Marcus Wisch

Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen | BAST · Automotive Engineering

The presence and performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) has increased over last years. Systems available on the market address also conflicts with vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists. Within the European project PROSPECT (Horizon2020, funded by the EC) improved VRU ADAS systems are developed and tested. H...

A promising approach to prevent road traffic accidents between passenger cars and cyclists is the development of driver assistance systems. To develop such systems with maximum effectiveness in road traffic, car-to-cyclist accidents have to be analysed from the car driver's point of view to gain insight into the situations with which the drivers we...

Zum Jahresende 2017 findet die 11. VDI-Tagung Fahrzeugsicherheit in Berlin statt. Traditionell wird der gesamte Themenkomplex der integralen Sicherheit adressiert. Wie alle zwei Jahre haben wir jedoch auch für diese Tagung ein Fokusthema ausgewählt, das im Rahmen von Active Sessions und Diskussionsrunden detaillierter behandelt werden soll. / Seit...

This report provides an overview and an in-depth understanding of the characteristics of road traffic crashes involving vehicles (here focussing on passenger cars) and vulnerable road users (VRUs, i.e. pedestrians, cyclists, riders of mopeds, e-bikes or scooters), primarily in European countries. Several crash databases including international, nat...

This deliverable presents the overall process of use case definition for PROSPECT and the associated test catalogue. The document has been issued in the scope of WP3 “System Specifications”, more specifically in task T3.1. “Target VRU Scenarios for PROSPECT” and task T3.5. “Test scenario specification”. The objective of WP3 of PROSPECT is to specif...

Objective: Autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems fitted to cars for pedestrians have been predicted to offer substantial benefit. On this basis, consumer rating programs-for example, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP)-are developing rating schemes to encourage fitment of these systems. One of the questions that needs to be...

Objective: The objective of the current study was to estimate the benefit for Europe of fitting precrash braking systems to cars that detect pedestrians and autonomously brake the car to prevent or lower the speed of the impact with the pedestrian. Methods: The analysis was divided into 2 main parts: (1) Develop and apply methodology to estimate...

The objective of the EU project AsPeCSS (Assessment methodologies for forward looking Integrated Pedestrian and further extension to Cyclists Safety Systems, EC grant agreement no. 285106) is to contribute to the protection of vulnerable road users by developing harmonized test and assessment procedures for integrated pedestrian safety systems. The...

For the assessment of vehicle safety in frontal collisions compatibility (which consists of self and partner protection) between opponents is crucial. Although compatibility has been analysed worldwide for years, no final assessment approach has been defined to date. Taking into account the European Enhanced Vehicle safety Committee (EEVC) compatib...

For the assessment of vehicle safety in frontal collisions compatibility (which consists of self and partner protection) between opponents is crucial. Although compatibility has been analysed worldwide for over 10 years, no final assessment approach has been defined to date. Taking into account the European Enhanced Vehicle safety Committee (EEVC)...

Although the number of road accident casualties in Europe is falling the problem still remains substantial. In 2011 there were still over 30,000 road accident fatalities [EC 2012]. Approximately half of these were car occupants and about 60 percent of these occurred in frontal impacts. The next stage to improve a car’s safety performance in frontal...

For the assessment of vehicle safety in frontal collisions compatibility (which consists of self and partner protection) between opponents is crucial. Although compatibility has been analysed worldwide for over 10 years, no final assessment approach has been defined to date. Taking into account the European Enhanced Vehicle safety Committee (EEVC)...

Objective: It is commonly agreed that active safety will have a significant impact on reducing accident figures for pedestrians and probably also bicyclists. However, chances and limitations for active safety systems have only been derived based on accident data and the current state of the art, based on proprietary simulation models. The objectiv...

Within this paper different European accident data sources were used to investigate the causations and backgrounds of road traffic accidents with pedestrians. Analyses of high level national data and in-depth accident data from Germany and Great Britain was used to confirm and refine preliminary accident scenarios identified from other sources usin...

It is well known that most accidents with pedestrians are caused by the driver not being alert or misinterpreting the situation. For that reason advanced forward looking safety systems have a high potential to improve safety for this group of vulnerable road users. Active pedestrian protection systems combine reduction of impact speed by driver war...

In general the passive safety capability is much greater in newer versus older cars due to the stiff compartment preventing intrusion in severe collisions. However, the stiffer structure which increases the deceleration can lead to a change in injury patterns. In order to analyse possible injury mechanisms for thoracic and lumbar spine injuries, da...

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The ASSESS project is a collaborative project that develops test procedures for pre-crash safety systems like Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB). One key criterion for the effectiveness of e.g. AEB is reduction in collision speed compared to baseline scenarios without AEB. The speed reduction for a given system can only be determined in real world t...