Advances in Automobile Engineering
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-7670
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2167-7670
+44 1300 500008
Omer Masood Qureshi and Suniya Sadullah Khan
Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Adv Automob Eng
Recent developments in road safety have placed particular emphasis on crash compatibility between different vehicles as well as between vehicles and pedestrians during a traffic collision as a key aspect of crash worthiness. Vehicle Underride/Overide is a major cause of fatalities between incompatible vehicles. However, the main focus of recent researchers has been limited to compatibility between HGVs and passenger cars and SUVs and passenger cars in developed countries, not withstanding of the fact that about 3/4th of the 1.2 million worldwide traffic fatalities occur in developing countries. The objective of this research is to study the crash compatibility amongst the diversity of vehicles in Pakistan, Crash compatibility between three and fourwheeled vehicles are categorized and placed into sets and subsets according to specific vehicle classification criteria. These vehicle sets and subsets are then analyzed using pre-defined categories of vehicle compatibility: Geometric compatibility, mass compatibility, and speed compatibility. The findings of this research indicate a strong geometric and mean speed incompatibility between different vehicle classes and an overall geometric incompatibility between passenger cars and Goods Vehicles. The difficulty in regulating compatibility and the lack of government will is a huge issue. A major policy shift is needed to change the focus from individual vehicle crash worthiness on a selected class (i.e., Passenger cars) to a collective approach considering all traffic diversity.