Injury analysis of pedestrians in collisions using the pedestrian deformable model

Vehicle safety has become the most important issue in automobile design. However, all efforts to improve safety devices focus on enhancing safety features for occupants. Notably, pedestrians are the second largest category of motor vehicle deaths, after occupants, and account for about 13 percent of motor vehicle deaths. It is essential to design pedestrian-friendly vehicles and pedestrian protection systems to reduce pedestrian fatalities and injuries. To effectively assess pedestrian injuries resulting from vehicle impact, a deformable pedestrian model must be developed for vehicle-pedestrian collision analysis. This study constructs a pedestrian-collision numerical model based on LS-DYNA finite element code. To verify the accuracy of the proposed deformable pedestrian model, experimental data are used in the pedestrian model test. This study applies the proposed model to analyze the dynamic responses and injuries of pedestrians involved in collisions. The modeled results can help assess vehicle pedestrian friendliness and assist in the future development of pedestrian-friendly vehicle technologies.     

Design of emergency braking algorithm for pedestrian protection based on multi-sensor fusion

Globally, safety has become an increasingly important issue in the automotive industry. In an attempt to reduce traffic fatalities, UNECE launched a new EU Road Safety Program which aims to decrease the number of road deaths by half by 2020. AEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking) is a very effective active safety system intended to reduce fatalities. This study involves the design of a multi-sensor data fusion strategy and decision-making algorithm for AEB pedestrian. Possible collision avoidance scenarios according to the EuroNCAP protocol are analyzed and a robust pedestrian tracking strategy is proposed. The performance of the AEB system is enhanced by using a braking model to predict the collision avoidance time and by designing the system activation zone according to the relative speed and possible distance required to stop for pedestrians. The AEB activation threshold requires careful consideration. The test results confirm the advantages of the proposed algorithm, the performance of which is described in this paper.     

Assessment of the pedestrian friendliness of a vechicle using subsystem impact tests

Annually, thousands of unprotected pedestrians are killed or suffer serious injuries in accidents with moving vehicles. Numerous automobile organizations have performed research on pedestrian safety. The European Enhanced Vehicle- Safety Committee (EEVC), Working Group 17 (WG17) proposed three component subsystem tests to evaluate the friendliness of a vehicle to pedestrians: the legform to hood test, the upper legform to bonnet leading edge test and the headform to bonnet top test. In assessing the pedestrian friendliness of a vehicle, the present study adopted the WG17 regulations of the three component subsystem tests. We herein describe in detail a finite element subsystem model built to analyze the pedestrian friendliness of a vehicle using LS-DYNA. The first objective of this study was to simulate these three component subsystem impact tests and evaluate car front aggressiveness. The second objective was to analyze the frontal structures of a vehicle and, based on the simulation results, identify dangerous areas and provide suggestions for vehicle front design that may decrease pedestrian injuries. The analysis of these models and the results obtained may be used to help evaluate the pedestrian friendliness of a vehicle and guide the future development of pedestrian-friendly vehicle technologies.     

基于心理安全距离的行人风险评价及预警算法研究

为实现在机非混行的交通环境下,对动态、随机弱势道路使用者的准确风险评估,基于行车安全场理论提出了考虑行人心理安全距离的碰撞行人风险评价模型.首先通过考虑行驶车辆是否会危及行人的心理安全,提出了心理安全距离的概念,包括心理安全通行距离和心理安全制动距离2个方面,并通过问卷调研挖掘其可能的影响因素进行数值分析;接着将心理安...     

Evaluation of a brake assistance system (BAS) using an injury severity prediction model for pedestrians

Through the years, traffic engineers and researchers have developed a variety of countermeasures to enhance pedestrian safety. Pedestrian-vehicle collisions are regarded as the most serious type of accident since they incur high fatality rates. A fundamental concept in developing effective countermeasures is to analyze pedestrian-vehicle collisions scientifically, which can identify the causes of accidents and accident severity. The objective of this study was to investigate the pedestrian safety benefit of the brake assistance system (BAS) and a functional requirement associated with BAS, namely the time needed to safely detect a pedestrian ahead. An injury severity prediction model for pedestrians was developed to systematically evaluate the BAS in this study. Ordered multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to establish a statistical model capable of predicting pedestrian injury severity. In addition to vehicle characteristics, collision speed and pedestrian characteristics were used as independent predictor variables. The outcomes of this study would be useful in directing the development of safety policies and technologies associated with pedestrian safety.     

