This report summarizes the approach, activities, and results of a study to evaluate the potential safety benefits of Plastics and Composites Intensive Vehicles (PCIVs), to enable their deployment by 2020. The main goals were to review and assess the state of knowledge in order to identify gaps, key research needs, and the challenges and opportunities for safety enhancements. PCIVrelated safety enhancements that could benefit an aging driver population were selected as a priority research focus. The Situation Analysis was conducted, based on a review of technical literature, national research efforts on automotive light-weighting and the crash safety performance of advanced materials, complemented by a focused survey of diverse subject matter experts. The analysis identified near-term, midterm, and long-term research needs and priorities to facilitate future PCIV deployment. A PCIV Safety Roadmap was developed, which synthesizes the study findings and outlines follow-on research and milestones to measure progress towards the design, development and technology integration of fuel-efficient and safe PCIVs by 2020.
Safety Roadmap for Future Plastics and Composites Intensive Vehicles
2007
104 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Materials Sciences , Automotive crash safety , Light duty vehicles , Advanced materials , Plastics , Composite materials , Aged drivers , Technology assessment , Fuel economy , Surveys , Integration , Crash safety standards , Public private partnership , Research needs , Plastics and composites and intensive vehicles(PCIVs)
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