Publication detail

CASE STUDY OF VEHICLE SIDE CRASHES WITH TRAMS

MIKULEC, R. TOKAŘ, S. SEMELA, M.

Original Title

CASE STUDY OF VEHICLE SIDE CRASHES WITH TRAMS

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Side impacts belong to the most dangerous types of collisions. This type of collision is typical for accidents of vehicles at crossroads (intersections). In cases where the public city transport includes tramways, there is also a risk of collision between vehicles and tramways. Considering the stiffness of construction and mass of a tramway, depending also on the number of travelling passengers, even collision at relatively low crash speeds into side part of passenger vehicle may result in severe injuries of passengers. Ten accidents of tramways with personal vehicles according to the speed of collision, damage on vehicles and the effects to injuries of the vehicle's crew have been analysed in this paper. The crash speed is analysed according to damage on the vehicle and verified with the support of the simulation programme calculation. The cause of the accident in connection to mutual visibility aspects at the crash scene has also been analysed. All the analysed accidents occurred in city Brno, Czech Republic and were documented as part of CzIDAS project (Czech In-Depth Accident Study based on GIDAS database) by Traffic Research Centre institution. Cases have been analysed in cooperation between Brno University of Technology and Traffic Research Centre, Czech Republic.

Keywords

tram; vehicle; crash; passenger injuries; accident analysis

Authors

MIKULEC, R.; TOKAŘ, S.; SEMELA, M.

Released

16. 5. 2018

Publisher

UNIV ZAGREB, FAC CIVIL ENGINEERING

Location

ZAGREB

ISBN

978-953-8168-25-3

Book

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructures - CETRA 2018

ISBN

1848-9850

Periodical

Road and Rail Infrastructure V

State

Republic of Croatia

Pages from

1393

Pages to

1399

Pages count

7

URL

http://master.grad.hr/cetra/ocs/index.php/cetra5/index/pages/view/pastconf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT147581,
  author="Roman {Mikulec} and Stanislav {Tokař} and Marek {Semela}",
  title="CASE STUDY OF VEHICLE SIDE CRASHES WITH TRAMS",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructures - CETRA 2018",
  year="2018",
  journal="Road and Rail Infrastructure V",
  pages="1393--1399",
  publisher="UNIV ZAGREB, FAC CIVIL ENGINEERING",
  address="ZAGREB",
  doi="10.5592/CO/CETRA.2018.738",
  isbn="978-953-8168-25-3",
  issn="1848-9850",
  url="http://master.grad.hr/cetra/ocs/index.php/cetra5/index/pages/view/pastconf"
}