Evidence for Vehicles

Are Parents and Carers Fitting Child Car Seats Correctly?

Analysis of information collected during child car seat checking clinics, mostly held in 2013.

Author(s): Mark Pitcher, TRL

Published: TRL presentation at the Harrogate International Nursery Fair, March 2015
Date: 07 Dec 2015
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Assessing the benefit of the brake assist system for pedestrian injury mitigation through real-world accident investigations

A study to assess the potential influence of Brake Assist in vehicle-pedestrian collisions by reconstructing real-world accidents in three different cities in Spain.

Author(s): A Badea-Romero, F Javier Paez, A Furones, J Barrios, J de-Miguel

Published: Safety Science 53 pp.193-201. 2013
Date: 21 Aug 2017
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Assessing the Direct Vision Performance of Heavy goods Vehicles (HGVs)

Review of the Direct Vision Standard requirements.

Author(s): Robinson, T., Knight, I., Martin, P., Seidly, M., Manning, J., Eyers, V.

Published: Transport for London (2016)
Date: 17 May 2017
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Assessing the perceived safety risk from quiet electric and hybrid vehicles to vision-impaired pedestrians

A review of vehicle accident statistics to determine whether the accident risk posed by EVs differed from that posed by traditional ICE vehicles.

Author(s): Morgan, P. A., Morris, L., Muirhead, M., Walter, L. K., & Martin, J.

Published: TRL, 2011
Date: 05 Feb 2014
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Assessment of “LAVIA” speed adaptation systems: experimental design and initial results on system use and speed behaviour

Objectives: Evaluation results

Author(s): J. Ehrlich, F.Saad, S. Lassarre, and S. Romon

Published: Proceedings of the 13th ITS World Congress, London, 2006
Date: 08 Feb 2013

Association of rear seat safety belt use with death in a traffic crash: a matched cohort study

Objectives: To estimate the association between using or not using a seat belt in the rear of the car and death.

Author(s): Motao Zhu, Peter Cummings, Haitao Chu, Lawrence J Cook

Published: Injury Prevention 2007;13:183-185
Date: 01 Feb 2013
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Automated emergency brake systems: technical requirement, costs and benefits (PPR227)

An assessment of the technical requirement, costs and benefits related to Automated Emergency Brake systems (AEBS).

Author(s): C. Grover, I. Knight, F. Okoro, I. Simmons, G. Couper, P. Massie and B. Smith

Published: TRL for DG Enterprise, European Commission, 2008
Date: 24 Jun 2013
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Automatic Headlamp On

Statements regarding the safety-related commitments of the ACEM

Author(s): ACEM (Association des Constructeurs Européens de Motocycles)

Published: ACEM (Association des Constructeurs Européens de Motocycles); no date
Date: 25 Jan 2014
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Automotive forward lighting with use of high flux white Light-Emitting-Diodes

Design of a LED headlamp with Advanced Front lighting System (AFS) function.

Author(s): Hsu J-T and Wang W-L

Published: Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE); SAE International 2005: 2006-01-0104, 2006
Date: 25 Jan 2014
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Autonomous Emergency Braking

Technical review of current autonomous braking systems and a summary of how AEB works.

Author(s): Euro NCAP

Published: Euro NCAP, 2017
Date: 21 Aug 2017
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