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Proceedings: International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles

Journal Volume: 1995
Journal Issue:
Journal Year: 1995
Articles in SafetyLit: 160

25 years of esv development. Opportunities and risks of government-induced goals

A complete frontal crash sensor system - ii

A contribution to the analysis of aggressivity in frontal collisions

A new approach to quantify passive safety of vehicles

A review of motorcycle safety

A study of front underrun protectors for heavy vehicles

A study of impact test procedure for steering wheel to reduce facial injuries

Aama (american automobile manufacturers association) side impact protection research: past, present and future

Abdominal response to steering wheel loading

Accident research and experimental data useful for an understanding of the influence of car structural incompatibility on the risk of accident injury

Accident risks for two-wheelers in france: safety of two-wheelers is largely subject to the skill and vigilance of car drivers

Acea (association des constructeurs europeens d'automobiles) investigations regarding hybrid iii chest deflection

Active and passive safety of the new man interurban coach frh 422

Active counter-measures testing on actual accident sites

Advanced injury criteria and crash evaluation techniques

Advances in finite element modelling of the eurosid-1 dummy

Advances in side impact simulation procedures

An analysis method for rollover strength of bus structures

An effectiveness analysis of chrysler driver airbags after five years exposure

An estimate of the long term consequences of motor vehicle injuries

An on-board system for detecting lapses of alertness in car driving

Analysis of a safety advertising claim on vehicle crashworthiness

Analysis of the history of pedestrian leg injury severity in road accidents

Assessing steering wheel impacts using a hybrid iii and deformable load sensing face

Assessment of passive safety by crash tests and accident statistics

Assessment of the safety of automobiles

Australia's new car assessment program

Automatic distance keeping: a vehicle comfort system for improving safety?

Automotive head-up displays for navigation use

Behavioural and cognitive impact of night-time driving with hud (head-up display) contact analogue infra-red imaging

Biofidelity improvements to the hybrid iii neck

Biomechanical risk factors for children in cars and aggravation by misuse of restraint systems

Car driver behaviour in turning right in front of oncoming vehicle

Car phone and road safety

Car size and safety: a review focused on identifying causative factors

Child restraint system development in australia

City cars - a new challenge for occupant safety systems

Comparison of human facial tolerance and mechanical models

Comparison of road users' injury typology at ten year intervals (first part)

Computer simulation model for side impact analysis

Concept of hood design for possible reduction in pedestrian head injury

Correlation of vehicle performance in the new car assessment program with fatality risk in actual head-on collisions

Cost of pedestrian and bicycle accidents involving car front ends

Countermeasure assessment on real crash sites part 1 - description

Crash analysis of vehicle body structures using a buckling sensitivity analysis

Crash outcome data evaluation system - data linkage of medical patient records with highway crash data

Design and testing of a replaceable low speed shock absorber

Development and design of a new 18-month-old child dummy

Development of a drowsiness warning system

Development of an anatomic 3-d (three-dimensional) finite element model of the human head utilizing ct (computer tomography) data

Development of an australian design rule for seat belts in heavy omnibuses

Development of an iso (international standards organisation) standard for motorcycle research impact test procedures

Driver workload assessment of in-cab high technology devices

Drowsiness of the driver: eeg (electroencephalogram) and vehicle parameters interaction

Dynamic stability control dsc - a wheel slip control system with extended function

Effects of rear seat belts - full scale collision experiments and field case studies

Electric vehicle specifications for competitive marketing

Emerging trends in safety design and technology

Enhanced safety for light trucks and vans

Euro-scout - safe driving with real time traffic information

Evaluation of pedestrian protection test procedure in japan - influence of upper body mass on leg impact test

Evaluation of restraint system for coach passengers

Evaluation of thoracic trauma in a frontal impact

Evaluation of trl (transport research laboratory) designed leg protectors for a medium sized sport motorcycle

Experience and data analysis on side impact testing according to the european procedure

Experimental study on absorbed energy of side structure of passenger cars by 90-degree side-impact test

Experimentally-induced frontal bone/facial fractures in human cadavers wit a characterization of impact response

Fatality reduction by automatic occupant protection in the united states

Feasibility study of optical deflection sensing system in the aatd (advanced anthropomorphic test device) thorax

Finite element dummies for frontal impact

Finite element modelling and analysis of thorax/restraint system interaction

Five years experience of using eurosid-1 in sled and car tests

Foot loads and footwell intrusion in an offset frontal crash

Fuel truck roll-over simulation

Global trends in side impact occupant protection

Heavy goods vehicles safety considerations

High performance cars, age and sex of the drivers: effects on risk and safety

How safe can lightweight cars be? An analytical study of the limits of passive safety

