94th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board Global Road Safety Sub-CommitteeWashington DC, 14 January 2015

Democratizing Car Safety Worldwide:The Role of Global NCAP

David Ward Secretary General,Global New Car Assessment Programme

NCAPs Promoting Safer Cars…Worldwide

NCAPs promote a ‘market for safety’ by raising awareness of the car buying public, andrewarding manufacturers that build the safest cars. There are now nine NCAPs active inAsia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the USA. Global NCAP provide a platform forcooperation among NCAPs and supports their development in rapidly motorising regions.

2014 Highlights

On 28-30 October our 2014 Annual Meeting was held at CATARC in Tianjin China. In May we launched a Fleet Safety Guide and Safer Car Purchasing Policy at a Forum in Melbourne, Australia. In September we joined the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Road Safety Program.

ASEAN NCAP, Latin NCAP, and the Safer Cars for India (SCI) project have made strong progress.

Five star cars are now featuring in results of both ASEAN and Latin NCAP and SCI has acted as a catalyst for action by both car makers and the Government of India.

VW and Toyota are making air bags standard on their Indian cars and the Government will make UN crash tests mandatory from 2017.

In the major high income countries safety standards and consumer information promoted by NCAPs have made cars safer than ever before. This progress is the combination of “regulatory push” and “demand pull”. The challenge now is to promote this successful formula worldwide .

We need to democratise safety by guaranteeing acceptable standards for all new cars and by providing consumers with the information they need to buy the safest vehicles they can afford.

This will create a global market for safer cars and contribute to the life saving goals of the UN Decade of Action 2011-2020.

Car Safety’s Winning Formula: Regulatory Push & Demand Pull

Changing Geography of the Global Car Market

Top 10 Car Producing Countries/regions 2013

On 18-19 November 2015 Brazil will host the 2nd Global Ministerial Conference onRoad Safety to review progress of the UN Decade of Action.

Global NCAP is preparing a ‘Road Map 2020 for Safer Cars’ which will be launched ahead of the 2015 Ministerial. It will focuson the challenge of improving car safety inthe rapidly motorising middle income countries.

Global NCAP will strongly recommend aphased (2016 to 2020) application to allnew cars of the most important UN Regs. & GTRs (or equivalent national standards such as FVMSSs) where applicable.

Global NCAP Road Map 2020

UN Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

The Global Plan of the Decade supports wider application of the most important global standards available under the 1958and 1998 agreements of the UN World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP29).*

These are:

Reg. 14 Seat belt anchoragesReg. 16 Safety belts & restraintsReg. 94 Frontal collisionReg. 95 Lateral collisionReg.13H (GTR 8) Electronic stability controlReg.127 (GTR 9) Pedestrian protection

*or equivalent national standards (eg: FVMSSs)

Crash Worthiness: Occupant Protection in Front & Side Impact

Crash tests for front and side impact arethe most important passive safetyassessment tools used both in legislationand consumer information programmes.

The frontal impact simulates a car to carcrash in which the test vehicle hits a barrier that replicates the soft frontend of the other vehicle. The impact is ‘offset’ with a 40% overlap as many frontalcrashes occur in this configuration.

The UN Reg. 94 test speed is 56 km/h whilst NCAP tests usually use 64 km/h (the speedat which fatalities are most common).

The side impact test uses a trolley thathits the vehicle just above the door sill areaat 50 km/h.

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Chassis Systems Control

Crash Avoidance: Global Overview of ABS/ESC Installation Rates

ESC

ABS

Passenger cars & LCV <6Info: ESP contains ABSBased on production

World

Brazil

Europe Russia

JapanChina

India100%

100%

100%

30%

44%

52%

93%

96%

97%

96%

98%

98%

81%

88%

90%

67%

93%

92%

87%

90%

91%

North America99%

99%

100%

Global NCAP’s 2015 Road Map Regulatory Recommendations

Road Map for Safer Cars 2020Apply UN Regulations* for:

All New Cars Produced or Imported

All Cars Produced or Imported

Stage One

Frontal Impact (No.94)Side Impact (No.95)Seat Belt & Seat Belt Anchorages (No.14 & No.16)

2016 2018

Stage Two

Electronic Stability Control (No. 13H or GTR No.8)Pedestrian Protection (No.127 or GTR No.9)

*or equivalent national standard

2018 2020

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