The EEVC, European Enhanced Vehicle-Safety Committee, exists since June 1974 and has been active in participating in the ESV-programme. The EEVC Status report containing a summary of the most recent results of its work is presented at the 21st ESV Conference. This outlines progress made by its working groups in the following areas: Evaluation of anthropometric adult and child crash dummies and corresponding biomechanical criteria concerning injuries (WG12); Side impact protection; Compatibility -conducted over the last two years in conjunction with the EC funded VC Compat project; Pedestrian safety; Child safety (WG18); Active/Passive Safety Interaction; Rear Impact Protection and Whiplash Injuries (WG20); Accident studies; Virtual Testing; Bus and coach safety - An ad-hoc has been established to investigate the need of analysing bus safety issues at a European level. EEVC, which has contributed to IHRA activities from the beginning; is considering that there is a need for international cooperation in the field of vehicle safety research and has decided to open the participations to some of its working groups to other ESV countries. Non EEVC countries will be able to contribute to some key scientific issues which are important for future safety regulations. For the covering abstract see ITRD E145407.
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