Mr. Broertjes gave an oral update of the discussion in the group. He noted that there seems to be an issue with decreasing test areas that needs to be addressed. The UK Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) as the contractor of the European Commission showed in their assessment of several vehicle geometries that the test areas narrow for later versions of some vehicle models compared to earlier version. Furthermore, Mr. Broertjes noted that several attendees had shown information on the difficulties that may occur with testing outside the current test areas. The Commission (or their contractor respectively) now needs to assess whether the FlexPLI can be used for testing outside the current bumper corners.

Mr. Broertjes concluded that the Task Force will assess all information that was provided and that this will be discussed during the next meeting of the TF-BTA that could be preferably be held together with the next meeting of this group.

You can access the Bumper Test Area task force page here.