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  • HeavyTruck RearImpactGuard Finite Element Simulation and Analysis
    Heavy-Truck Rear-Impact-Guard Finite Element Simulation and Analysis
    Jones, Derek A ;
    Kalmar-Gonzalo, Alex
    2025-07-01 | PDF
    This report describes finite element modeling to develop computational models of rear-impact semi-trailer guards used to simulate quasi-static tests prescribed by FMVSS No. 223 tests as well as a motor vehicle crash into the rear of a truck semi-trailer. For the crash simulations, existing FE models of passenger cars were applied, along with models ...
  • Vehicle Safety Recall Completion Rates
    Vehicle Safety Recall Completion Rates
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Office of Defects Investigations
    2025-01-01 | PDF
    This report builds on the foundation established by three earlier congressional reports required under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), enacted in 2015. Section 24104 mandated biennial analyses of vehicle safety recall completion rates, culminating in the submission of the final required report in compliance with this dir ...
  • Review of Literature Addressing Pedestrian Injury Risk and Motor Vehicle Characteristics Task 1
    Review of Literature Addressing Pedestrian Injury Risk and Motor Vehicle Characteristics — Task 1
    Frazier, Heather ;
    Roulett, Margaret
    2025-01-01 | PDF
    NHTSA contracted the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress to conduct four distinct literature and data reviews: (1) literature concerning pedestrian injury risk and vehicle size, (2) literature investigating vehicle testing for pedestrian protection (i.e., hood and leg form testing), (3) current and projected vehicle market trends a ...
    Supporting Files
  • Annotated Bibliography of Pedestrian Data Sources Task 4
    Annotated Bibliography of Pedestrian Data Sources — Task 4
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Office of Vehicle Safety Research
    2025-01-01 | XLS
    NHTSA contracted the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress to conduct four distinct literature and data reviews: (1) literature concerning pedestrian injury risk and vehicle size, (2) literature investigating vehicle testing for pedestrian protection (i.e., hood and leg form testing), (3) current and projected vehicle market trends a ...
    Supporting Files
  • Review of Literature Addressing Effects of Pedestrian SafetyRelated Test Requirements on Vehicle Design Fleet Composition and Pedestrian Injury Task 2
    Review of Literature Addressing Effects of Pedestrian Safety-Related Test Requirements on Vehicle Design, Fleet Composition, and Pedestrian Injury — Task 2
    Frazier, Heather ;
    Flanders, A R
    2025-01-01 | PDF
    NHTSA contracted the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress to conduct four distinct literature and data reviews: (1) literature concerning pedestrian injury risk and vehicle size, (2) literature investigating vehicle testing for pedestrian protection (i.e., hood and leg form testing), (3) current and projected vehicle market trends a ...
  • HeavyDuty Vehicle Transmission Benchmarking Volvo IShift 12Speed Automated Manual Transmission
    Heavy-Duty Vehicle Transmission Benchmarking – Volvo I-Shift 12-Speed Automated Manual Transmission
    Wileman, Craig
    2025-01-01 | PDF
    The objective of this project was to evaluate and characterize the Volvo I-Shift 12-speed AMT (automated manual transmission) available for use in heavy-duty vehicles produced for the North American market. The evaluation of this transmission consisted of in-gear efficiency mapping, torque converter mapping, torque converter engagement strategy cha ...
  • Passenger Vehicle Surrogate Test Target Radar Return Repeatability
    Passenger Vehicle Surrogate Test Target Radar Return Repeatability
    Zeits, Roger ;
    Nagy, Ian
    2025-01-01 | PDF
    This report identified the variance in the radar cross section (RCS) of one vehicle test device (VTD), a test surrogate designed to emulate a small passenger car. Additional RCS measurements were performed on various types of vehicles for comparison with the VTD. Descriptions of the test equipment, measurement process, evaluation method, and result ...
  • Review of Literature Addressing Vehicle Pedestrian Safety Market Trends Task 3
    Review of Literature Addressing Vehicle Pedestrian Safety Market Trends — Task 3
    McQuistion, Ian ;
    Flanders, A R
    2025-01-01 | PDF
    NHTSA contracted the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress to conduct four distinct literature and data reviews: (1) literature concerning pedestrian injury risk and vehicle size, (2) literature investigating vehicle testing for pedestrian protection (i.e., hood and leg form testing), (3) current and projected vehicle market trends a ...
    Supporting Files
  • Testing RearDoorLogic Based Unattended Child Reminder Systems
    Testing Rear-Door-Logic Based Unattended Child Reminder Systems
    Prasad, Aloke ;
    Snyder, Avary
    2024-12-01 | PDF
    From 1998 to 2023 there were 971 reported deaths in the United States due to pediatric vehicular heatstroke (PVH), an average of 37 PVH deaths per year. Unattended child reminder systems (UCRS), also known as child presence detection (CPD) systems, use direct sensing methods to detect or indirect sensing methods to infer the presence of a child ins ...
  • THOR50M InDummy Data Acquisition System Evaluation
    THOR-50M In-Dummy Data Acquisition System Evaluation
    Watkins, Laura ;
    Millis, William
    2024-12-01 | PDF
    This report describes the methods, procedures, and analysis used to evaluate the Test Device for Human Occupant Restraint 50th percentile male (THOR-50M) dummy without an internal data acquisition system (DAS) and a THOR-50M with an internal DAS. Qualification and crash testing were performed to investigate the differences in responses generated by ...
