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…
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…
Paper: Non-collision incidents on buses due to acceleration and braking manoeuvres leading to falling events among standing passengers
On public transport buses, standing passengers are subject to acceleration and braking driver manoeuvres which may…
Road safety: the average male as a norm in vehicle occupant crash safety assessment
This article (published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, written by Astrid Linder and Mats Svensson) addresses how…
Volunteer experiments VRU
The WP5 team met at the University of Ljubljana Monday. The team inspected the status of the set-up…
New member Advisory Group
The VIRTUAL Consortium warmly welcomes Prof Duane Cronin as new member in the Advisory Group. Duane…
Paper: Risk of non-collision injuries to public transport passengers
In work package 5 of VIRTUAL, human body models are developed to study non-collision injuries in…