Friday, September 19, 2008
Research Assignments
Lauren – Lighting Research
Andreas – Assisting Systems
Tobi - Existing Measures in Germany
Jenny - Pedestrians
Skype Conclusions (Sept 19th)

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Now, we will develop a Photoshop file with the most common street scenarios in the USA and Germany (comparison).
This is for an integrative visualization of problems and ideas. We want to use a very reduced outline illustration by the perspective from above.
We researched the measurements of streets, lanes, sidewalks for Germany and the US.
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What are the most common types of lights used in American/German cars and street-lamps?
What is the visible range of the light? This is also useful for the correct visualization.
Skype Conclusions (Sept 19th)

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We need information about the majority of cases pedestrians are injured in traffic (maybe the top five in statistics).
· - What happened? (kind of accident)
· - Who is guilty? (perpetrator)
· - Is it a certain peer group or is it related to the age?
With this information we can define problems to solve.
At this topic we will research/ already researched – we will phone/phoned already to special contacts like the service stations of insurances, ambulances, police and interior ministry.
In Germany every possible accident has a specific number/name so we can also name our accidents (see attached files "possible accidents", the letter "f" is always the pedestrian).

