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…
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…
IRCOBI: pre-conference workshop by OSCCAR and VIRTUAL
Date & time: Tuesday 10 September, 9.00-12.30 Location: IRCOBI, Unitversity of Florence How to improve safety…
Paper published in Accident Analysis & Prevention
Review of average sized male and female occupant models in European regulatory safety assessment tests and…
VIRTUAL OpenVT platform
VIRTUAL’s work package 1 provides all tools necessary for technical users to perform Virtual Testing. The…