The main aim of EU´s Vision Zero is “no fatalities or serious injures through road accidents should be met by 2030”. With this long-term road safety strategy, the EU wants to purposefully and gradually overcome the failures of previous measures that have failed to result in reducing the number of road accidents victims. The last three years of EU policy on road safety have improved this area only minimally.
This paper provides an analysis of the EU road safety strategies and deals mainly with the directive on the cross-border exchange of information. This directive seems to have become an effective tool for the prevention of cross-border traffic offences from a long-term perspective. The main aim of this directive is to take preventive action against road traffic offenders in order to correct their road behaviour through sanctions to discourage them from committing more serious offences, including fatal accidents. This article also outlines current crucial findings resulting from the application of this directive, which should be resolved by its planned revision.
This paper deals with the issue of rapid, indicative identification of the age of a vehicle using time stamps on various components of the vehicle for technical, commercial, safety and forensic purposes. The main aim of the paper is the possibility of using markings of individual vehicle windows or “window stamps”, in which the times of production of the windows are encrypted in various ways. An analysis of time markings on vehicle windows was conducted on the basis of an extensive collection of photographs of windows from 980 basic vehicle models manufactured between 1991 and 2021, and acquired between 2015 and 2021 as part of the Europe-wide initiative eCall. Research found that 98.8% of all common motor vehicle window panes on the European market come with one of only three basic types of window stamps, which were named Euro-American, Japanese and Korean. The paper provides a detailed description of the structure and decoding of vehicle window stamps of the three specified basic types.
Individuální identifikace objektu je výchozím nebo konečným stavem každé forenzní analýzy či dokumentace. Příspěvek se zaměřuje ve své první části na základní a doplňkové zásady forenzní identifikace objektů. Jsou popsány 4 základní a 2 doplňkové zásady. Ve druhé části se příspěvek zaměřuje na individuální identifikaci vozidla. Zásadní akcent je dán na nový způsob určení identity vozidla pomocí digitálně uloženého VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) do různých elektronických komponent moderního vozidla. Je popsán způsob, jak pomocí tzv. "VIN čtečky" lze jednotným způsobem u automobilů různých továrních značek vyčítat VIN nebo další objektové identifikátory z významných komponent vozidla, u kterých jsou digitálně ukládána rozmanitá data. Příspěvek seznamuje čtenáře s novou metodou identifikace vozidla, pomocí které lze nalézt odcizená vozidla resp. neodborně zaměněné klíčové komponenty vozidla, které mohou pocházet i z trestné činnosti.
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