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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PIONEERS (PROTECTIVE INNOVATIONS OF NEW EQUIPMENT FOR ENHANCED RIDER SAFETY)

Teaser

Summary

The main pillars of PIONEERS are to achieve a deep understanding of the injuries sustained by PTW users, improve the performance of safety systems (Personal Protective Equipment, PPEs, and on-board systems), to develop better test and assessment methods and to increase the use rate of PPE.

The improved performance will be achieved by understanding the most safety-critical accident scenarios and impact conditions to reach a higher level of understanding on how the injuries occur and by developing more reliable, realistic and robust test methods. An increased use will be fulfilled by listening to the riderâ€™s needs, improving the systems in terms of comfort (without compromising safety) and carrying out active awareness raising and dissemination actions.
The main goal of the PIONEERS project is to improve the safety of PTWs (both conventional and electric) by providing an integrated approach to rider protection considering on-rider (PPE) and on-board systems. Therefore, this project will investigate and assess the direct contribution to the reduction of fatalities and the severity of injuries, as well as the number of injured PTW users. The tools for that are developing new PPEs and on-board safety systems, as well as improving the validation and assessment methods and increasing the usage rate of such devices. Developing high-quality products (PPEs and on-board systems) from the European manufacturers and sensitizing the PTW users for the enhanced safety potential of those products will not only increase the safety level for PTW users but will also strengthen European competitiveness.

Finally, the main results of PIONEERS will be:
- Higher understanding of injuries suffered by the riders.
- Better testing methods enabling better performance assessment.
- Better products (PPEs and on-board systems) achieving an increased safety level for PTW users.

Work performed

In terms of management the work performed from the beginning of the project has been the definition of quality and risk procedures and a identification of the innovation management plan as well as the definition of the open data research pilot and all the ethics deliverables submitted.

Regarding the technical work, a road traffic accident scenarios and common injuries had been studied in order to perform a background as a first step of the PIONEERS project. Once the scenarios had been identified, in a second step a study about the rider\'s need had been performed.

At this moment the project is focused on test procedures for PPE, helmet and full vehicle in order to develop the new generation of PPEs and adapt them to the new tests methods.

Final results

The objectives achieved by the study of the accident scenarios and rider needs were useful to a better understanding of the safety issues PTW encounter on real roads. This work was focused on:

- Identifying the Key Accident Scenarios in Europe in terms of frequency and severity.
- Drawing an empathy map with PTW users to better understand the issues they encounter as users mainly related to use of PPEs.
- Define the current and future scenarios relevant for the development of safety measures.

During the first WP, the partners identified the most common PTW accident scenarios (from national accident databases) and injuries (from in-depth accident databases). The work done during this WP will serve as input for the next WPs.
The rider\'s needs were useful to identify the most critical aspects of the safety systems from the final user perspective.

Based on the detailed accident data collected a simulation is performed according mechanisms with Finite-Elements human body models. The analysis in the virtual environment will allow a deep understanding on how injuries can potentially be prevented. Also it is important to deriving injury criteria and concepts of pass/fail assessment for the future personal protective equipment testing.

In this phase of the project the new era of test methods is being developed to ensure a good quality of PPEs for airbag jackets, boots, helmet, pelvic protectors and on-board safety systems.