Occupant Protection

Occupant Protection is a vehicle safety engineering concept that denotes the set of design and performance principles aimed at preserving the integrity and well-being of individuals inside a vehicle during a collision by mitigating the severity of injury through controlled energy absorption, restraint systems, and structural integrity management.

359

Publications

10.7K

Citations

933

Authors

258

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

CrashworthinessVehicle Safety Engineering

Children

Adaptive Restraint SystemsChild Occupant ProtectionElderly Occupant ProtectionFemale Occupant ProtectionFinite Element Human Body ModelsFrontal Crash ProtectionHead Injury CriterionHead Restraint DesignInjury CriteriaNeck Injury Criterion

Publications

359

IEA EBC Annex 66: Definition and simulation of occupant behavior in buildings

Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Bing Dong et al. · Energy and Buildings · 2017 · 496 citations · Full text

Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Building Science +14

Analysis of injury severity and vehicle occupancy in truck- and non-truck-involved accidents

Li-Yen Chang, Fred Mannering · Accident Analysis & Prevention · 1999 · 327 citations

Public Health, Automotive Engineering, Injury Prevention +16

Occupant injury severities in hybrid-vehicle involved crashes: A random parameters approach with heterogeneity in means and variances

Puttipan Seraneeprakarn, Shuaiqi Huang, Venkataraman N. Shankar et al. · Analytic Methods in Accident Research · 2017 · 297 citations

Public Health, Biostatistics, Injury Prevention +14

Autonomous cars: The tension between occupant experience and intersection capacity

Scott Le Vine, Alireza Zolfaghari, John Polak · Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies · 2015 · 224 citations

Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Autonomous Systems +16

Vehicle occupant injury severity on highways: An empirical investigation

Zoi Christoforou, Simon Cohen, Matthew G. Karlaftis · Accident Analysis & Prevention · 2010 · 194 citations · Full text

Public Health, Automotive Engineering, Injury Prevention +14

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Authors

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David C. Viano
General Motors (United States), United States
8 publications · 314 citations
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David Tyrell
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, United States
8 publications · 131 citations
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Brian Fildes
Monash University, Australia
6 publications · 118 citations
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Hampton C. Gabler
Virginia Tech, United States
6 publications · 139 citations
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Ola Boström
Autoliv (Sweden), Sweden
5 publications · 200 citations
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Institutions

258

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SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
93 publications · 2.5K citations
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Accident Analysis & Prevention
26 publications · 1.5K citations
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International Journal of Crashworthiness
12 publications · 224 citations
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Traffic Injury Prevention
11 publications · 226 citations
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PubMed
Repository · 12 publications · 263 citations
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