Presentations concerning compatibility testing and compatibility issues concerning car-to-car and car-to-truck crashes in Europe, Japan, Australia and the U.S. (All documents are in Adobe PDF Format)
Agenda Opening remarks - Welcome to Volvo Trucks
1 General Introduction 2 VC-Compat introduction 3 Structural analysis 4a Cost and benefit estimation 4b Cost benefit car-to-truck leg 5 Crash testing - car to car leg 6 Testing and modeling 7 Rear underrun protection 8 Truck evaluation without using a car 9 Analysis of accident statistics 10 NHTSA's vehicle compatibility strategies 11 Improvement of frontal offset test summary - French proposal 12 Truck - car compatibility - Australia 13 Large truck – car compatibility 14 Prediction of effects of fupd 15 ACEA - Some activities on compatibility issues
Vehicle compatibility publications located at VC-Compat web siteVC-COMPAT - Vehicle Crash Compatibility Project in EC 5th Framework Programme
01-Press Release VC-Compat.pdf
02-Truck_compatibility_paper_20th_int_congress_on_truck_safety-01.pdf
03-Crash Compatility of Trucks and Cars_20th Int Congres on Truck Safety.pdf
04-Presentation TNO-Assessment of eaUPs-VDI_DEKRA-Truck_Safety_October 2004.pdf