Towards Improved Protection of Vulnerable Road Users

The paper aims at reducing injury risk and an overall increase in pedestrian passive safety by proposing pedestrian friendly vehicle design. Statistical data are used to identify the most vulnerable population group also regarding the economic losses caused by deaths or medical treatment. An age dep...

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Published in:Transactions on transport sciences 2011-04, Vol.4 (1), p.1-10
Main Authors: Hynčík, L., Čechová, H., Maňas, J., Kovanda, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
anthropology
optimization
safety
simulation
Vulnerable road user
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Summary:The paper aims at reducing injury risk and an overall increase in pedestrian passive safety by proposing pedestrian friendly vehicle design. Statistical data are used to identify the most vulnerable population group also regarding the economic losses caused by deaths or medical treatment. An age dependent anthropometric approach enables the development of specific virtual pedestrian biomechanical human body models. The developed virtual pedestrian models are explored to analyse the influence of vehicles in pedestrian impact on injury risk caused by a vehicle industrial demonstrator using numerical simulation. The analysed injury criteria serve for a comparison of vehicle frontal part design variants.
ISSN:1802-971X
1802-9876
1802-9876
DOI:10.2478/v10158-011-0001-0