A study on kinematics of electric-bicycle-rider in car collisions based on traffic accident data
Paper in proceeding, 2013

The impact scenarios, impact velocity were investigated based on 224 car-electric bicycle collision cases in IVAC (In-depth Investigation of Car Accident in Changsha) database. Cars were classified into three types: sedan, SUV and one box. According to analysis of traffic accident data, car-electric bicycle collision models were built up by using MADYMO. In order to analyze the kinematics of electric-bicycle-riders, this paper conducted a series of numerical experiments by changing the types of cars. Results show that the most prominent impact modes were frontal impact (54%) and side impact (33%), rider's head tend to strike sedan at upper part of the windscreen', 'SUV at the front end of bonnet, and one box at lower part of the windscreen, The peak values of head's and pelvis' acceleration were higher and occurred earlier when a SUV or one box impacted with electric bicycle.

Electric-bicycle-rider's kinematics

Car-electric bicycle accidents

Traffic accident data

Author

Xuechao Wang

Hunan University

Jin Nie

Hunan University

Jikuang Yang

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety

Xuenong Zhou

Hunan Police Academy

Chao Zhang

Xiaoping Yu

Traffic Police Branch of Changsha

Weiqiang Li

Police Hospital of Changsha

Proceedings - 2013 5th Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation, ICMTMA 2013

106-109
9780769549323 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Reliability and Maintenance

DOI

10.1109/ICMTMA.2013.38

ISBN

9780769549323

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Created

10/6/2017