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Russell Marshall
Russell
Marshall
Steve Summerskill
Steve
Summerskill
James Lenard
James
Lenard
The analysis of UK road traffic accident data and its use in the development of a direct vision standard for trucks in London
Loughborough University
2019
Vehicle design
Simulation
Direct vision standard
Safety
Regulation
Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified
2019-05-20 09:57:46
Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/The_analysis_of_UK_road_traffic_accident_data_and_its_use_in_the_development_of_a_direct_vision_standard_for_trucks_in_London/9352850
This paper presents the analysis of UK road accident data to inform the de-velopment of a Direct Vision Standard (DVS) for trucks in the UK. The re-search forms part of a project funded by Transport for London. The DVS allows any truck to be rated in terms of its performance in the field of view afforded the driver. The standard will be used to limit the movement of poorly rated vehicles within central London from 2020. The standard will also foster improved truck designs for direct vision in the future. The analy-sis used accident data from the UK STATS 19 database between 2010 and 2015. Data were categorized on causation data and a series of accident characteristics to identify scenarios of accidents between trucks and vulnera-ble road users. These scenarios then informed the design of the DVS, in par-ticular the definition of the areas of greatest risk around the cab.