Future vehicle safety in Australia and the role of the Australasian New Car Assessment Program

For more than twenty years the Australasian New Car Assessment Programs (ANCAP) has encouraged improvements in vehicle safety beyond the regulatory system. ANCAP has announced plans to align its safety ratings with those of Euro NCAP from 2018. This will result in greater emphasis on crash avoidance technologies such as autonomous emergency braking (AEB) as well as protection of small occupants, pedestrians and cyclists. We review the influence of ANCAP on improved crashworthiness of the vehicle fleet and the uptake of key vehicle safety technologies. The trends show that ANCAP can have a substantial influence on the safety of the future Australian light vehicle fleet.

• Record URL:
  http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Extended abstract only
• Authors:
  • Paine, M
  • Case, M
  • Haley, J
  • McGrane, D
  • Paine, D
  • Smith, J
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 2016, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Publication Date: 2016-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2016 Australasian Road Safety Conference, 6-8 September, Canberra, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashworthiness; Safety; Standardization; Standards; Traffic safety; Vehicle design; Vehicle safety; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (vehicles)
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Crashworthiness; European standard; Standardization; Vehicle design; Vehicle safety
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 9011: Design (overall design)
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01617950
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 28 2016 2:35PM