Objective The side impact crash is now the key contributor to fatal and serious injuries in road accidents in Europe. The recent issue of a side impact directive marks an important step in improving car safety, but some areas of concern exist. One is the specification of the dummy used in the test procedure, which is not sufficiently able to address the risk at injury in complex side impact loading conditions, e.g involving active protection systems. This problem has become more clear as car and restraint producers world-wide are forced to test with different side impact dummies to comply with different standards in different areas of the world. Therefore, the main objective is to provide a scientific basis and tools for enhancing and harmonising the side impact dummy, allowing automobile and restraint manufacturers to make safer cars against lower costs. The dummy developed will have more humanlike behaviour more appropriate instrumentation and guidelines for future regulatory testing. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiophysics Programme(s) FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.3.-3. - Key Action Land Transport and Marine Technologies Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO EU contribution No data Address 97,Schoenmakerstraat 97 2600 JA DELFT Netherlands See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASSOCIATION DES CONSTRUCTEURS EUROPEENS D'AUTOMOBILES Belgium EU contribution No data Address RUE DU NOYER 211 1000 BRUXELLES See on map Total cost No data FEDERAL HIGHWAY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Germany EU contribution No data Address 53,Bruederstrasse 53 51427 BERGISCH GLADBACH See on map Total cost No data FIRST TECHNOLOGY SAFETY SYSTEMS (UK) LTD United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Birds Hill SG6 1JA HERTFORDSHIRE-LETCHWORTH See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LES TRANSPORTS ET LEUR SECURITE. France EU contribution No data Address Avenue du General Malleret-Joinville 2 94114 ARCUEIL See on map Total cost No data MIRA LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Watling Street CV10 0TU NUNEATON See on map Total cost No data TRANSPORT RESEARCH FOUNDATION T/A TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Old Wokingham Road RG11 6AU CROWTHORNE See on map Total cost No data TRW OCCUPANT RESTRAINT SYSTEMS GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Industriestrasse 20 73551 ALFDORF See on map Total cost No data WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Poland EU contribution No data Address Nowowiesjka 24 00 661 WARSZAWA See on map Total cost No data
