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Category Archives: Safety
Alcohol behind many accidents with e-scooters
A young man under the influence of alcohol drives on an uneven surface or drives against a curb. He falls off and suffers injuries to his face and head. This happens late in the evening or during the night. That’s pretty much how a typical accident with an electric scooter unfolds.
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Posted in Safety, Vehicles
Tagged accidents, alcohol, e-scooters, electric scooters
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HCT: Do longer trucks affect road safety?
Trials of longer, heavier vehicles have shown that they can help reduce climate impact by increasing transport efficiency. Fewer trucks carrying more cargo in a single consignment use less fuel per tonne of goods transported, which in turn results in lower emissions. Several ongoing projects...
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Posted in Energy and Fuel, Environment and Climate, Safety, Traffic and Traffic Control, Vehicles
Tagged emissions, traffic safety
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30 km/h general speed limit in urban areas had a positive effect
Several European cities have introduced a general speed limit of 30 km/h in urban areas and the results so far show lower speed, compliance with the speed limit and fewer accidents.
This is summarized in a new TØI report that looks at experiences from six European cities, as well as Spain,...
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Posted in Energy and Fuel, Human Behaviour and Attitudes, Safety, Traffic and Traffic Control, Vehicles
Tagged traffic safety
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ROADVIEW – autonomous vehicles in extreme weather
Getting autonomous vehicles to work properly in sunny and dry weather is difficult enough. Add heavy rain, high winds and dense fog and the task becomes even more difficult. The ROADVIEW project is about just that – autonomous vehicles in extreme weather.
Chamber where artificial fog is used...
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Posted in Okategoriserade, Safety, Simulation, Traffic and Traffic Control
Tagged autonomous vehicles, EU, ROADVIEW
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“Not roadworthy”: VTI does not recommend the use of all-weather tyres
All-weather tyres have significantly poorer characteristics than regular winter and summer tyres in all conditions. The traction on icy road surfaces is so poor that the tyres cannot be seen as roadworthy for Swedish winter roads. This is shown in a new report from VTI and Folksam.
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Posted in Passenger Transport, Safety, Vehicles
Tagged winter roads, winter tyres
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Norway in the driver’s seat of bus safety
Posted in Okategoriserade, Passenger Transport, Policy and Planning, Safety, Traffic and Traffic Control, Vehicles
Tagged bus drivers, crash protection, road safety
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Speed effects of automatic enforcement on urban streets
A recent study evaluated the effects on driving speed of automatic speed enforcement on the street network in Helsinki. Installing automatic enforcement reduced speeding and in particular the proportion of excessive speeding. There was also a reduction in the proportion of speeding overall...
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Posted in Okategoriserade, Safety, Traffic and Traffic Control
Tagged driving speed, Helsinki, speed limit
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First female crash test dummy displayed at VTI
Here they are. The world’s first average-sized female crash test dummy. And Professor Astrid Linder, a world-leading road safety researcher who spent 20 years developing the dummy. The objective is for women to have the same protection as men in a collision.
Astrid Linder and the SET50F crash...
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Tagged crash dummy, female, first, vti
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Report: Variable speed limits only have benefits
Good compliance, less environmental impact and better road safety. The same journey times on average, but fewer very long queues. A variable speed limit trial has shown a number of benefits – and actually no disadvantages. “This method should be used more,” says the researcher responsible...
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