人车碰撞风险识别及智能车辆控制系统

为了减少道路行人与车辆碰撞,智能辅助驾驶系统采用行人检测与预警方式提醒驾驶人,从而降低人车碰撞风险.但在驾驶人意识模糊时,这种方式存在一定的不可靠性.以行人检测和碰撞风险预警为基础,基于车辆动力学模型提出一种智能车辆制动控制系统.在该系统中,通过视频传感器和图像的方向梯度直方图(HOG)特征,结合SVM识别算法,在大量图像样本量的前提下对行人进行目标识别与跟踪;运用碰撞风险识别与预警算法对最危险目标碰撞态势进行实时判断;采用车辆动力学模型开发的车速分级控制器实现车辆速度的自适应控制,实现不同风险状态下的车速智能控制.实车实验结果表明,基于该方法开发的系统能够快速并精准地检测行人,动态情况下行人识别准确率达到89%;基于风险预警判断进行车辆安全平稳的紧急制动,实现危险碰撞态势下的辅助操作,从而降低车辆与行人之间的碰撞概率.     

Development of probabilistic pedestrian fatality model for characterizing pedestrian-vehicle collisions

Pedestrian-related accidents are considered to be the most serious of traffic accidents due to the associated high fatality rates. In Korea, pedestrian fatalities accounted for approximately 40% of all traffic-related fatalities in 2004. Significant efforts have been made to develop effective countermeasures for pedestrian-vehicle collisions. A basis for devising such countermeasures is to understand the characteristics of pedestrian-vehicle collisions. This study develops a pedestrian fatality model capable of predicting the probability of fatality in pedestrian-vehicle collisions. Binary logistic regression and a probabilistic neural network (PNN) are employed to estimate the probability of pedestrian fatality. Pedestrian age, vehicle type and collision speed are used as independent variables of the fatality model. The models developed herein are valuable tools that can be used to direct safety policies and technologies associated with pedestrian safety.     

行人保护技术发展现状分析

汽车与行人碰撞过程中的行人保护问题一直是汽车安全技术发展的一个重要课题。基于国内外行人保护法规及行人保护技术的研究现状,以汽车被动安全性为研究对象,介绍了保险杠行人保护技术、发动机罩行人保护技术、行人保护气囊及其他行人保护技术。随着技术的不断进步,我国将越来越重视行人安全保护技术。该研究为我国后续行人保护研究提供了参考。     

基于累积前景理论的无信控路段人车通行冲突博弈分析

无信控路段具有强交互性和高事故率,由于缺乏交通信号将人车进行分离,导致其容易形成人车通行冲突,影响道路通行效率和交通安全.为此,以各道路使用者的损失最小为目标,构建了基于累积前景理论的人车通行冲突博弈模型.通过研究过街行人与机动车辆的交互作用,分析双方决策行为影响因素并构建得失矩阵;同时在考虑决策者主观心理感知的前提下...     

总布置设计对行人保护的重要影响

随着经济的迅速发展,我国已成为世界上重要的汽车生产和消费国之一。汽车迅速发展带来的后果是汽车安全事故的频发。为了有效地控制汽车事故中行人的伤亡率,文章介绍了欧盟强制法规的碰撞条件及评价分值,以约束汽车结构和性能,增加行人安全系数。分析了在前期总布置中设计对行人保护有作用的造型和结构。指出总布置工作对整车安全和行人安全起到了非常关键的作用,越来越受到各个厂家和消费群体的重视。     

探究复合材料发动机罩的行人保护作用

为探究复合材料发动机罩行人保护的作用,需要在结构设计及优化的基础上,进行静态和动态性能的仿真分析,即在达到发动机罩静态性能指标的前提下,要满足动态行人保护头部碰撞的要求.由于动静态的性能要求难以同时达到,则需要不断地进行结构调整和仿真计算,以达到符合复合材料发动机罩静力学和动力学性能要求的目的,从而有效实现发动机罩部件的轻量化并提高整车的动力性能.     

