VIVA II has now been completed successfully
Who would force women to wear men´s shoes, size 45? Would anyone want to make women drive cars with crash-safety systems for men? A sustainable transport system without life and health loss is part of the Swedish transport political goals. The largest cause of impairment due to traffic accidents is the so called whiplash injury. We need to understand the cause of whiplash symptoms to address medical diagnosis and treatment. We need to help consumers to chose the safest vehicles. Through VIVA II, Virtual Vehicle Safety Assessment Step 2: Open Source Human Body Models and Crash Testing contributing steps are in this direction. The overall aim of ViVA II has been to reach gender equality in traffic safety. The researchers have developed tools for the evaluation of injury preventive systems for both men and women. Despite the larger risk of whiplash injury for females, current whiplash protection assessment is adapted to the average male. ViVA II addressed these differences by world leading research on female injury biomechanics.
The objectives of ViVA II were to:
• complete the development of the world’s first open access virtual model, ViVA F50, designed for simulation of vehicle accidents.
• use ViVA F50 v2 for development of a new unique crash-test dummy representing an average female for evaluation of whiplash protection produced from knowledge gained from simulations.
Both objectives were completed. The achievements are now being administered and developed further in the EU-funded project VIRTUAL, which also is associated to SAFER. You can find the results and publications from the project below.
