COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SEVERAL VEHICLE SAFETY RATING SYSTEMS

The paper examines the application of six vehicle safety rating systems to a common crash database, for the purpose of making a comparison of the rating results produced by each system and to develop an understanding of the differences which emerge. The rating results are compared based on rank order of crashworthiness of vehicle models, and relationships between each pair of results. Finally, the results with their respective confidence limits are used to classify each vehicle model as having inferior, not defined or superior crashworthiness, and the classification is used to compare the relative discrimination of the methods.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Safety Advisory Committee

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • CAMERON, M
  • NARAYAN, S
  • Newstead, S
  • ERNVALL, T
  • Laine, V
  • LANGWIEDER, K
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF 17TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON THE ENHANCED SAFETY OF VEHICLES. CD ROM
  • Location: Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Date: 2001-6-4 to 2001-6-7
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 12 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: DOT HS 809220

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Conferences; Crash tests; Crashes; Data banks; Deformation; Safety; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 8513: Classification; 1631: Collision; 8525: Conference; 8614: Database; 5595: Deformation; 1648: Impact test (crash); 1665: Safety; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00920849
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 6 2002 12:00AM