GIDAS is the German study for in-depth traffic accident data collection and stands for German In Depth Accident Study.

While the national statistics summarize accident data on the basis of traffic accidents with personal injury documented by the police, the data collected in GIDAS since 1999 are characterized by a significantly higher and interdisciplinary depth of detail. A defined sampling and adaptable weighting procedure ensures that the data is as representative as possible in comparison to federal statistics. Scientific evaluations with the GIDAS data make it possible to identify traffic safety problems and potentials. Based on this knowledge, targeted measures can be derived or regulations on national and international level for vehicle technology, behavior in traffic, infrastructural and also (rescue / emergency) medical aspects can be drawn up or further developed that lead to a reduction in the number of people killed and injured in road traffic.

The project is financed by the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) and the Research Association for Automotive Technology e.V. (FAT), which are working together on the basis of a cooperation agreement to increase traffic and vehicle safety.

This is the information page of the part of the GIDAS project commissioned by the FAT.
Click here to go to the official GIDAS website of BASt.

Data collection and accident reconstruction are performed by the following institutions:

• Verkehrsunfallforschung an der TU Dresden GmbH (VUFO)
• Accident Research Unit at Medical Highschool of Hannover (MHH) .
• Working group consisting of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Hochschule München (HM) and Klinikum der LMU.