United States Department of Transportation
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Assessment of Vehicle Characteristics
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2001-01-01
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Abstract:The objective of this study is to identify a protocol for establishing generic vehicle platforms for light duty vehicles that are meaningful for assessing the impact performance of roadside safety features across the vehicle spectrum. The scope of work involved evaluation of future motor vehicle trends for passenger cars and light trucks; assessment of how these trends may affect roadside safety performance; development of protocols for selection of vehicles to evaluate roadside safety performance of the vehicle fleet through fullscale crash testing or computer simulation; and evaluation of impact performance of selected passenger car and light truck platforms. Information regarding the safety performance of a vehicle or class of vehicles can be classified as either predictive or retrospective. Predictive data are based on full-scale crash testing and computer simulation. Retrospective analysis is based on historical observations such as the collection and analysis of accident data and insurance claim data. Under this project, the evaluation of vehicle platforms was broadly classified into three categories: statistical and descriptive analysis of vehicle parameter data, computer simulation, and crash data analysis. The results are used in comparative analyses for purposes of grouping or classifying different vehicles into performance-based platforms and evaluating the impact performance associated with vehicles in different platforms. A discussion of the findings in each of these areas is presented.
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