Phase 2 proposes to amend the UN Global Technical Regulation No. 9 on pedestrian safety by introducing the flexible pedestrian legform impactor (FlexPLI) as a single harmonized test tool in order to enhance the level of protection for pedestrian lower legs. NHTSA has expressed concern that the injury assessment reference values (IARVs) for this GTR may not meet the needs for injury mitigation in the U.S. In order to enable the proposed Phase 2 amendment to move forward with US support, the US proposes additions to the GTR preamble to make clear its position and intentions regarding assessment of the IARV and to allow the brackets to be removed from the IARV in the draft amendment.

Input regarding automated vehicle crashworthiness priorities.

This document contains a proposal to continue to develop amendments to UN GTR No. 9 on pedestrian safety in order to clarify the test procedures. It is based on ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/31 from the March 2012 session of the Executive Committee (AC.3) of the 1998 Agreement. It is distributed to the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) and to AC.3 for consideration. This document shall be appended to the amendment to the UN GTR once adopted.

Proposal to introduce provisions on thermal propagation as a result of a single cell thermal runaway.

Final progress report of the Informal working group on Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle GTR and the proposal to develop a global technical regulation concerning hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Proposed text of a UN Global Technical Regulation (UN GTR) on safety of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Text of the proposed regulation on safety-related performance requirements for hydrogen-fueled vehicles as prepared by the GRSP working group on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles – Subgroup safety (HFCV-SGS). This draft supersedes document GRSP/2012/12.

Proposal to modify document GRSP/2014/15 presenting Amendment 2 to GTR No. 9. Amendment 2 would introduce the flexible pedestrian legform impactor (FlexPLI) as a single harmonized test tool. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has expressed concern whether the injury assessment reference values (IARV) proposed in Amendment 2 will be able to meet the needs for injury mitigation in the United States of America. In order to allow the amendment to move forward, the United States proposes to accept the IARV while noting in the statement of technical rationale and justification its continuing research into the IARVs and the possibility of a future proposal to amend the values should this prove warranted.

Select Summaries of Hydrogen Incidents from the H2tools.org Lessons Learned Database

Copy of the proposal to establish a compendium of the test tools used in Global Technical Regulations (and UN Regulations) to permit such regulations test tools according to a single source rather than having to revise each regulation with each change in tool specifications.

NHTSA suggestion to propose the introduction of updated UN R30 provisions into GTR 16 as a separate initiative in order to avoid delays in agreement on Amendment 2.