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- del Pozo de Dios, Eduardo, et al.
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Towards a Global and Harmonized Database for In-Depth Accident Investigation in Europe: The Dacota Project
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Ingår i: The 23rd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim with this paper is to describe the procedure for the development of a common methodology for research accident investigation and identifying and training new research teams across Europe. In-depth accident investigation has a great potential to provide researchers, car manufacturers and road administrations with valuable information on how and why accidents and injuries occur. The data can be used to determine the issues where efforts must be focused when research studies are conducted, crash protection countermeasures are designed and policy decisions are taken. Existing European databases are mainly focused on regional or specific stakeholder interests due to the lack of an international network, and there are significant differences in the information collected and how the database variables are coded. This lack of harmonisation precludes any detailed global analysis on the whole EU accident situation. The EU co-funded the DaCoTA project - inspired by previous projects like SafetyNet and TRACE – intended to establish a Pan-European In-depth Accident Investigation Network and to create a European database that could include in-depth accident investigation cases from all the European countries. Built on earlier pilot investigations conducted by previous projects, and following consultation with the range of stakeholders, an in-depth accident investigation system has been developed to standardise and harmonise the data to be collected during the investigations. Based on the new methodology, accident investigation teams from across Europe have been trained to systematically produce high quality research data. A comprehensive, secure, web-based database has been created to centralise the information collected and to analyse the results from the cases. To ensure the harmonisation of the data collected, a pilot study and subsequent data quality reviews were performed. The DaCoTA project has developed a harmonised in-depth accident investigation methodology, openly available in an online manual. From 19 European countries, 22 organisations were trained in the DaCoTA accident investigation methodology. The web based database includes over 1,500 variables related to the road, vehicle, road-user, accident reconstruction and injury analysis. Over 450 of these variables are considered as essential “core variables”. In total, 99 on-scene and retrospective cases have been collected by 18 accident investigation teams using the standard methodology and these have been uploaded to the database for further analysis. Good relationships have been established between the network teams and their local authorities, including the police and hospitals. In some countries, efforts to obtain the necessary permissions to gain access to the accident scenes and to acquire sensitive medical or forensic data is continued. The DaCoTA project has developed the Pan-European in-depth accident investigation methodology, including a network of investigating teams, providing a viable means for the systematic collection of harmonised in-depth accident data for use by researchers, road and vehicle safety related industries and policy makers.
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- Elliman, Rachel, et al.
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Recommendations for establishing Pan European Transparent and Independent Road Accident Investigations
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Ingår i: 3:rd International Conference ESAR - Expert Symposium on Accident Research, Hannover, Germany.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A set of recommendations for pan-European transparent and independent road accident investigations has been developed bythe SafetyNet project. The aim of these recommendations is to pave the way for future EU scale accident investigationactivities by setting out the necessary steps for establishing safety oriented road accident investigations in Member States.This can be seen as the start of the process for establishing road accident investigations throughout Europe which operateaccording to a common methodology.The recommendations propose a European Safety Oriented Road Accident Investigation Programme which sets out theprocedures that need to be put in place to investigate a sample of every day road accidents. They address four sets of issues;institutional addressing the characteristics of the programme; operational describing the conditions under which data iscollected; data storage and protection; and reports, countermeasures and the dissemination of data.
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- Fagerlind, Helen, 1975, et al.
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Overview of Harmonized European Crash Investigations - From Focused Studies to a Holistic Approach
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Ingår i: 2013 Road Safety and Simulation International Conference, RSS, Rome.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim with this paper is to describe the evolution of harmonized European crash investigations. The European Commission has during the past decade funded several specialized crash investigation studies focusing on: the cause of road crashes, child safety, crashes involving trucks and coaches; motorcycle crashes; rollover crashes; roadside infrastructure in run off road crashes; passive safety of passenger cars and fatal crashes. These projects included both methodology development and data collection and the databases comprises hundreds to a couple of thousand crashes each, from a nineteen countries in Europe. Due to the specific objective from study to study and the variation in the investigation methodology it is difficult to combine the existing data in a common analysis. To overcome these limitations and to enable aggregate analysis of in-depth data collected from different countries, a holistic crash investigation methodology was developed within the EU funded project DaCoTA. The holistic crash investigation methodology, further referred to as the Road Crash Information System (RCIS), has defined a common investigation procedure based on the previous studies. RCIS includes two useful tools. One is the on-line manual, publicly available on the internet, that in detail describes the procedures and the data variables collected. The other one is the web based open source application that, in a secure way, can be used to store, analyse and exchange data from different teams across Europe and further afield.
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- Margaritis, Dimitris, et al.
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Pan-European In-depth Road Accident Database
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Ingår i: 2013 Road Safety on Four Continents, RS4C, Beijing.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The large number of road accidents and casualties requires the development of a European approach for collecting data that will allow a harmonized and detailed investigation of accidents, while assuring the quality of the collected information. Within the project DaCoTA (Work Package 2), existing methodologies were examined in order for elements of them to form the content of a broader framework which was then developed and implemented in a pilot study involving 19 countries. The new database was based on existing systems, after an assessment of protocol adequacy. The database includes eight sections of data, such as “Road”, “Vehicle” and “Medical Information - Injury Mechanism”. The web-based application which includes the storage of the collected data allows teams cross Europe to upload and download data in a secure way. An on-line manual has been further developed and has been used for the first time on a European wide basis. The collection methodology and the database were tested by teams from 19 EU Member States or neighboring countries before the final version being made available for future use.
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- Morris, Andrew, et al.
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The development of a European fatal accident database
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Ingår i: International Journal of Crashworthiness. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1358-8265 .- 1754-2111. ; 15:2, s. 201-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A lack of representative European accident data to aid the development of safety policy, regulation and technological advancement is a major obstacle in the European Union. Data are needed to assess the performance of road and vehicle safety and also to support the development of further actions by stakeholders. A recent analysis conducted by the European Transport Safety Council identified that there was no single system in place that could meet all of the needs and that there were major gaps including in-depth crash causation information. This paper describes the process of developing a data collection and analysis system designed to partly fill these gaps. A project team with members from seven countries was set up to devise appropriate variable lists to collect fatal crash data, using retrospective detailed police reports (n = 1300), under the following topic levels: accident, road environment, vehicle and road user. The typical level of detail recorded was a minimum of 150 variables for each accident. The project will enable multidisciplinary information on the circumstances of fatal crashes to be interpreted to provide information on a range of causal factors and events surrounding the collisions. This has major applications in the areas of active safety systems, infrastructure and road safety, as well as for tailoring behavioural interventions.
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