Course detail

Road accident analysis I

ÚSI-1EBANAcad. year: 2017/2018

The subject acquaints students with the basics of vehicle movement mechanics, with system concept of the road accident analysis and it teaches them applying this knowledge to particular situations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

After completing this course, the students will be able to place the technical road accident analysis among other disciplines, define primary quantities and units, terminology, tire tracks and their documentation and identification, define basic relations, laws of motion, forces affecting the vehicle, parameters of a person and his role in road accidents, vehicle parameters, forces, tires and their models, parameters of surroundings, dynamic vehicle parameters. They will also be able to analyse damage and the correspondence of the damage, diagrams trajectory – time, trajectory – velocity etc., interval diagrams, avert the accidents and analyse accidents with pedestrians and bicyclists. Further, the will be capable of applying this knowledge to the road accident analysis.

Prerequisites

Not requested.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching is carried out through lectures and seminars. Lectures consist of interpretations of basic principles, methodology of given discipline, problems and their exemplary solutions. Seminars particularly support practical mastery of subject matter presented in lectures or assigned for individual study with the active participation of students.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit conditions - obtaining at least 150 points out of 200 possible (2 × 50 continuous test in about the 5th and 9th week of the semester, 100 per semester project).

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to road accident analysis, primary quantities and units
2. Basic relations, Laws of Motion, forces affecting the vehicles, ride in curve, safe distance
3. Types of tire tracks, collecting the data at the site of accident and measuring technology
4. Movement of splinters, movement of vehicle through the air, transverse transfer and overtaking
5. Element “person” – biometrical data, driver’s reaction time, movement parameters, sensory perception, alertness
6. Element “vehicle”
7. Element “surroundings” – shapes and parameters of the communication, accident site inspection, expert and investigative experiment
8. Braking, start, brakes delay, acceleration
9. Correspondence of the damage analysis, run-out
10. Diagrams for road accident analysis – graph trajectory – time, other used diagrams, area of blocked view
11. Interval diagrams, sequences and averting the accident
12. Road accident with pedestrians
13. Road accident with bicyclists

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Goal of this subject is to obtain theoretical basis of the road accident analysis and to learn to apply these theoretical findings in practice. Going through this course is a condition for studying Road accident analysis II.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance is checked in attendance sheet.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

SEMELA, M. Analýza silničních nehod I. Brno. 2012. (83 p.).

Recommended reading

BRADÁČ a kol. Soudní inženýrství. AKADEMICKÉ NAKLADATELSTVÍ CERM, s.r.o., Brno 1997 ISBN 80-7204-057-X
BRADÁČ A., GLIER L., KREJČÍŘ P., PEŘINA J. Znalecký standard č. II, III, IV, V. MSp Praha, ÚSI VUT v Brně, 1990 - 1992, Aktualizace 2002

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MSoI Master's

    branch EID , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

E-learning texts

Semela M., Analýza silničních nehod I, VUT v Brně 2014, ISBN:978-80-214-5037-0 (cs) - druhé, aktualizované vydání