Table of Contents Opening Ceremonies WelcomingRemarks ........................................................................ 1 Nicole Pageot,Director General,Road Safety andMotor Vehicle Regulation,Transport Canada, Canada ....... 1 RaymondP. Owings, Ph.D., AssociateAdministrator, National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration, United States ............................................................................... 1 Keynote Addresses . 2 RicardoMartinez, M.D., Administrator,National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,United States . , , . , 2 TheHonorable David M. Collenette,Minister of Transport,Canada . , . 4 U.S. Government Awards Presentations ........................................................ 7 RicardoMartinez, M.D., Administrator,National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,United States U.S. GovernmentAwards for Safety EngineeringExcellence .......................................... 7 U.S. GovernmentSpecial Awards of Appreciation .................................................. 9 U.S. GovernmentSpecial Recognition Presentations ............................................... 10 GovernmentStatusReports . 11 Chairperson:Jean-Pierre Medevielle, INRETS, France Commission of the European Community . , . , . 11 HerbertHenssler, European Commission FederalRepublicofGermany......................................................... 15 K.-H.Lenz, Bundesanstaltftir StraI3enwesen The European EnhancedVehicle-Safety Committee (EEVC) . 29 BerndFriedel, Bundesanstalt fir Strafienwesen France . 32 Jean-PierreMedevielle, French National Institute for Researchin Transportationand Safety UnitedKingdom . 35 Keith Rodgers,Department of the EnvironmentTransport and the Regions Italy . , , , . ~. 39 Claudio Lomonaco,Ministry of Transport Japan............................................................................. 42 Shoji Watanabe,Ministry of InternationalTrade and Industry Australia . 44 PeterMakeham, Federal Office of Road Safety TheNetherlands . 50 GerardJ.M. Meekel, Ministry of Transport xxvii Sweden . t . ..I.................I.......I.. 53 KBre Rumar, SwedishRoad and TransportResearch Institute (VTI) Poland..................................................................... ~ . 57 Wojciech Przybylski, Instytut Transportu Samochodowego UnitedStates . ..I....................I.......1 ................t . ,.,....... 59 RaymondP. Owings, Ph.D., National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration Canada........................................................................ 79 Nicole Pageot,Transport Canada International Harmonized Research Activities (IHRA) Status Reports IHRA StatusReports are locatedin the Technical Sessionsin which they were presented. Status Report of the Advanced Offset Frontal Crash Protection Working Group . Technical Session1, p, 146 Claudio Lomonaco,Ministry of Transport, Italy Status Report of the Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS) Working Group . Technical Session2, p. 360 Y. Ian Noy, TransportCanada, Canada Status Report of the Vehicle Compatibility Working Group . Technical Session3, p. 636 Keith Rodgers,Department of the Environment Transportand the Regions,United Kingdom Status Report of the Biomechanics Working Group . , . , Technical Session7, p. 1509 Rolf Eppinger, National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration, United States Status Report of the Pedestrian Safety Working Group . , . Technical Session10, p. 2120 Yoshiyuki Mizuno, JapanAutomobile StandardsInternationalization Center, Japan Invited Speakers Executive Panel Trends and Priorities in Motor Vehicle Safety for the Zlst Century Moderator: GerardJ.M. Meekel, Head of Vehicle StandardsDevelopment, Ministry of Transport, The Netherlands UnitedStates . ..l.l......................I...........,....................I.,..... 8: Philip R. Recht, Deputy Administrator, National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration Japan . ..I......................... 85 KazuyoshiMatsumoto, Director, Office of International Affairs, Ministry of Transport France . ..II..........................I.....,............I .., ., I ., . 88 Christian Steyer,Head of SafetyEngineering Department,Renault SA United States . ..1.....................1................................ 90 Richard L. Klimisch, Vice PresidentEngineering Affairs, American Automobile ManufacturersAssociation Germany . , .~ . ,, .,......., ,,,, ,... loo JosefHaberl, GeneralManager Vehicle Safety,BMW AG xxv111 TheNetherlands .....................l.I.i . ..II................................... 103 GerardJ.M. Meekel, Head of Vehicle StandardsDevelopment, Ministry of Transport Invited Speakers Executive Panel Human Factors Moderator:Y. Ian Noy, Chief ErgonomicsDivision, Transport Canada,Canada UnitedStates . ..lll.............I..............I.......