NHTSA'S RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR VEHICLE COMPATIBILITY

This paper presents an overview of NHTSA's vehicle compatibility research activities. NHTSA is monitoring the changing vehicle mix in the USA fleet, analyzing crash statistics, and evaluating the possible effects that these changes may have on vehicle crashes in the USA and thus on occupant safety. NHTSA is conducting full scale crash testing to develop a better understanding of vehicle compatibility and to identify test methods to assess vehicle compatibility. All of this research is being conducted with the close cooperation of the International Harmonized Research Activities compatibility research group. For the covering abstract see ITRD E825082.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF JAPAN

  1-3-1, KASUMIGASEKI, CHIYODA-KU
  TOKYO,   Japan  100-8901
• Authors:
  • SUMMERS, S M
  • HOLLOWELL, W T
  • Prasad, A
• Publication Date: 2003-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 9 p.
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF 18TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON THE ENHANCED SAFETY OF VEHICLES, HELD NAGOYA, JAPAN, 19-22 MAY 2003
  • Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crashes; Motor vehicle bodies; Safety; Size; Standardization; Statistics; Test procedures; Vehicle occupants; Vehicles
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1356: Body (car); 8525: Conference; 9014: Dimension; 1665: Safety; 9075: Standardization; 6555: Statistics; 6288: Test method; 8122: USA; 1255: Vehicle; 1715: Vehicle occupant
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00987290
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 3 2005 12:00AM