Projects financed by the Commission :: Project file

The opinions expressed in the studies are those of the consultant and do not necessarily represent the position of the Commission.

FID

Improved Frontal Impact Protection through a World Frontal Impact Dummy

Project details
Domain	Vehicle Technology: Passive Safety
Duration	from 01/2000 until 11/2003
Website
Other sources	Final report (1,70 MB)

The Improved Frontal Impact Protection through a World Frontal Impact Dummy (FID) was a project with as general objective to contribute to the reduction of the amount of injuries and death car occupants involved in frontal collisions. Within this project, a frontal impact dummy prototype (instrumented, 50th percentile male) with realistic movements and injury indicating measurements, durability, repeatability has been developed together with a set of requirements for frontal dummies, which correlate the dummy response with injuries sustained by the human body. The consortium existed of six experienced and multidisciplinary partners from five different European countries. An important benefit of this project is that it will contribute to the harmonisation of safety regulations world-wide and in particular between Europe and the United States.

Coordinator
TNO automotive - Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (NL)
Partners
BAST - Federal Highway Research Institute (DE) INRETS - Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Securité (FR) Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) (ES) TRL - Transport Research Laboratory (UK) University of Heidelberg (DE)