Project

Rear Seat Safety for Short Occupants, phase II

Period
1 April 2012–31 December 2016
Project manager
Katarina Bohman

The overall project scope is to join efforts in mapping the causes of injuries occurring to restrained children 4-12 years old in side to frontal impact situations providing guidelines for evaluation methods as well as protection principles, including restraint handling and attitude aspects. This is done by broad comprehensive research efforts combining expertise from industry and academia using various methodologies with applied research directed towards countermeasures. The total project includes real world crash data analysis, real world driving studies and crash testing and simulations.

Short facts

Research area
Human body protection
Financier(s)

SAFER

Partners

Chalmers, Autoliv, Volvo Car Corporation

Project no

B20

Project type
SAFER connected project

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