2005, Comparison of several methods for real pedestrian accident reconstruction

The aim of this paper is to evaluate and compare several methods allowing the reconstruction of real accidents involving pedestrians. These different methods have various levels of complications and are commonly used in primary or secondary safety research. They can be classified into three cate-gories corresponding to their levels of complica-tions. The first class concerns ”simple ” method-ologies based on an analytical or semi-analytical approach (”hand-calculi”) such as Searle’s model, Fall and Slide model, equations proposed by Rau et al., Simms et al., etc. The second one is more complicated and considers for example the pedes-trian as a single segment as described by Wood. Fi