Technical Working Groups

Within APSN, the research integration activities aim to achieve the following general objectives:

• To provide near future strategies in conjunction with APSN workpackage 2 on strategy, policy and legislation in order to promote a integrated/coherent approach within the research in passive safety, through the identification of gaps to be covered within the several working groups and the definition of a structured joint research programme(s) of activities
• To identify and maintaining links as well as integrate running projects and other networks, at EU and national level, involving activities related to passive safety
• To promote the sharing and the dissemination of the results achieved through the level of integration reached in the different fields of the Working groups.
• To provide quality assessment criteria and measures for research integration.

These activities are coordinated within the workpackage 4 led by TU Graz and co-led by Chalmers University.

This workpackage 4 is organised in 5 technical working groups:

1. Real-world Accident and Injury Data including Medicine and injury costs,
2. Biomechanics, dummy development & test methods,
3. Virtual testing & modelling,
4. Material technologies & vehicle structural crashworthiness,
5. Integrated safety including restraint systems.

Around these themes, on the working group level, integration activities are directed at sharing and developing common use of research infrastructures, equipment, tools and platforms; the provision of guidelines & standards, facilitating comparison between technologies and identification of research needs and exploitable results.