TIRE-VEHICLE SYSTEM ELEMENTS BEARING ON THE PROBABILITIES OF LOSS OF CONTROL

As a means of clarifying the role of vehicle and tire factors in the skidding process, the interrelationship of the tire-vehicle system with the driver-vehicle-roadway system is examined. This examination shows that it is not possible to isolate "friction demand" and "friction available" as separate, distinct entities but that it is feasible to identify "skidding" as a loss of control event in which the "maneuver outcome" departs from the "maneuver demand." The various tire and vehicle design and operational variables governing the probability of skidding (as defined) are identified. The resulting perspective of "skidding" as a "potential for loss of control" is used as the basis for discussing counter-measures and to comment on treads in vehicle morphology likely to impinge of this potential. /Author/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This article appeared in Transportation Research Record No. 621, Skidding Accidents: Tires, Vehicles, and Vehicle Components--which contains the proceedings of a conference conducted by the Transportation Research Board, May 2-6, 1977.
• Authors:
  • Segel, Leonard
• Conference:
  • Second International Skid Prevention Conference
  • Location: Columbus Ohio, United States
  • Date: 1977-5-2 to 1977-5-6
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 1-7
• Monograph Title: Skidding Accidents: Tires, Vehicles and Vehicle components. Proceedings of a Conference Conducted by the Transportation Research Board, May 2-6, 1977
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 621
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Drivers; Friction; Maneuverability; Skid resistance; Tires; Vehicle design
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163905
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025745
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding, HS-021 374, HS-020 126
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM