Effects of Recent Vehicle Design Changes on Safety Performance Volume II

1979PDFTech ReportDOT-HS-805-379KR-TR-032DOT-HS-7-01759DesignCrash analysisFatalitiesForecastingSimulationCrash severityEvaluationHazardsPassenger vehiclesInjuriesVehicle designFatality RateAccident Environment ProjectionsFARSVehicle DownsizingUnited StatesUnited States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationRedmond, D.Schmitz, B.Friedman, KeithKinetic ResearchUnited States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationUS Transportation CollectionDesign changes in 1974-1977 model year passenger cars have been identified and a preliminary evaluation has been made of the safety effects of design changes inspired by fuel economy requirements. The following appendices are enclosed: Ranking of changes in curb weight 1974 to 1977 model year passenger cars; Unranked tabulation of scaled fractional changes in all parameters 1974 to 1977 model year passenger cars; Ranked differences of subject models from models of similar roominess; Models most similar to given models based on average scaled fractional difference over nine design parameters; Make and model coding tables FARS and VW engineering model data base; Excerpts from April 1978 progress report; Output from run 1 and 1 of the Kraesp model; and Comparison of alternative input data to the Kraesp model.93