Abstract: The article draws attention to the rapid increase in the popularity of motorized two-wheeled vehicles as a practical means of transport and the associated higher number of road accidents involving them. The possibilities of using telematics to improve the safety of group riding for two-wheeled vehicles are presented. The basic problems of using location data in the discussed situation and in relation to two-wheeled vehicles are indicated.1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, a significant, although still unsatisfactory, decrease in the number of accidents and their victims on Polish roads can be observed. However, there is a group of road users that seems not only not to be subject to these downward trends, but on the contrary – is constantly increasing. This group consists of users of motorized two-wheeled vehicles, mainly motorcycles. A precise analysis of the risks of two-wheeled vehicles in road traffic in Poland is difficult because Polish road safety statistics only began to include moped and motorcycle riders more broadly from 2006, and even then, the scope of this data is extremely limited. It does not include scooters as a separate group at all, does not make a division based on engine power or vehicle weight, does not take into account the ratio of vehicle weight to engine power, etc. Therefore, in the analysis of this issue, statistical data from the first fifteen EU member states [1] and American experience, contained in the so-called Hurt report [2], which is a unique global study devoted to the statistical analysis of the causes of road accidents involving motorcyclists, become essential. Based on them, it can be stated that the increase in the popularity and number of users of two-wheeled vehicles is always accompanied, at least in the
initial period, by an increase in the number of road accidents involving their users (riders and passengers). Importantly, these accidents carry a many times higher risk of mortality than similar accidents involving multi-track vehicles. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine