Sickness absence, disability pension, and permanent medical impairment among car occupants injured in a crash
This PhD thesis, written by Rasmus Elrud, presents a new perspective of health loss after a…
3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety
Sweden is to host the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety on 19–20 February 2020…
1st Periodic Review meeting
The VIRTUAL project had its first Periodic Review meeting on the 21st of January in Brussels.…
Women and men in traffic – are men more protected than women?
The annual Transportforum event in Linköping, on January 8-9, 2020, brought together the Swedish transport and…
Analysis of Swedish and Dutch accident data on cyclist injuries in cyclist-car collisions
Data from the Swedish national accident database STRADA (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition) and from the…
Swedish Minister of Infrastructure updated on project proceedings
On Wednesday 6 November project coordinator Astrid Linder was invited to present recent developments in VIRTUAL…
The Crash Test Bias: How Male-Focused Testing Puts Female Drivers at Risk
Researchers have known for decades that women are more likely to be killed or injured in…
VIDEO: How to improve safety assessment using Virtual Testing and Human Body Models?
IRCOBI Europe: pre-conference workshop by OSCCAR and VIRTUAL On 10 September 2019 Horizon2020 projects OSCCAR and…
SafetyUpDate Graz: Assessment of VRU Protection with HBM
On 17 and 18 September the SafetyUpDate Graz illuminated the megatrends in the automotive industry from…
Analysis of pedestrian injuries in pedestrian-car collisions with focus on age and gender
On September 12 Christoph Leo presented the differences that can be observed among male and female…
Input request: workshop ‘Virtual Testing and Open Source Human Body Modelling’
For the preparation of the workshop ‘Virtual Testing and Open Source Human Body Modelling’ we would…
First Human Body Model available on OpenVT platform
As of now, a new version of the VIVA Human Body Model is available on the…