THE NUMEROUS MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF HUMAN BODY BEHAVIOUR IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, WHICH HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS ARE NOT AS MUCH USED AS COULD BE SUPPOSED IN SPITE OF ALL THEIR ADVANTAGES OVER EXPERIMENTAL TESTS, NOTABLY THEIR VERY LOW COST. THEIR MAIN HANDICAP IS GENERALLY INSUFFICIENT VALIDATION, INVOLVING A LACK OF RELIANCE ON THE PART OF USERS TOWARD THE RESULTS SUPPLIED BY MATHEMATICAL MODELS. THE ORIGINALITY OF PRAKIMOD, THE MODEL DEVELOPED IN THE LABORATORY OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOMECHANICS OF PEUGEOT S.A./RENAULT IS THAT IT HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF SYSTEMATIC VALIDATION. VALIDATION WAS CARRIED OUT BY COMPARING PRAKIMOD SIMULATIONS OF CAR-TO-PEDESTRIAN COLLISIONS WITH DIFFERENT VEHICLES AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS, TO EXPERIMENTAL COLLISIONS PERFORMED UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS AND IS PRESENTED IN THIS PAPER, AS ARE TWO EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION. (A) FOR THE COVERING ABSTRACT OF SECTION 5 SEE IRRD 266063. FOR THE COVERING ABSTRACT OF THE CONFERENCE SEE IRRD 266046.
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