ROADSIDE SAFETY LIBRARY. LIBRARY INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM (LIRS). VOLUME 1: USERS' MANUAL. FINAL REPORT

The Roadside Safety Library (RSL) maintained by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a collection of computer programs which simulate vehicle handling, vehicular crash with roadside objects including safety appurtenances, and post-collision behavior of occupants, along with a collection of a large number of crash test films which serve to supplement and validate the simulation programs. Collectively, the simulation programs are called the Simulation Database. The crash test films, with a test query system to retrieve pertinent information from these films, are called the Testing Database. The Simulation Database consists of : program specific information such as source code, executable load module, job control language (JCL), input data, and other sundry data files required in the usage of the programs; input preprocessor RSIP which prepares a specific set on input data from a global input database; cost processing programs, such as GRAFIX and PREP, which translate a given set of output to graphical and pictorial forms; and Library Information Retrieval System (LIRS). LIRS is an interactive program which guides a user to access available information on any program existing in the RSL through a series of prompts. The user may view selected portions of the Library or have these portions recorded onto magnetic tape for transportation to other mainframe environments that are compatible with that in which the Library is maintained. The user can also execute programs maintained in the RSL. LIRS is implemented in the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) computing facility which has an IBM 370/3033 mainframe supporting the IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO).

• Corporate Authors:

  Analysis Group, Incorporated

  Engineering Science Div, 6000 Executive Blvd, Suite 308
  Rockville, MD  United States  20852

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Authors:
  • Basu, S
  • Chatterjee, A
• Publication Date: 1987-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 40 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programs; Crash tests; Crashes; Databases; Driving; Handling characteristics; Information retrieval; Information systems; Libraries; Postcrash phase; Roadside; Safety; Single vehicle crashes; Testing; User interfaces (Computer science); Videotapes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fixed object; Interactive computing
• Old TRIS Terms: Appurtenances; Post-crash
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00472109
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/RD-87/082, AGI 4300-03
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-84-C-00025
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 31 1987 12:00AM