Large school bus safety restraint evaluation:​ phase II

Elias, Jeffrey C.; Sullivan, Lisa K.; McCray, Linda B.

This paper details the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) continuing research and testing activities on large school bus safety restraints. This paper will discuss relative performance of compartmentalization, lap belt restraints and lap/shoulder belt restraints, as well as the effects of seat back height and seat spacing on the performance of these safety restraint strategies. Results of NHTSA’s frontal sled testing efforts with an inflatable airbag belt system are reviewed. The agency’s efforts on researching side impact protection are also briefly discussed. This paper supplements the results presented in the 17th Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Conference (ESV), Paper No. 345, “Large School Bus Safety Evaluation” [1], and discusses results for tests that were conducted subsequent to the publication of that paper.

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2001

Elias JC, Sullivan LK, McCray LB. Large school bus safety restraint evaluation. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 4-7, 2001; Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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2005

McCray LB, Brewer J. Child safety research in school buses. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 6-9, 2005; Washington, DC.

2009

Martínez L, Vicente T, García A, Alcalá E, Aparicio F. Analysis of coaches rows seats distance influence on the passengers comfort and safety. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 15-18, 2009; Stuttgart, Germany.

2017

Martínez L, Espantaleón M, de Loma-Ossorio M, Alcalá E, René Torres C. Adult and child dummies tests for safety assessment of seated occupants in urban bus collisions. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 5-8, 2017; Detroit, MI.

2015

Suzuki D, Nakai K, Enami S, Okino T, Takano J, Palacin R. Proposal of simulation method for behaviour analysis of passengers on longitudinal seating in railway collision. In: Proceedings of the 2015 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury. September 9-11, 2015; Lyon, France.327-.

2022

Pastula CC. Assessment of Occupant Response in Frontal Bus Crash Scenarios Using Human Body Models to Improve Public Transportation Safety [Master's thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2022.