  • A Teardown Study of FloodDamaged Electric Vehicles
    A Teardown Study of Flood-Damaged Electric Vehicles
    Tanim, Tanvir ;
    Prucha, Tom
    2024-11-01 | PDF
    The objective of this research was to perform a teardown analysis on ten flood-damaged electric vehicles (EVs) recovered after Hurricane Ian in 2022. Nine of the vehicles retained a high state of charge, despite the water exposure and 10 months of storage. Upon inspection, infiltration pathways of saltwater into the battery packs were identified. T ...
  • LightDuty Vehicle Transmission Benchmarking 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime P810 Transmission and Q610 Rear Axle
    Light-Duty Vehicle Transmission Benchmarking – 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime P810 Transmission and Q610 Rear Axle
    Wileman, Craig
    2024-10-01 | PDF
    This report benchmarks the 2021 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid P810 electric continuously variable transmission and its Q610 electric rear axle. Benchmarking tasks include component and system level performance of overall transmission efficiency, torque converter performance, in-gear inertia maps, oil pump mapping, ratio determination, and shifting and convert ...
  • WorldSID50M Repeatability and Reproducibility of Qualification Tests
    WorldSID-50M Repeatability and Reproducibility of Qualification Tests
    Rhule, Dan
    2024-09-01 | PDF
    In July 2022 NHTSA published a report summarizing the repeatability and reproducibility evaluation of the Worldwide Harmonized Side Impact Dummy 50th percentile adult male dummy (WorldSID-50M) in qualification tests. After minor revisions to the WorldSID-50M’s thorax, NHTSA determined that an updated assessment of the WorldSID-50M’s repeatability a ...
  • Assessment of Driver Monitoring Systems for Alcohol Impairment Detection and Level 2 Automation
    Assessment of Driver Monitoring Systems for Alcohol Impairment Detection and Level 2 Automation
    Prendez, David M ;
    Brown, James L.
    2024-09-01 | PDF
    This report reviews and assesses driver monitoring systems (DMS) and related technologies for alcohol impairment detection and Level 2 partial driving automation systems. A key focus reviewed systems being developed to detect alcohol-caused driving impairment as well as systems that can precisely estimate blood alcohol concentrations. These were cl ...
  • Crash Safety Considerations for SpeedLimited ADS Shuttles
    Crash Safety Considerations for Speed-Limited ADS Shuttles
    Reichert, Rudolf ;
    Kan, Cing-Dao
    2024-08-01 | PDF
    This report and the research in it explore important crash safety aspects when shuttles equipped with Automated Driving Systems and of different mass and size are struck by light passenger vehicles (LPVs) at various speeds in crossing the centerline frontal, crossing path side, and rear impact configurations. ADS shuttles with gross vehicle weight ...
  • Material Flammability Test Procedure Development Support
    Material Flammability Test Procedure Development Support
    Huczek, Jason P ;
    Janssens, Marc L.
    2024-07-01 | PDF
    This report describes results of a research program that is a follow-up project to previous work documented in NHTSA’s, “Potential Alternative Methodology for Evaluating Flammability of Interior Automotive Materials” to improve the repeatability and reproducibility of evaluating the flammability of interior materials that are difficult to test per ...
  • Consumer Guide to Uniform Tire Quality Grading
    Consumer Guide to Uniform Tire Quality Grading
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Office of Vehicle Safety Research
    2024-07-01 | PDF
    Comparative grade designations for treadwear, traction and temperature for all passenger car tires, except deep tread, winter-type snow tires; space-saver or temporary use spares; or tires with normal rim diameters of 12 inches or less.
  • Development of Side Impact Test Procedures for Improved Wheelchair Transportation Safety
    Development of Side Impact Test Procedures for Improved Wheelchair Transportation Safety
    Klinich, Kathleen D. ;
    Manary, Miriam A.
    2024-06-01 | PDF
    This report presents the development of side impact test procedures for evaluating wheelchairs, wheelchair tiedowns and occupant restraint systems (WTORS), and vehicle-based occupant protection systems for wheelchair seating stations. The background includes review of existing relevant voluntary standards and past research. Tasks to develop the tes ...
  • Review of Technology to Prevent AlcoholandDrug Impaired Crashes Update
    Review of Technology to Prevent Alcohol-and-Drug Impaired Crashes: Update
    Pollard, John K. ;
    Nadler, Eric D
    2024-05-01 | PDF
    This report examines the state of the art and availability of technology to prevent alcohol- and drug-impaired driving by reviewing the progress of automakers, suppliers, and technology developers since 2007, when the Review of Technology to Prevent Alcohol-Impaired Crashes (TOPIC) was published. The present examination increases the scope of the 2 ...
  • Restraint Design for Obese Occupants First of Four Parts
    Restraint Design for Obese Occupants [First of Four Parts]
    Joodaki, Hamed ;
    Gepner, Bronek
    2024-05-01 | PDF
    This study drew conclusions by conducting research in five different parts: the effect of obesity on the risk of injury to different body regions; the most frequent injuries of occupants with and without obesity and the potential injury mechanism of the most frequent injuries of occupants with obesity; quantified comparison of the response of a Glo ...
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