DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS SIMULATION OF REAL WORLD PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS

This paper describes a study carried out to develop and apply computer analysis tools to simulate accidents between vehicles and pedestrians. The work is timely due to coming proposed regulation and will support the automotive industry and the requirement to design future vehicles that afford pedestrians more protection. The simulations performed aim to represent pedestrian accidents as they occur in the real world. The problems of validating computer models of a humanoid, a vehicle and the mechanics of impact are discussed. To facilitate the analysis of a wide range of impact events, a Design of Experiment (DOE) methodology has been adopted to represent the critical variables. The DOE statistical model has been used to provide conclusions on predictive pedestrian injury criteria and compare them to real world accident data. For the covering abstract see ITRD E117734.

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• Authors:
  • LE GLATIN, N
  • BLUNDELL, M V
  • THORPE, S
  • BLOUNT, G
  • Brown, G
  • ALLAN-STUBBS, B
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VEHICLE SAFETY 2002, HELD MAY 2002 AT THE IMECHE HEADQUARTERS, LONDON, UK
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 345-56

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Pedestrians; Simulation; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1733: Pedestrian; 9103: Simulation; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00944676
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 1-86058-388-1
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 7 2003 12:00AM