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home / centre for automotive safety research / Publications / List / Details Publication Details| Title | Vehicle Mass as a Determinant of Fuel Consumption and Secondary Safety Performance: A Comment | | Authors | Hutchinson TP, Anderson RWG | | Year | 2010 | | Type | Journal Article | | Abstract | Attention is called to evidence that in collisions between vehicles of equal mass, and in single-vehicle collisions, there is unlikely to be a very strong effect of car size on injury severity, and that variation in crashworthiness within the set of car models of a given size has a much larger effect. Consequently, the secondary safety of a national fleet of small cars in the future could be as high as that of a national fleet of large cars today. | | Journal Title | Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment | | Journal Volume (Issue) | 15(2) | | Page Range | 123-125 |
| Reference | | Hutchinson TP, Anderson RWG (2010). Vehicle Mass as a Determinant of Fuel Consumption and Secondary Safety Performance: A Comment. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 15(2), 123-125. |
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