Traffic Accident Expertise | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Traffic Accident Expertise (17.S0433)

Native organizations units: Department of Traffic Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Traffic and Transport Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Traffic Planning, Regulation and Safety
ECTS	6

Acquiring basic engineering knowledge in the field of traffic accident expertise. Mastering the procedures and methods for performing expertise and reconstruction of traffic accidents.

Acquiring knowledge in the field of traffic accident expertise necessary for individual work. Knowledge application in procedures for defining the places of accidents and the speed of participants in characteristic positions. Understanding the meaning of the time-space analysis in the situation of a traffic accident. Providing reports and opinions. Introduction to and mastering the basis of contemporary software tools intended for expertise and reconstruction of traffic accidents.

Notion, subject and significance of traffic accidents expertise. Analysis on the process of motion and stopping of motor vehicles. Adopting important parameters for traffic accident analysis. Determining the place of collision and the direction of movement of accident participants. Determining the speed of traffic accident participants. Expertise on characteristic types of traffic accidents. Time-space analysis on the accident. Methods for elaborating a report on the traffic accident expertise – form and content of the report and expert opinion. Evaluation on the damage on motor vehicles. Computer application in traffic accident analyses and expertise.

Lectures, computing and numerical–computer practice and consultations. During the course, students should take the partial examination as a prerequisite for taking the written part of the examination.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Practical part of the exam - tasks	No	Yes	40.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	4.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	2.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Laboratory exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	4.00