The invention relates to a method for determining at least one safety-critical peak region (R1, R2, R3) using an
indicator value (Z) for the statistical characterization of location-based event descriptions recorded by at least one vehicle. Based on a road or navigation map, those road segments without inflows or outflows are identified whose
segment length is equal to or greater than a predetermined minimum
segment length. Adjacent identified road segments are connected to form a segment chain (10) with a starting point (11) and an endpoint (12). Event descriptions, comprising a geoposition (P1, P2) and at least one parameter of a vehicle environment model, are recorded by vehicles and transmitted to an analysis
system.The analysis
system assigns to each geoposition (P1, P2) of an event description the nearest road network location (O1, O2) of a segment chain (10) and describes it by a longitudinal distance (L, L1, L2) relative to the starting point (11) of the segment chain (10). For at least one segment chain (10), a density value (p) of event descriptions, relative to the longitudinal distance (L, L1, L2) to the starting point (11), is determined using a kernel density estimator with a predetermined bandwidth. The density value (p) is then transformed into a Z-shaped curve (Z1, Z2) of a Z-value (Z) that is mean-free with respect to the bandwidth, using a local Z-
standardization based on the bandwidth.Each area of interconnected road network locations (O1, O2) along a chain of sections (10) between a peak start (Lmin) and a peak end (Lmax) along the motorway-like road (100), where the Z-value (Z) exceeds a predetermined threshold (θ), is identified as a safety-critical peak region (R1, R2, R3).