Open-Source Tools for Road User Safety Abessment from the VIRTUAL Project
Paper in proceeding, 2023
In the abessment of road user and vehicle occupant safety, physical testing is limited to a few scenarios. Virtual testing (VT) offers an opportunity to advance transport safety by introducing additional test cases. The objective of the VIRTUAL project is to provide tools such as finite element models, guidelines and a corresponding platform to foster the uptake of VT. A VT platform, OpenVT, has been established and provides open-source human body models (HBMs) of both an average female and male, seated and standing, as well as a seat, generic vehicle and tram front models. The tool chain from virtual to physical testing has been illustrated in the low severity impact case where the seat evaluation tool was developed. The newly established organisation OVTO will run the OpenVT platform in the future and govern the evolution of the results of the VIRTUAL project after its completion.
Virtual Testing
Open Source
Finite Element Human Body Models
Vehicle Safety
Vulnerable Road Users
Road Transport
Author
Astrid Linder
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety
Philipp Heinzl
Siemens
Johan Iraeus
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety
Jobin John
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety
Arne Keller
Faurecia Services Groupe SASU
Corina Klug
Technische Universität Graz
Christian Lackner
Siemens
Ines Levallois
AGU Zurich
Mats Svensson
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety
Kai-Uwe Schmitt
Faurecia Services Groupe SASU
Linus Trummler
Faurecia Services Groupe SASU
Jia Cheng Xu
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Transportation Research Procedia
23521457 (ISSN) 23521465 (eISSN)
Vol. 72 423-430
2022 Conference Proceedings Transport Research Arena, TRA Lisbon 2022
Lisboa, Portugal,
Lisboa, Portugal,
Open Access Virtual Testing Protocols for Enhanced Road User Safety (VIRTUAL)
European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/768960), 2018-06-01 -- 2022-05-31.
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Vehicle Engineering
DOI
10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.423