathematical modeling road accidents in the metropolis

2019 ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
A. G. Davidovsky ◽  
A. M. Linnik
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Traffic Incidents ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
Pedestrian Collisions

The article presents the results of correlation analysis of the causes of road accidents in such a modern metropolis as Minsk. Has been identified the most frequent causes of road accidents, including pedestrian collisions caused by drivers, collisions at intersections, incidents at controlled and unregulated pedestrian crossings, as well as on the roadway. The dependence of transport incidents on the time of day, day of the week and month of the year was investigated. Shows the periods when road traffic incidents occur from 3.00 to 6.00 h, from 15.00 to 18.00 and from 21.00 to 24.00 on Monday, Friday and Sunday in January, March, June, September, October and November. Methods of correlation and multiple regression analysis can be the basis of preventive traffic safety management in a modern metropolis.

scholarly journals Method to Assess and Enhance Vulnerable Road User Safety during Impact Loading

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Ptak
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Head Injuries ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Interesting Insight ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Vulnerable Road User ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vulnerable Road Users

Every year approximately 1.35 million people die as a consequence of road accidents. Almost 50% of road fatalities are vulnerable road users (VRUs). This research reviews the history of traffic safety for VRUs, presents an interesting insight into the statistics and evaluates the current legislation in Europe for pedestrians, cyclists, children on bicycle-mounted seats and motorcyclists in terms of impact situations and applied criteria. This enabled the author to have a better perspective on how the VRUs’ safety is currently verified. Furthermore, the VRU safety requirements are contrasted with the author’s research, which is mainly focused on VRU’s head biomechanics and kinematics. Finally, a new coherent method is presented, which encompasses the sub-groups of VRUs and proposes some improvements to both the regulations as well as technical countermeasures to mitigate the injuries during an impact. This study highlights the importance of numerical methods, which can serve as a powerful tool to study VRUs’ head injuries and kinematics.

scholarly journals The Effects of Roadside Hazards on Road Accident Severity

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Budzyński ◽  
Kazimierz Jamroz ◽  
Łukasz Jeliński ◽  
Anna Gobis
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Safety Equipment ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
The Road ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Safety Strategies ◽  
Accident Severity

Abstract The risk of becoming involved in an accident emerges when elements of the transport system do not operate properly (man – vehicle – road – roadside). The road, its traffic layout and safety equipment have a critical impact on road user safety. This gives infrastructural work a priority in road safety strategies and programmes. Run-off-road accidents continue to be one of the biggest problems of road safety with consequences including vehicle roll-over or hitting a roadside object. This type of incident represents more than 20% of rural accidents and about 18% of all road deaths in Poland. Mathematical models must be developed to determine how selected roadside factors affect road safety and provide a basis for new roadside design rules and guidelines.

Active luminous elements in the high visibility clothing and EU conformity assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 573 (6) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Łężak ◽  
Agnieszka Greszta
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Conformity Assessment ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Normative Requirements ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
The Individual

The insufficient, individual visibility of employees in various work environments and road traffic participants (e.g. in the night conditions, during bad weather), is still one the main causes of road accidents involving pedestrians, and collisions between people and machines. Both in professional and non-professional activities, the use of high visibility (warning) clothing and reflective elements seems to be the only way to increase the individual visibility of a human. A dynamically developing market of various types of non-incadescent light sources with small size, often flexible, emitting light with different colors and photometric parameters allows the application of these luminous elements to the warning clothing. The article presents examples of electroluminescent light sources (LED diodes, El wire, El tape, El panel) and optical fibers applied in the warning clothing. The analysis of the current detailed normative requirements and the legal status regarding the use of warning clothing with active light sources indicates that they are not sufficient to carry out the tests and EU conformity assessment of this type of protective clothing.

scholarly journals Experiences and Challenges in Fatality Reduction on Polish Roads

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Jamroz ◽  
Marcin Budzyński ◽  
Aleksandra Romanowska ◽  
Joanna Żukowska ◽  
Jacek Oskarbski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Difficult Challenge ◽  
National Road ◽  
Vision Zero

