COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF AIR CUSHION AND BELT RESTRAINT SYSTEMS IN IDENTICAL CRASH SITUATIONS USING DUMMIES AND CADAVERS

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of occupant restraint systems in full scale crashes, with emphasis upon injury to human beings, a series of 11 crash tests were conducted using both anthropometric test devices and cadavers as human surrogates. Occupant restraint systems chosen to be tested were: the air cushion restraint system and three point belt restraint systems.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Compendium Technical Paper 49th Annual Meeting Institute of Transportation Engineers, Toronto, September 23-27, 1979.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • WALSH, M J
  • Kelleher, B J
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 271-228
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Publisher: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile drivers; Automobiles; Conferences; Environmental impacts; Highway operations; Highway transportation; Public transit; Seat belts; Simulation; Traffic; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Training simulators; Transportation operations; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00329607
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 21 1981 12:00AM