Improvements in NCAP results for Australian vehicles

摘要

Since 1993 Australian NCAP has been crash testing vehicles and publishing results to provide new vehicle consumers, when making a purchasing decision, independent advice on occupant protection. During the life of the program there have beensignificant improvements in the occupant safety performance of some vehicles while other models have shown only small improvements.This paper reviews the performance of those vehicles crash tested in the Australian NCAP (ANCAP), highlighting models that have shown significant improvements in performance. An analysis of crash test data, known changes to vehicle specification andchange in price for the vehicle, is undertaken to review the improvements in occupant protection offered and any associated increase in costs.In 1997 Australian NCAP calculated an expected community benefit to cost ratio of 3.3 for improvements in occupant protection in passenger cars. This was based on assumptions contained in earlier work including an estimated increase in cost of