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2 Estimated equivalent EuroNCAP/ANCAP pedestrian assessment performance for regulatory options for pedestrian protection
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... Australia does not currently have any compulsory pedestrian safety testing requirements for new vehicles. Previous research by CASR has shown that the adoption of the GTR as an ADR would have a beneficial effect on road safety, with associated monetary savings in crash costs (Anderson et al., 2008). Additionally, countries that have adopted pedestrian safety regulations have been shown to have a safer vehicle fleet for pedestrians (Ponte et al., 2007). ...
In the future, the Global Technical Regulation (GTR) on pedestrian safety may be adopted as an Australian Design Rule. Eventually, this would require all new vehicles to meet a certain level of performance in pedestrian impact tests. This paper discusses the likely effects of such an ADR on vehicle design, and estimates the effect of the requirements on real world crash performance. This is done by analysing vehicles whose GTR performance could be estimated from prior testing conducted by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). The resulting performance estimates give an indication of what proportion of vehicles would be likely to pass the GTR, and what characteristics might cause them to fail the requirements. A method is presented for relating headform test requirements to real world performance, taking into account the distribution of speeds in real crashes. The results show that compulsory compliance with the GTR would improve the current situation, but ideally the requirements of the GTR would become stricter in the future.
Executive Summary INTRODUCTION Between 1989 and 2009 almost 9,000 pedestrians were killed and hundreds of thousands were injured on Canada’s roads. Progress in reducing pedestrian casualties has been much less impressive than for vehicle occupants. The road system has traditionally been designed from the perspective of a motor vehicle driver rather than that of a pedestrian or other type of vulnerable road user. The safe system approach recognizes that the most vulnerable part of the system is comprised of unprotected human beings and that it has to be designed around them. Those jurisdictions that have established road safety as a priority are the same ones that have implemented improvements across all three areas (road user behaviours, roadway design and vehicle safety standards) and have achieved substantial reductions in the numbers of people killed and injured on their roads; this is evidenced by the divergent levels of road safety performance by various countries.1
Canada lags behind many top performing countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) when it comes to pedestrian safety. It would not be unreasonable for Canada to, over the near to medium term, reduce its number of pedestrian fatalities to one-third the current level: this would save approximately 2,400 lives in a ten-year period. Research findings and experience of other jurisdictions indicate that vast progress could be made to reduce the number of pedestrians killed and injured in Canada if pedestrian safety were given higher priority and if proven measures were implemented. No longer is it acceptable to assume pedestrian injury is inevitable when motor vehicles share the road system with vulnerable road users. In the modern era of road safety, jurisdictions can assume a safe system approach and include pedestrians and other vulnerable road users as an essential component of the system and one that is given top priority.
Themes of this current report include safer pedestrians, safer drivers, safer road and traffic signal design, and safer vehicles. This report provides an overview of available countermeasures to achieve improved pedestrian safety. It is also hoped that this report will help foster a different way of thinking when it comes to pedestrian safety and the design of the overall system.
