The development of result presentation in Australia's new car assessment program NCAP.

Author(s)
Stolinski, R.
Year
Abstract

This paper examines market research findings about consumer knowledge of vehicle safety. Consumer demand for simplified information is evaluated in the context of output generated from Australian NCAP full frontal and offset frontal barrier crash tests. The development of Australia's NCAP result presentation format is described. Australian NCAP originally presented results as discrete dummy response measurements from each crash test. Following consumer demand to simplify presentation, NCAP management applied injury risk functions to the results producing a single index rating. This 100 point scale represents the risk of life threatening injury for a weighted combination of full frontal and driver's side offset crashes. (A)

Request publication

3 + 13 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.

Publication

Library number
C 11457 (In: C 11439 [electronic version only]) /91 / IRRD 896546
Source

In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Technical Conference on Enhanced Safety of Vehicles ESV, Melbourne, Australia, 13-16 May 1996, Volume 1, p. 261-268, 18 ref.

Our collection

This publication is one of our other publications, and part of our extensive collection of road safety literature, that also includes the SWOV publications.