Study of Traffic Accidents with Micro Mobility: Mini-car (Second Report)

超小型モビリティ・ミニカーの交通事故に関する研究（第２報）

Micro mobility, which is expected as new mobility for elder people, is studied in this paper. Micro mobility has two categories which are personal mobility and two seaters mobility. In Japan, personal mobility is called mini-car. In first report, mini-car accidents using traffic accident data were analyzed. In this report, full-wrap frontal barrier crash tests by mini-car were performed. The cabin which was mounted on the platform keeps enough space for passenger safety after frontal crash. However, the upper body of driver moved to front, and the face and chest were hit steering handle. Because the shoulder anchor of seat belt moved to front due to deformation of B-pillars. The average height of force (AHOF) was measured via multiple load cells on the barrier. The AHOF is lower than average of passenger vehicles. This result means that mini-car has a risk of under-ride at head-on-collision with passenger vehicle.超小型モビリティは，1～2人乗りの小型車で，新しい高齢者向けモビリティとして高い期待を受けている．本研究では1人乗りの超小型モビリティであるミニカーを扱う．ミニカーは1980年代から販売されており，すでに多くの利用実績がある．そこで，ミニカーのフルラップ衝突試験を実施し，その車体強度について検討した．

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.11351/jsaeronbun.45.541
• Record URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Study%20of%20Traffic%20Accidents%20with%20Micro%20Mobility%3A%20Mini-car%20(Second%20Report)&author=R.%20Oga&author=N.%20Takubo&author=K.%20Kato&author=T.%20Terashima&author=Y.%20Noguchi&author=K.%20Kido&publication_year=2014
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• Authors:
  • Oga, Ryo
  • Takubo, Nobuaki
  • Kato, Kenshiro
  • Terashima, Takaaki
  • Noguchi, Yusuke
  • Kido, Kotaro
• Publication Date: 2014-5

Language

• English
• Japanese

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 541-546
• Serial:
  • Transactions of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
  • Volume: 45
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
  • ISSN: 0287-8321
  • EISSN: 1883-0811
  • Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jsaeronbun
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash data; Crash tests; Crashworthiness; Frontal crashes; Miniature automobiles; Mobility; Seat belts; Traffic crashes
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01674058
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
• Created Date: Jun 28 2018 2:01PM