Motorcycle safety and accident research

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Kovanda, Jan¹; First, Jiri¹; Riva, Riccardo²

Affiliations

¹Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences Dpt. of Transportation Technology, Konviktska 20, CZ - 110 00 Praha 1, CZ

²University of Bergamo, Engineering Faculty Dpt. of Design and Technologies, viale Marconi 5, I – 24044 Dalmine BG, I
Abstract and keywords

The procedures followed in the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of CTU, concerning the research on passive safety of one-track vehicles (OTVs) are here partially described. From OTV peculiar construction, several basic specifications emerge, which condition a different approach to the problem of passive safety.

Keywords: one-track vehicle; passive safety; crash test; head performance criteria