PRESENT CONDITION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH IN JAPAN

In the past decade, the Japanese automobile industry has experienced a rapid growth and it is common knowledge that during this time, Japanese automobile manufacturers have solved a number of technical problems through their intensive research and development activities, while also making considerable contributions to the automobile industries of other countries. The article examines the principal themes of research programs currently in progress at each of the major automobile research organizations in Japan, in order to determine the present status of such research and discuss their future prospects. /TRRL/

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

  10-2 Goban-cho, Chiyoda-ku
  Tokyo,   Japan 

  Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan

  16-15, 1-chome, Takanawa, Minato-ku
  Tokyo 108,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Ohigashi, S
• Publication Date: 1978

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 21-26
• Serial:
  • JSAE Review
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
  • ISSN: 0389-4304
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03894304

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile industry; Automobiles; Automotive engineering; Control; Control devices; Design; Development; Exhaust gases; Foreign; Industries; Research
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 3874: Control; 9011: Design (overall design); 9013: Development; 2442: Emission; 332: Industry; 8053: Japan
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Research; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00307761
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 15 1980 12:00AM