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K Schwieger, H. Ecker, A. Hula, M. Neumann:
"Identification of patterns in motorcycle riding dynamics at known accident sites";
Talk: TRA 2020 - 8th Transport Research Arena, Helsinki; 2020-04-27 - 2020-04-30; in: "Web-Proceedings of 8th Transport Research Arena TRA 2020", (2020), Paper ID ID 512, 11 pages.

The positive trend of declining accident numbers in Austria´s traffic sector in general, is not seen for powered twowheelers (PTWs). Furthermore, fatality numbers of motorcycle-riders on Austria´s road network is increasing and show for 2017 the highest number since 11 years. This negative trend was the reason for a research project, funded by the Austrian Road Safety fund. The scope of the project was a feasibility study on proactive, semi-automated risk assessment of roads especially designed for PTWs. For this study riding dynamics data have been gained by a motorcycle test vehicle. By analyzing measurement data collected by this highly instrumented PTW, road sections where identified, with a high probability that an accident may occur at some time in the future. The analysis results were obtained by an algorithmic methodology, based on clustering and statistical methods, for determining critical sections via similarities to known accident sites in riding dynamics data.

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_294633.pdf