According to the UN, road safety is the key to achieving sustainable development goals, yet the complexity of how road accidents happen makes this a difficult challenge leaving many countries struggling with the problem. For years, Poland has infamously been one of the EU’s top countries for road-accident fatality rates. Despite that, it has made significant progress in the last thirty years with a fatality reduction of more than 60%. A number of factors have contributed to this result: improving the socioeconomic situation, improving road safety measures, changing road user behaviour and changing national road safety programmes. This article presents Poland’s approach to road safety and, in particular, Vision Zero, adopted in 2005. Poland’s road safety changed over the years as the country learned from its successes and failures. Tools for forecasting fatalities were developed and used to identify the main factors that have helped to reduce deaths. An assessment was conducted on how Poland could implement Vision Zero until 2050 under different road safety scenarios. It was found that in order to achieve the EU’s goal for 2030, Poland must reduce fatalities to 1200. While it is an ambitious goal, it is also an important step towards zero fatalities in 2050.

scholarly journals The illusion of absence: how a common feature of magic shows can explain a class of road accidents

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vebjørn Ekroll ◽  
Mats Svalebjørg ◽  
Angelo Pirrone ◽  
Gisela Böhm ◽  
Sebastian Jentschke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Visual Illusion ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
Immediate Experience ◽  
Blind Spots

AbstractThe purpose of the present note is to draw attention to the potential role of a recently discovered visual illusion in creating traffic accidents. The illusion consists in a compelling and immediate experience that the space behind an occluding object in the foreground is empty. Although the illusion refers to a region of space, which is invisible due to occlusion (a blind spot), there is evidence to suggest that it is nevertheless driven by visual mechanisms and that it can be just as deceptive and powerful as ordinary visual illusions. We suggest that this novel illusion can make situations involving blind spots in a road user's field of view even more dangerous than one would expect based on the lack of visibility by itself. This could be because it erroneously makes the road user feel that (s)he has actually seen everything there is to see, and thus has verified that the blind spot is empty. This hypothesis requires further testing before definitive conclusions can be drawn, but we wish to make researchers and authorities involved in the analysis of traffic accidents and on-the-spot crash investigations aware of its potential role in order to encourage registration of relevant data and facilitate further research.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF ATTRACTING TO ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY PERSONS WHO DRIVE ANIMAL-DRAWN VEHICLES FOR OFFENSES IN THE FIELD OF ROAD SAFETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Evheniia Pylypenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road User ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Road ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Traffic Rules ◽  
Administrative Responsibility

The article is devoted to the study of problematic issues of bringing to administrative responsibility of persons driving animal-drawn transport for road safety offenses. The legal status of persons driving animal-drawn transport, normative legal acts enshrining the rights and obligations of these persons (the Law of Ukraine «On Road Traffic», the Rules of the Road, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from 10.10.2001 № 1306, and also Order of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine «On approval of the Rules of labor protection in agricultural production» from 29.08.2018 № 1240). Based on the analysis of domestic legislation establishing administrative liability for violation of traffic rules by persons driving animal-drawn transport, proposals for current amendments to the legislation of Ukraine in the field of road safety to eliminate certain gaps in the prosecution of persons, who drive animal-drawn transport. Today in the Rules of the Road there is no definition of «animal-drawn transport», which creates problematic issues in the understanding of the definition, as well as the definition of «road user» does not cover the concept of a person who driving animal-drawn transport. It also creates certain problems in bringing individuals to administrative responsibility. Therefore, in a scientific article, it is proposed to supplement the current legislation of Ukraine in the field of road safety with a new definition of «animal-drawn transport», and place it in section 1 «General Provisions» of the Rules of the Road, as well as to include persons driving animal-drawn transport in the category of road users, make changes to the definition of «road user» in order to overcome certain problematic issues of bringing to administrative responsibility for violation of traffic rules that caused damage to vehicles, cargo, roads, streets, railway crossings, road structures or other property. In case of making the proposed changes to the Rules of the Road of persons driving animal-drawn transport, it will be possible to bring such persons to administrative responsibility under Art. 124 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses. Today, law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, which carry out their activities in the field of road safety, do not have such an opportunity.

