In 1980, the European Experimental Vehicles Committee set up a working group to study current knowledge on pedestrian injury prevention. The aim was to: recommend ways to decrease the chance of pedestrian injury in car accidents; and design future research to ascertain whether such recommendations were also appropriate to other road users or not. The Dutch representatives in the working group considered that it was incorrect to accept a priori that those measures appropriate to pedestrians were also the best for drivers of two wheeled vehicles. Simulations of collisions between cars and two wheeled vehicles were carried out using the MADYMO computer program. The results of such simulations were used, together with results from dummy and cadaver experiments, to obtain a more accurate estimation of the speed at the moment of collision. The aim of this research was to improve design of the front of the car and of the bumper to decrease injury to two wheeled vehicle drivers.
Mathematische en Experimentele Simulaties van Botsingen Tussen Personenauto's en Tweewielers (Mathematical and Experimental Simulations of Collisions between Cars and Two-Wheeled Vehicles)
1988
29 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Transportation Safety , Motor vehicle accidents , Collision research , Traffic safety , Computerized simulation , Injuries , Experimental data , Bumpers , Foreign technology , Vehicle bicycle collisions , Automobile safety , Vehicle safety standards , Accident research , Vehicle dynamics , Vehicle design
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