FRONTAL COLLISION SAFETY OF BUS PASSENGERS IN JAPAN
Recently, the crash-safety measures against the bus crew and the passengers came to be requested by the rise of demands for the crash-safety performances of automobiles. In Japan, the guideline for the bus crash test was worked out in 1999. Bus crash safety in the situation where seat belt wearing is not obligatory for bus passengers was investigated. Sled tests of which the test parameters were seat belt, seat interval, and posture were undertaken. For the first row passenger three point seat belt effectiveness and for other passengers two point seat belt effectiveness were studied. In this report, the test results were considered in relation to international harmonization, and current research activities are described. For the covering abstract see ITRD E825082.
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF JAPAN
1-3-1, KASUMIGASEKI, CHIYODA-KU
TOKYO, Japan 100-8901 -
Authors:
- MITSUISHI, H
- Sukegawa, Y
- OKANO, S
- NAGASE, H
- Publication Date: 2003-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 7 p.
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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: Buses; Conferences; Crash tests; Frontal crashes; Manual safety belts; Seat belts; Standardization; Tests
- Geographic Terms: Japan
- ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 8525: Conference; 1640: Head on collision; 1648: Impact test (crash); 8053: Japan; 1476: Safety belt; 9075: Standardization; 6255: Test
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Public Transportation; Research; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00987313
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD, USDOT
- Created Date: Mar 3 2005 12:00AM