The Passive Safety Network (PSN) is an European co-operation of OEM's, suppliers, research organisations and universities in the field of road transport passive safety. In 2004 this network organisation developed a roadmap on future passive safety technologies addressing a number of R and D needs that could lead to significant reductions in road traffic fatalities and injuries. Feedback obtained, among others from several stakeholders in the field, on the roadmap has resulted in a future implementation plan for R and D: the APSN Secondary Safety Research Action Plan (SSRAP). Highlights of this SSRAP will be summarized in this presentation. The SSRAP is aimed at providing priorities for future vehicle Safety research and actions, in relation with the preparation of the EU 7th Research Framework Programme, and linked to other (inter)national research programmes in this field. It was developed by selecting nine topics which are considered by APSN experts as the most important for future Safety research and actions. The nine priority topics are related to the road user (injury biomechanics), vehicle technology (compatibility, restraint systems, vehicle structures, integrated safety), to safety assessment (accidentology, test methods) and to specific road user groups (motorcycles, pedestrians). Significant road casualty savings can be achieved through the application of the Safety technologies based on the research directions described in the SSRAP (A).Only abstract (as above) is available from the conference proceedings. For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E212343.
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