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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | Vehicle mass as a determinant of fuel consumption and secondary safety performance: A comment |
| Author: | Hutchinson, T. Anderson, R. |
| Citation: | Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2010; 15(2):123-125 |
| Publisher: | Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| ISSN: | 1361-9209 |
| Statement of Responsibility: | T.P. Hutchinson and R.W.G. Anderson |
| Abstract: | Attention is called to evidence that in collisions between vehicles of equal mass, and in single-vehicle collisions, there is unlikely to be a very strong effect of car size on injury severity, and that variation in crashworthiness within the set of car models of a given size has a much larger effect. Consequently, the secondary safety of a national fleet of small cars in the future could be as high as that of a national fleet of large cars today. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | Car mass Crash tests Crush distance Driver injury severity Single-car crashes Two-car crashes |
| Description: | Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.trd.2009.10.006 |
| Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2009.10.006 |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Centre for Automotive Safety Research publications |
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