Road Traffic Accidents Analysis Introduction

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Department of Forensic Experts in Transportation

Synopsis:

Important parameters of road infrastructure, typical vehicle dimensions, distance-time diagram, response time components, backward projection of accidental process, vehicle body post-crash deformation, impact influence on passengers, video documentation, problem: who was the driver, documentation, marks analysis, limits of accidental analysis, cornering, critical maneuvring, technical view hindrances, visibility and discriminability, nightfall.

Requirements:

construction of vehicles, kinematics and dynamics of a mass point, Newton's laws, oscilation, impact, impulse, plastic and elastic deformation, traffic accident as a physical process, types of accidents, location and ranging methods

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Study Objective:

This subject helps students to get acquinted with basic procedures of traffic accidents analysis, treated tasks and level of externalities influence.

Study materials:

Šachl, J., Šachl, J., Schmidt, D., Mičunek, T., Frydrýn, M.:Analýza nehod v silničním provozu, 2. doplněné vydání, ČVUT v Praze, Fakulta dopravní, Ústav soudního znalectví v dopravě, říjen 2008

Šachl, J., Šachl, J.: Adheze pneumatik v analýze silničních nehod, ČVUT v Praze, Fakulta dopravní, Ústav soudního znalectví v dopravě, říjen 2008

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• DOS bak.prez.11/12 (compulsory course)