玄武岩纤维/铝合金层合板低速冲击性能及应用研究

制备一种玄武岩纤维/铝合金层合板复合结构,通过试验和仿真,探讨该复合结构的拉伸、压缩、剪切、弯曲和抗冲击特性。采用连续壳单元模拟纤维层,建立低速冲击仿真模型,从能量吸收、接触力和层合板损伤程度3个方面,研究铺层结构和冲击载荷角度对纤维金属层合板抗冲击性能的影响。最后,将纤维金属层合板应用于发动机罩外板,进行发动机罩静态刚度和行人头部碰撞仿真分析。结果表明,与原发动机罩相比,纤维金属层合板发动机罩的弯曲刚度和扭转刚度均有不同程度提高,行人头部保护性能得到改善。     

Study on influence of walking experience on traffic safety attitudes and values among foreign residents in Japan

The most vulnerable user in road space is still an ordinary pedestrian even though the top fatalities by traffic mode differ in countries. Thus, prioritizing/protecting vulnerable road users is essential to improve road safety. People's safety perceptions toward vulnerable users are strongly associated with surrounding elements and their own experiences, especially as pedestrians. Therefore the attitude and values toward vulnerable users would vary due to culture and customs related to walking in each country. This study examines how a walking experience change reflects people with diverse backgrounds' traffic safety attitudes by conducting an online questionnaire survey for foreigners living in Japan for five years or less. As a result, 75% of respondents walk more frequently due to increased public transportation usage. For all the respondents, the increase in the walking frequency also drives the shift in the attitude toward vulnerable users and the values regarding travel safety and comfort indirectly intermediated by the shift in attitudes toward walkability, applying structural equation modeling. To focus on the structure of the shift according to nationality, people from Southeast/South Asia, where motorcyclists are the top fatalities in the road space and somehow regarded as vulnerable road users, the increased walking experience contributes significantly to the improvement of awareness of vulnerable road users and to the formation of safety and comfort values. Regarding people from Europe/North America, although their walking frequency increases after coming to Japan, there is a static causal relationship that does not influence their attitude toward walkability or safety and comfort values. Additionally, they already have an attitude of protecting/prioritizing pedestrians and placing more importance on safety and comfort. At the same time, people from Southeast/South lacks the attitude toward pedestrians due to much less frequency of walking in daily life. It suggests that establishing safe and having comfortable pedestrian spaces and public transport in developing countries where traffic infrastructure is at the development stage will encourage people to walk and likely help foster an attitude of placing importance on safety.     

Pedestrian accessibility and safety around bus stops in Delhi

Safety for public transport (PT) users is least during the access and egress trips. Previous studies have established that improvement in pedestrian safety will improve the safety of PT users as well. We studied the accessibility of pedestrian infrastructure around ~360 sampled bus stops in Delhi by conducting physical audits. 15 indicators in the audit checklist were meaningfully reduced to five factors through Principal Components Analysis. We developed Poisson regression models (with their geographically-weighted counterparts) to assess the association between these five factors for each bus stop with the number of pedestrian fatalities around that stop. Two models were developed— a) for fatalities where the impacting vehicle was known, and b) for fatalities where the impacting vehicle was unknown (hit-and-run cases). For both the models, geographically-weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) performed better than their global Poisson counterparts. Overall improved access was seen to be positively associated with less pedestrian fatalities. Further, we established that the nature of hit-and-run cases differ from those where the impacting vehicle is known, through— a) difference in the effect of the exposure variable, b) different factors being significant in the respective models, especially in the GWPR. The novelty of this study is that we modelled the relationship of pedestrian fatalities around PT stops with factors related to the pedestrian access to these stops. Through the application of GWPR, we found that different types of pedestrian fatalities are related to different aspects of access. We also identified bus stops with higher risk of pedestrian fatalities. Based on this, the methodology presented in this study is useful in guiding city authorities to identify and prioritise a) specific access-related factors which require improvement, and b) bus stops which require improvement in their pedestrian-access infrastructure. These analyses can be extended to study pedestrian safety around PT stops in any city.     

基于E—NCAP行人碰撞保护的发动机罩设计

行人头部碰撞保护一直是汽车行人安全设计的难点,随着E—NCAP对行人保护要求的不断提高,头部保护的得分比重对于获得高星级评价至关重要。文章基于某车型E—NCAPV6．2五星性能开发,采用虚拟仿真与试验测试有效结合的方法,对发动机罩进行了优化设计,提出了一种有利于行人头部碰撞保护的发动机罩。改进前后测试成绩的对比分析表明,该结构可极大优化行人头部碰撞保护效果,使发动机罩头部测试区域得分总分提升至24．43分,满足E—NCAPV6．2五星行人保护性能要求。可为后续设计提供参考,具有很高的推广价值。     