scholarly journals Road traffic safety in Ukraine: state and development prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Olesia IVANENKO ◽  
Ivan PONOMARENKO
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
The State ◽  
Road User ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
Safe Level ◽  
Definition Of

Introduction. The issue of road traffic safety has been studied by many modern scientists. However, despite the research, this issue remains relevant to this day, both theoretically and practically. This is due to the fact that the concept of road traffic safety is not currently enshrined in law, and there is no unanimity among scientists on its content. Moreover, the relevance of the practical component is evidenced by the fact that over the past three years a number of important regulations in the field of road traffic safety and procedures for their implementation have been developed. The purpose of the paper is to determine the state of road traffic safety in Ukraine. In accordance with the goal, the main objectives of this study are to formulate a definition of “traffic”, “road traffic safety”, outlining their elements; determining the state of road traffic safety in Ukraine and further development trends, establishing the main directions of implementation of state policy in the field of road traffic safety. Results. Covering the issue of road safety, it should be noted that the current legislation of Ukraine does not provide a definition of this concept, but in 2016 there was an attempt to legislate both the legal category of “road traffic safety” and a number of closely related to it. Thus, the authors of the draft Law on Road Traffic and Safety defined traffic as “the process of traffic on roads and other places where it is not prohibited by the draft law”, and road traffic safety as “a state of the road system, due to which the appropriate level of protection of road users from road accidents and their negative consequences is determined and achieved”. It should be emphasized that road traffic safety is achieved through the application of appropriate measures of organizational, administrative, socio-economic and technical nature, which are enshrined in regulations and which are aimed at ensuring the proper and safe level road traffic safety for all its participants. It should be noted that neither the Ukrainian legislator nor the state executive bodies reduce the state of danger on the roads of Ukraine, so they are constantly developing appropriate programs and taking measures to increase the level of road traffic safety. Thus, in 2020, a state program was approved, the main goal of which is to reduce the level of accidents on the roads and the severity, first of all, of the socio-economic consequences of road accidents. Conclusion. According to the legislation of Ukraine, road traffic safety should be understood as a set of socio-economic and organizational-technical measures to ensure road traffic safety and road user, prevention of road traffic accidents and elimination or minimization of their negative consequences.

scholarly journals Systems Engineering Information Model of Vehicle-Pedestrian Collisions

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-168
Author(s):  
Hristo Uzunov ◽  
Plamen Matzinski ◽  
Silvia Dechkova ◽  
Nikolay Dimov
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Motor Vehicle Collisions ◽  
Vehicle Collisions ◽  
Engineering Information ◽  
Computational Procedures ◽  
Pedestrian Collisions

Abstract Engineering analysis of motor vehicle collisions as a complex type of research combines the application of scientific approaches from different fields: mechanics, mathematics, structural design, etc. This implies accurate and unambiguous determination of input data and their application in computational procedures for finding solutions in iterative mode. Hence, the reason to apply the specific research method of information modelling in the present study to one of the main types of road accidents, namely the pedestrian-car collision.

scholarly journals Smart alert for smart transportation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.7) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
K Kishore Kumar ◽  
Atmakuri Sravan Kumar ◽  
Sunkari Amarnadh Gupta ◽  
Sure Venkata Naga Parvesh
Keyword(s):  
Road Accident ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Hospital Emergency ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
General Rules

Road accident is mostly happened to a road user, though they happen quite often. The most unfortunate thing is that we don't learn from our mistakes on road. Most of the road users are quite well aware of the general rules and safety measures while using roads but it is only the laxity on part of road users, which cause accidents and crashes. Main cause of accidents and crashes are due to human errors. Many of the road accidents occurs in the human errors by overriding, drink and drive and don’t follow safety precautions on roads. Various national and international researchers have found these as most common behavior of Road drivers, which leads to accidents [4].So, we came up with an application to alert hospital emergency and cops. all the users can easily handle this application when accident emergency occur. In the same way we can save life of a person by occur road accident.

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