Research highlights ▶ Describes the rationale for a Total Secondary Safety Index of vehicle safety. ▶ Index encapsulates both vehicle crashworthiness and aggressivity performance. ▶ Index is estimated from real world data on injury in crashes reported to police. ▶ Estimation of the index on Australian and New Zealand data sources demonstrated. ▶ Index provides a measure on which to optimise overall vehicle fleet safety.
Abstract Various systems for rating secondary safety of particular makes and models of vehicles have been developed internationally. These measures generally evaluate crashworthiness (the ability of the vehicle to protect its own occupants in the event of a crash) separately from aggressivity (the harm a vehicle is liable to impose on other road users into which it crashes). This paper describes an approach using Australian and New Zealand data that combines these two facets of secondary safety into one ‘Total Secondary Safety Index’ estimated from real world crash outcomes. The Index estimates the risk of death or serious injury to all key road users in crashes involving light passenger vehicles across the full range of crash types. This paper describes the rationale and method for producing this Index, together with some estimates for common Australian and New Zealand makes and models of light passenger vehicles.
Rating the overall secondary safety of vehicles from real world crash data: The Australian and New Zealand Total Secondary Safety Index
Accident Analysis and Prevention ; 43 , 3 ; 637-645
2010-10-05
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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