Characteristics of collision damage mitigation braking system for pedestrian protection

The vehicle travel velocity at pedestrian contact is considered to be an important parameter that affects the crash outcome. To reduce vehicle/pedestrian impact velocity, a collision damage mitigation braking system (CDMBS) using a sensor for pedestrian protection could be an effective countermeasure. The first purpose of this study is to clarify the relation between vehicle travel velocity and pedestrian injury severity due to differences in pedestrians’ ages in actual traffic accidents. The accident analyses were performed using vehicle-pedestrian accident data in 2009 from the database of the Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis (ITARDA) in Japan. The result revealed that the fatality risk became higher with the increase in vehicle travel velocity. The second purpose of this study is to determine the safety performance of production vehicles equipped with the CDMBS for pedestrian protection. It was found that the CDMBS was highly effective in reducing the impact velocity from 50 km/h (vehicle travel velocity) to below 17 km/h, that could result in a significant decrease in fatality risk to be 2% or less. Additionally, the authors investigated a detectable zone with respect to a pedestrian’s position in relation to the vehicle. It was shown that the detectable zones for production vehicles tested were limited to be inside the vehicle front width.     

行人被面包车碰撞的运动学规律

为了丰富人车碰撞事故运动学理论,同时为面包车碰撞行人事故的分析鉴定提供理论支撑,对20～110 km·h^-1车辆碰撞速度下行人被面包车碰撞后的运动规律进行研究。利用多刚体建模系统PC-Crash软件构建面包车与行人碰撞仿真模型,并通过仿真获得多种碰撞条件下行人碰撞后的纵向/横向抛距、抛射高度、抛射角度、空中旋转圈数、躯干合成速度和头部合成加速度等运动学数据。结合国家车辆事故深度调查体系（NAIS）中14例具有可靠数据的事故样本进行比较验证。定义并提出了行人被面包车碰撞后的拱推型运动形态,以区别于长头车碰撞的卷绕型和平头车碰撞的推掷型。结果表明：拱推型碰撞中行人会在瞬间被加速到车辆碰撞速度的111%～127%;在高速（110 km·h^-1）碰撞中,头部合成加速度值超过3 000 m·s^-2,头部损伤指标（HIC）值超过7 500;行人空中旋转不超过3圈,被抛高度不超过4.0 m,抛射角度介于6°～11°;行人抛距与车辆碰撞速度之间的关系可以用幂函数模型进行描述;碰撞接触位置、车型外廓参数、行人行走速度和行人碰撞姿势对行人被抛运动形态有一定程度的影响,相对标准碰撞的影响程度一般在5%以内,最大不超过10%（边翻型除外）;行人头部损伤安全界限（HIC值为1 000）对应的车辆碰撞速度约为55 km·h^-1;边翻型碰撞中行人的运动形态与拱推型差别较大,横向抛距最大可达12.0 m。     

轿车车身外部造型设计中有关技术问题的研究

在分析了大量轿车相关设计标准和资料的基础上,研究了在轿车外部造型设计中涉及到的主动安全性、被动安全性、空气动力性及乘座舒适性等技术性问题。特别就行人保护和碰撞后对车辆本身的损坏等被动安全性问题对轿车车身外部造型设计的要求,做了比较详细的讨论。     

车辆-行人法规实施的重要性研究

行人安全技术应用在汽车上可以降低汽车一行人碰撞中行人的伤害，因此，我国应该实施行人保护法规，促使汽车生产企业加速行人保护方面的研究。文章通过对道路交通事故中行人伤害所占的比例分析，说明了在我国开展行人保护研究的重要意义。阐述了在汽车与行人的碰撞过程中，汽车可能对行人造成伤害的主要部分，从而对改进汽车相关结构提出重要依据。力图从根本上提高汽车的被动安全性能，使我国的汽车工业向更加完善的方向发展，从而使我国的汽车技术和世界汽车技术接轨。     

轿车行人保护技术发展的重要性

行人安全越来越成为人们关注的重要问题,文章针对行车过程中行人伤害特点来说明行人保护技术研究的重要意义。随着我国将于2013年正式实施《汽车对行人的碰撞保护》标准,必然将推动我国行人保护技术的快速发展。文章结合行人保护技术的发展历程及现阶段此项技术研究的方法和应用现状,为此方面的研究工作提供参考,从而使我国汽车工业得以更加完善发展。