How to evaluate the performance of a truck in the car to truck frontal crash

Human factors issues in advanced rear signalling systems

Impact studies of embalmed human cadaver thighs and femurs

Impairment pattern in passenger car crashes, a follow-up of injuries resulting in long-term consequences

Improved frontal impact crash test data

Improved protection through greater compatibility between road vehicles

Improvement in vehicle dynamics through electronic control system of the torque split between the right/left rear wheels

In depth analysis of frontal collisions as regards the influence of overlap and intrusion on occupant severe and fatal injuries

Influence of corrosion on the passive safety of passenger cars

Injuries sustained by air bag occupants in frontal crashes

Injury criteria in real and simulated side collisions

Innovative padding design for side impact protection

Intelligent occupant protection systems

Interaction of air bags and child restraint systems

Intervehicle communication system

Introduction of compatibility in the development of a frontal test procedure

Laboratory assessment of the potential for airbag-induced skin abrasion

Mathematical model of pedestrian lower extremity

Mathematical models to evaluate structural forces in frontal crash tests

Measurement of submarining on hybrid III 50 degree and 5 degree percentile dummies

Methodologies for evaluating the impact on safety of intelligent vehicle highway systems

Mid-atlantic driver air bag

Mobility and safety: the mature driver's challenge

Modeling of eevc (european experimental vehicles committee) pedestrian headforms and experience with bonnet impact tests

Motorcycle impact performance

New sensor concepts for reliable detection of side-impact collisions

Nhtsa's (national highway traffic safety administration's) ivhs (intelligent vehicle highway systems) collision avoidance research program: strategic plan and status update

Numerical and experimental simulation of different load cases in side impacts

Opportunities and limits of an airbag optimization based on the passive requirements of standard 208

Opportunities for casualty reduction in rollover crashes

Overview of research on driver drowsiness definition and driver drowsiness detection

Photogrammetry used for measurement in field accident studies - development of a new simple system

Prediction of thoracic injuries by means of accelerations, deflections and the viscous criteria derived from full-scale side-impacts

Preliminary research into the feasibility of motorcycle airbag systems

Priorities of real car crashes and the agreement of real accidents with results from crash testing

Program of comparison of side impact testing methods

Progress in the development of new frontal dummy components for the nhtsa (national highway traffic safety administration) advanced frontal protection program

Prospects for the further improvement of side impact protection based on crash testing

Protection for the thorax injury severity in the 90-degree lateral collision

Protection of pedestrians against leg injuries

Real world collisions and appropriate barrier tests

Rear seat safety of estate cars - new concepts

Rear-end collisions - the effect of the seat-belt and the crash pulse on occupant motion

Requirements for optimized crashworthiness design of the longitudinal members

Research on forward field of view of trucks

Safe manoeuvers in adverse weather conditions - a simulation study of entering a motorway

Safety benefits of fast-rise brake lamps

Safety effects and driver acceptance of an autonomous distance warning and intervention system: results from field trials

Safety of alternatively fueled motor vehicles in the united states: the federal safety program

Sensing side impacts

Sensor for a side airbag: evaluation by a new subsystem test method

Severe and fatal lesions in cars fitted with airbags: case reports

Side impact crashes in australia

Side impact requirements in the usa and europe - a critical comparison

Simulation on front glass ghost image

Simultaneous engineering in frontal impact crashworthiness development

Sipsbag - a new, seat-mounted side impact airbag system

Smart tm airbag system

Stress in driving related to vehicle safety

Study on a vehicle body structure for passive safety

Study on active safety using driving simulator: "driver's steering quality in a monotonous driving"

Systems optimization of vehicle crashworthiness

Test procedures for evaluating out-of-position vehicle occupant interactions with deployed airbags

The air inflator - a contribution to improving the airbag system

The application of the crash victim simulation with airbag to recreational vehicle

The crash-anticipating extended airbag bumper system

The eevc-wg (european experimental vehicles committee working group) 10 head impact test procedure in practical use

The effect of air bag inflation on the cinematic and the lesions of a motorcyclist

The effectiveness of abs (anti locking brakes) in real life accidents

The effects of the skull/dura interface and foraman magnum on pressure response during head impact

The field of vision of drivers during nighttime

The influence of foot placement and vehicular intrusion on occupant lower limb injury in full-frontal and frontal-offset crashes

The offset crash against a deformable barrier, a more realistic frontal impact

The older driver problem: an epidemiological overview

The presentation of headway information to drivers

The psychophysiological characterisation of driver's behavior as a tool for active safety

The use of crash recorders in studying real life accidents

Theoretical optimization study of an airbag system

Thoracic and pelvis human response to impact

U.S. Efforts to improve heavy truck occupant crash protection and reduce aggressivity in frontal truck/car collisions

Unsafe practices of lorry drivers on long gradients

Vision enhancement - concepts for the future?