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| Airbag Effectiveness Project (2001) A project concerning airbag effectiveness for the Department for Transport was completed at the VSRC in 2001... |
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| An Assessment of Cars for Small Drivers (2001) Previous studies have indicated that, as car drivers, shorter people could be at an increased risk of injury compared with their taller counterparts. |
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| BIONIC - Blind Operation of In-Car Controls (2001) Many more vehicle systems will be available to drivers in the future. Interaction between drivers and multiple systems particularly for communication... |
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| CCIS – The Cooperative Crash Injury Study (2001) CCIS is an on-going programme of research that began in February 1983 to investigate real-world car crashes and provide government and the motor industry with detailed crash injury data |
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| ECBOS – Enhanced Coach and Bus Occupant Safety (2001) In January 2000 the Vehicle Safety Research Centre began work on a research contract funded by DG VII under the European Union’s 5th Framework Programme... |
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| OTS – ‘On the Spot’ (2001) Governments and vehicle manufacturers now recognise that all road users need to be protected and therefore are interested not only in the consequences of crashes... |
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| Pendant – Pan-European Co-ordinated Accident and Injury Databases (2001) Annually within the European Union, there are over 40,000 road accident fatalities and 1.6 million other casualties and the majority of these are either the occupants of cars or are in collision with a car... |
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| Prism – Proposed Reduction of car crash Injuries through improved Smart restraint development technologies (2001)
Demands for increasingly stringent international passenger safety require the development of improved restraint systems that offer higher levels of protection during road vehicle impacts... |
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| PSN2 – European Vehicle Passive Safety Network 2 (2001) The Passive Safety Network is a thematic network funded by the European Commission... |
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| Riser – Roadside Infrastructure for Safer European Roads (2001) The VSRC is working with eleven European partners on a new project aiming to improve the safety of roadside infrastructure... |
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| ROLLOVER – Improvement of Rollover (2001) Safety for Passenger Vehicles The VSRC is involved in two tasks of the European ROLLOVER project, funded under the European Union’s 5th Framework Programme... |
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| Seatbelts: Requirements for Minibuses and Coaches (2001) Buses and coaches are a widely used form of transport for relatively large numbers of people on the European road network... |
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| VIVID – Virtual Vehicle Information Displays (2001) The availability of on-board information for drivers is dramatically increasing. |
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| Automotive vehicles fuelled by liquified petroleum gas (LPG) (2000) Recommendation from the CSC, France |
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