Safe and comfortable seat belts for all

Research Project, 2024 – 2028

promote safe, equal, and sustainable road transport with varying degrees ofautomation today and in the future, this project will produce novel data on carpassengers’ sitting postures, belt fit, and comfort experience and attitudes, for a diversepopulation in various aspects of travel, including shared mobility.
The project’s goal is to build knowledge and evaluation methods to refine the seatbelt,focusing on the positioning of the lap and diagonal belt and how they can be assessedin crash tests. This involves developing, refining, and assessing tools and methods,along with studies on car passengers in different riding contexts, including sharedmobility.
This project will quantify and categorize combinations of occupant anthropometries,sitting postures, and crash factors, providing insight into seat belt fit, belt to bodyinteraction and crash assessment methods. This will be used by the industry to develop safe and comfortable restraint systems, including adaptive protection systems thancustomize restraints for individuals and crash severity using sensors in vehicles withhigh degree of automation. The project will provide the project members with uniqueknowledge and tools contributing to the Swedish safety leadership. Deliverables includepublications and partnerships with essential stakeholders. Additionally, the partners willshape future automotive safety through regulatory frameworks and policy development.