~I..........1................ 107 R. WadeAllen, Principle ResearchEngineer, Systems Technology, Inc. TheNetherlands .,l.,...,,...,,,..,,....,.,,.,,1,......,,.,.._....,,,,.,_..,.,.,.,,,., 117 Tom Heijer, Institute for Road SafetyResearch SWOV UnitedStates . ..~.~...~~....~.....~~.~~.....~.~...~...~...~....~~..... 127 Barry H. Kantowitz, SeniorResearch Scientist, Battelle Human FactorsTransportation Center UnitedStates ..,...........,................,.......,........,..............,......... 133 Lidia P. Kostyniuk, AssociateResearch Scientist, University of Michigan TransportationResearch Institute UnitedKingdom . (At Time of Printing PaperNot Available) Andrew Parkes,Principle ResearchFellow, Institute for Transport Studies,University of Leeds Sweden . ..I..............................,....,,..,......,..~.......I........... 137 Kare Rumar, Professor,Swedish Road and TransportResearch Institute Canada.............................................................................. 141 Y. Ian Noy, Chief ErgonomicsDivision, Transport Canada Technical Session 1 Advanced Frontal and Offset Frontal Protection . , . I . , . 145 Chairperson:Claudio Lomonaco,Ministry of Transport, Italy Oral Presentations 9%Sl-O-01 Frontal Offset Crash Test Study Using 50th Percentile Male and 5th Percentile Female Dummies . 150 Brian T. Park, Richard M. Morgan, JamesR. Hackney,John Lee, SheldonL. Stucki National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration JohannaC. Lowrie ConradTechnologies, Inc. United States xxix Technical Session 1 (continued) 98-Sl-0-02 Determination of Frontal Offset Test Conditions BasedOn Crash Data . 164 SheldonL. Stucki, William T. Hollowell National HighwayTraffic SafetyAdministration OsvaldoFessahaie Information Systemsand Services,Inc. United States 98+1-O-03 Offset Test ProcedureDevelopment and Comparison . I I . , 185 Carl L. Ragland National HighwayTrafIic SafetyAdministration United States 9%Sl-O-04 Modeling of an Innovative Frontal Car Structure: Similar Deceleration Curves at Full Overlap, 40 Per Cent Offset and 30 DegreesCollisions . , . , . , a 194 W.J. Witteman,R.F.C. Kriens EindhovenUniversity of Technology The Netherlands 98-Sl-0-06 Injury Patterns Among Air Bag Equipped Vehicles . , . t I . 213 JeffreyS. Augenstein,Elana Perdeck, Jami Williamson, JamesStratton, Tristam Horton University of Miami Schoolof Medicine KennerlyDigges, A. Malliaris GeorgeWashington University Louis Lombard0 National HighwayTraffic SafetyAdministration United States 98-Sl-0-07 Improving Safety Performancein Frontal Collisions by Changingthe Shapeof Structural Components 222 Michael Giess The Sir LawrenceWackett Centrefor AerospaceDesign Technology, RMIT JosefTomas AdveaEngineering Pty, Ltd Australia 98-Sl-0-08 The Offset Crash Test - A ComparativeAnalysis of Test Methods . , . 229 Tomiji Sugimoto,Yoshiji Kadotani,Shigeru Ohmura HondaR&D Company,Ltd. Japan 98-Sl-O-09 Frontal impact Protection: Tailoring Safety SystemPerformance by the Prediction of Driver Size andSeatedPosition . ..I...........................~....,..............I....,,.. 236 MargaretGaler Flyte Vehicle SafetyResearch Group Loughborough University United Kingdom XXX Technical Session 1 (continuedj 9%Sl-O-10 Simulation of Foot Well Intrusion for Sled Testing . , , . 242 Martin Thelen,Ralf Raffauf,Winfried Buss,Willi Roth, Klaus Hillenbrand PARS,Passive Rtickhaltesysteme GmbH Germany 9%Sl-o-11 Predicting Proximity of Driver Head and Thorax to the SteeringWheel . , 245 Miriam A. Manary, Carol A.C. Flannagan,Matthew P. Reed,Lawrence W. Schneider Universityof Michigan TransportationResearch Institute United States 9%Sl-O-12 Restraint SystemOptimisation for Minimum Societal Harm . t . , . , . 255 L. J. Sparke GeneralMotors Holden Australia 98.Sl-O-13 Frontal Impacts with Small Partial Overlap: Real Life Data from Crash Recorders , . 259 AndersKullgren, AndersYdenius FolksamResearch ClaesTingvall SwedishNational RoadAdministration Sweden 9%Sl-o-14 Compatibility Study in Frontal Collisions - Mass and Stiffness Ratio , , . , , , . 269 SaadA. W. Jawad ACME DepartmentUniversity of Hertfordshire UnitedKingdom 98-Sl-O-16 The Effect of Hybrid III Lower Leg Kinematics on Loading Mechanismsand Injury Criteria 275 A.R. Payne Motor IndustryResearch Association (MIRA) J. Green RoverGroup A.V.Thomas JaguarCars D. Midoun FordMotor Company United Kingdom xxxi Technical Session I (continued) Poster Presentations 98-Sl-P-05 Parametric Study on the Effect of the Footwell Geometry, Dynamic Intrusion and Occupant Location on HIH Lower Leg Injury Criteria . t , . , . I . , . 283 A.R. Payne,A.R. Lawson,A.R. Hall Motor Industry ResearchAssociation @IRA) J. Green Rover Group A.V. Thomas JaguarCars D. Midoun Ford Motor Company United Kingdom 9%Sl-P-18 An Inflatable Carpet to Reducethe Loading of the Lower Extremities - Evaluation by