Vehicle technical inspection results in relation to EU directives and selected EU countries

Klemenc, Jernej (author), Šeruga, Domen (author), Svetina, Tomaž (author), Tršelič, Jože (author)

Although road accidents caused by defective vehicles are relatively rare, the roadworthiness of vehicles is important for road safety. In the European Union, the technical conditions that need to be fulfilled by the vehicles using public roads are regulated by EU directives. According to these directives, technical inspections are organized in every EU country. Our study analyzed the vehicle technical inspections in Slovenia over four consecutive years. The statistics for passenger cars and commercial vehicles are compared with two other EU countries: Germany and Finland. From this comparison, it follows that certain differences exist between the countries, although vehicle technical inspections are regulated by the same EU directives. Finally, multivariate regression models were built to predict probabilities of various vehicle defects detected during regular technical supervision as a function of the vehicle’s age. It was found that the probability of fault detection can be effectively modelled as a function of vehicle age.

• Language: English
• Keywords: passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, technical supervision, fault statistics, statistical modelling
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 455-470
• Numbering: Vol. 69, no. 11/12
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154121
• UDC: 629.3:004.415.52
• ISSN on article: 0039-2480
• DOI: 10.5545/sv-jme.2023.595
• COBISS.SI-ID: 182574851
• Publication date in RUL: 26.01.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Strojniški vestnik
• Shortened title: Stroj. vestn.
• Publisher: Zveza strojnih inženirjev in tehnikov Slovenije [etc.], = Association of Mechanical Engineers and Technicians of Slovenia [etc.
• ISSN: 0039-2480
• COBISS.SI-ID: 762116

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Analiza uspešnosti tehničnih pregledov vozil glede na directive EU in izbrane države EU
• Keywords: osebna vozila, gospodarska vozila, tehnični pregledi, statistika napak, statistično modeliranje

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: V2-1929
• Name: Analiza napak na vozilih ugotovljenih pri postopkih tehničnih pregledov vozil s konvencionalnimi statističnimi metodami in z metodami rudarjenja podatkov