Dear everyone,
On behalf of the EVU Scientific Board, I would like to wish you all a pleasant and useful dive into all papers that were selected for presentations at the 2025 EVU Congress and publication in the proceedings. This year, apart from the traditional “reconstruction” papers, we are also delighted to welcome papers on Event Data Recorders, Digital Traces, Biomechanics of Impact, Electrical Vehicles, Bicycles and e-scooters, Vehicle Design, Human Factors, and for the first time, Artificial Intelligence.
All papers have been reviewed thrice, at the abstract submission phase and at the two-step full paper submission and second review phases. Thank you to all reviewers for their efforts, time and commitment. My warm thanks go particularly to my Friends of the Scientific Board: Wojtek, Andy, Andreas, Max, Robin, Robert and Dragos. Special thanks also to Aart, Shane, Klaus, Lars, Daniel, Ebrahim, Claire, Richard, Andreas and Tom who joined us to review papers and carefully gave recommendations and guidelines to authors for they can improve their initial submissions.
I am finally grateful to authors who spent a lot of time in conducting their research and drafting a paper for the Congress, with certainly pleasure and obstinacy (and hopefully not sweat and tears). We by no doubt owe you what come out of such a congress: the opportunity to meet other and exchange experiences in accident analysis and reconstruction, and, eventually, the chance to learn better and more and improve our daily work as practitioner or researcher.
All papers in these proceedings deserve to be attentively read, commented, used and re-used and even challenged. Interest and usability of papers of course depend on each of us’ needs and objectives, but I have no doubt they will easily and individually find their audience. Accident analysis and reconstruction are permanently evolving and the rapid pace of availabilities of new technologies in vehicles, roads and analysis tools (with, in front line, artificial intelligence) make our discipline even more complex each year.
I wish you all the same pleasure and interest in reading these papers that we had in reviewing them. And beyond their usefulness in our daily work, I wish they can also serve more generally to stakeholders in charge of private or public traffic safety policies, and they can also, at the end, help in preventing road crashes.
Yves Page
Head of the EVU Scientific Board.
EVU
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European Association for Accident Research and Analysis (EVU)
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* Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Accident Reconstruction
(Andreas Moser, Hermann Steffan)
* The Use of Large Language Models in Road Accident Investigation
(Iulius Alexandru Tudor, Florin Gîrbacia)
* Automated Crash Test Video Analysis for Stiffness Coefficient Estimation (Davide Moricoli, Davide Castellucci, Filippo Begani)
* Development of a mobile measuring system for the court-proof detection of overtaking distance offences between motor vehicles and bicycles
(Ronny Fleck, Jörg Schröder, Erik Lenk, Klaus-Dieter Brösdorf, Tibor Kubjatko)
* Lane change processes of cyclists – New results from an ITAI/EVU joined study
(Stephan Schal, Laura Wittkamp)
* A GIDAS analysis of crashes between bicycles and cars for personal protective equipment evaluation
(Ron Schindler)
* Theoretical and Experimental Research on the Emergency Braking Behavior of Electric Scooters (E-scooter)
(Adrian Sachelarie, Gabriel Păduraru, Daria Sachelarie)
* Periodical Technical Inspection – What will it look like for BEVs in the future?
(Markus Gregor, Stefan Peringer, Hans-Georg Schweiger)
* Challenges in the reconstruction of accidents involving high-voltage vehicles – A report from the field
(Michael Katzer, Stefanie Ritter)
* Post-Crash Handling of Electric Vehicles – State of the Art in Germany
(Susanne Lott, Hans-Georg Schweiger)
* Investigations for the validation of an EES catalogue
(Thomas Unger, Yvonne Gudrun Schmidt, Erik Sinen, Klaus-Dieter Brösdorf)
* The Estimation of EES - Methods and Limitations
(David Battistel, Marta Daga, Francesco Balzaretti)
* Hit-and-run or imperceptible?
(Christian Hittinger, Andreas Moser)
* The Point of No Return in Traffic Accident Reconstruction: Theory, Methodology and Application
(Matei Găman, Adrian Ovidiu Șoica, Dragos Dima)
* Using a Suite of Software Programs to Reconstruct a Fatal Collision
(Ian White)
* EDR (Event Data Recorder) and CDR (Crash Data Retrieval) of a Tesla 3 Involved in an Accident
(Jorge Martins, Lucio Machado, Sergio Santos)
* Non-CDR Data Sources
(Patrick Ryan)
* Evaluation of performance of GoPro devices for measuring vehicle acceleration during emergency braking
(Michelle Gowan, Colin Glynn, John Molloy)
* Accuracy of Estimated Speeds from Onboard Video Using Aerial Imagery as the Reference Geometry
(Thomas I. Flynn, Cole R. Young, Gunter P. Siegmund)
* GPS Systems in Accident Analysis – Possibilities and Limitations
(Michael Plank, Andreas Moser, Julian Simader)
* The impact of an inflatable neck brace on injury parameters of the cervical spine in accordance with CEN/TS 17342
(Jovan Trajkovski, Igor Skočič, Robert Kunc)
* Motorcyclist Airbag Protective Apparel: A Clothed Event Data Recorder
(André Doria)
* Visibility problems caused by body parts and dynamic approaches to roundabouts: analysis and solutions
(Joerg Schroeder, Ronny Fleck, Klaus-Dieter Brösdorf, Tibor Kubjatko)
* Research On Automated Vehicles – A Test Bench Approach to Integral Safety
(Stefan Peringer, Robin Langer, Hans-Georg Schweiger)
* Investigation of the gaze behaviour of drivers of trucks and buses [KOM] in the interior and exterior mirrors
(Klaus-Dieter Brösdorf, Andreas Moser)
* Dynamic energy conversions occurring in collisions
(Erik Jeroen Eenkhoorn)
* A Sensitivity Analysis of Two Collision Simulation Software for Some of the Input Parameters of Vehicle – Pedestrian Collisions
(Attila-Iuliu Gönczi)
* Evaluation of Photogrammetry Survey Techniques for Forensic Collision Investigation
(Michelle Gowan , John Molloy, Colin Glynn)
* Evaluation of New Driving Dynamics Simulation with a 3D Multibody Vehicle Model and Force-Balance Collision Analysis
(Florian Pirkner, Matthias Schmidt)
* A Novel Simulation Method for Load Securing “Tie-Down Lashing” in Heavy Commercial Vehicles
(Ferenc Ignacz, Andreas Moser, Dániel Feszty, István Lakatos)
Only members can see the details and the attached documents.