WG1 Real-world Accident and injury data including Medicine and Injury cost

The Working group 1 is led by the VSRC and co-led by the LAB and LMU. Its work is structured by seven task forces (TF), which are listed below. Several of these task forces are running in parallel and all will ultimately contribute to the foundation of an integrated research pool within the Virtual Centre of Excellence. This real-world data research pool will provide a forum for the continuing evaluation of casualty reduction benefits and the co-ordination of further research initiatives.

TF1 Evaluation of passive safety casualty reduction from past and current research programmes (4FP, 5FP, national projects, regulatory and consumer programmes).

TF2 Medicine and injury costs in order to review knowledge in Injury Scaling, Development of Impairment Scales as well to overlook European Injury Cost Situation and to intensify contacts with Accidentology and Clinical Medicine in old and new Member states and evaluate the contribution to casualty reduction.

TF3 Issues associated with the new member states including the sharing of information, knowledge and methods between the established and new member states, in the field of real-world accident and injury data.

TF4 Traditional dissemination activities within the field of real-world accident and injury data and medicine. Information exchange workshops bringing together 5FP, national projects, and the like.

TF5 Evaluation of passive and integrated safety casualty reduction from concurrent research programmes currently proposed in 6FWP Integrated Projects. Most notably these will include the sub-projects within the Advanced Protective systems IP, ISAAC (Information System and Accident Analysis for Road Care in Europe) and the SafetyNet IP (European Traffic Safety Information System).

TF6 Identification of further gains and associated research on the basis of TF5, which could be directed at:

• Implementing and exchanging the knowledge and experience of the medical staff from the Forensic Medicine Department of the Medical University of Warsaw, providing access to specific in-depth Real Accident and Injury Data, collected from the Warsaw Area (Viseb)
• Provide an in-depth accident database, the first one in Spain, developed in close collaboration with the Spanish authorities and analysis the whole Spanish accidental situation with access to the largest Spanish accident extensive database (CIDAUT)
• Provision of data from real-world accidents in urban and inner-city roads as well as accident reconstruction capabilities (IDIADA)
• Provision of a general European Database information on accident rate in Poland (PIMOT)

TF7 Determine the real-world data forum within the Virtual Centre of Excellence. On the basis of the expertise and experience of the previous 6 tasks it will be possible to determine the terms of reference, research brief and constitution of the integrated research pool within the emerging Virtual Centre of Excellence.

For more information on this working group, please contact its leader: Ms Rachel Grant (VSRC).