Research Papers (2009 – 2013)

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Category 2013 CMRSC XXIII Montréal
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Author/Auteur Philippe Lesire, Heiko Johannsen, Rémy Willinger, Alejandro Longton

Abstract

CASPER was a collaborative project of 15 partners from 7 European countries that took place from April 2009 to May 2012. It has been partly funded by the European Commission in the 7th framework program. This project fits into the continuing objective of further reducing the number of fatalities on the EU roads. Activities are focused on the situation of children in cars, supported by multi-field research activities such as in depth road accident data collection regarding children, the influence of quality of use of restraint systems and technological based solutions to improve the safety of children. CASPER has been working in two main areas:
– The understanding of the real conditions of transportation of children in cars by the analysis of the reasons and consequences of Child Restraint System (CRS) misuse and through the estimation of the influence of the children’s transportation conditions as compared to the certification test procedures.
– The improvement of the efficiency of child protection through the development of innovative tools, to propose updated test procedures in frontal and side impacts, that includes injury criteria. This allows the development of new CRS to be based on data from real road situations, and to deliver new tools usable by manufacturers to develop and test their products at a lower cost, according to new procedures.
This paper proposes to present the main outcomes of the CASPER project described above.

Philippe Lesire, Heiko Johannsen, Rémy Willinger, Alejandro Longton