Update on the activity of the Alternative Method for the assessment of Electronic Vehicle Stability Control systems (AMEVSC) Informal Working Group since September, including on its meeting of 18 October 2011.

Revised draft copy of the “Proposal for Supplement 9 to the 11 series of amendments to Regulation No. 13” returned by GRRF for revision.

WABCO proposed changes to the draft text for Annex 21-Appendix 1 and Appendix 3 of the working document.

Working draft of Annex 21-Appendix 1 to UN R13 on heavy-duty braking systems that would address the use of dynamic stability simulations.

Working draft of Annex 21-Appendix 2 of UN R13 on heavy duty braking to address the use and validation of the dynamic stability simulation tool for evaluating electronic vehicle stability control systems.

Working draft of Annex 21-Appendix 3 of UN R13 on heavy-duty braking that addresses the test report to be used with the vehicle stability function simulation tool.

Copy of the text submitted to GRRF to clarify the requirements in Annex 21 of Regulation No. 13 regarding the use of simulation, specifically in the
Appendices 1, 2 and 3 of Annex 21.

List of the documents used across all the meetings of the AMEVSC informal group.

Table of amendments under discussion and justifications for revisions.

OICA-proposed amendments to document GRRF/2012/2 (Proposal for Supplement 10 to the 11 series of amendments to Regulation No. 13).

Proposal to clarify the use of test reports in Regulation No.13 as proposed under the Alternative Method for the Evaluation of Electronic Vehicle Stability Control Systems.

Proposed language for UN R13 paragraph 3.3 by Mr. W. Gaupp as considered by the VDA special “test reports in type-approval” working group at their meeting held 12th March 2012 in Berlin.

Knorr-Bremse comments on the OICA comments to document GRRF/2012/2 (Proposal for Supplement 10 to the 11 series of amendments to Regulation No. 13).

Proposal for additional wording to paragraph 3.3 in order to clarify the use of test reports and ensure that the vehicle manufacturer is fully aware that responsibility is not given away when using a test report in accordance with Annexes 11, 12 or 19.

AMEVSC group secretary’s final version of the revisions to the proposed amendments to the “Proposal for Supplement 10 to the 11 series of amendments to Regulation No. 13” (documents GRRF/2012/2 and AMEVSC-08-02) pursuant to the 8th group meeting during 10-11 May 2012.

AMEVSC secretary’s final version of the proposed amendments to Appendices 2 of Annex 21 to clarify the use of test reports for the validation of the simulation tool in order to avoid making test reports issued prior to entry into force of Supplement ¹⁰ to Series 11 of UN R13 invalid.

Catalog of the all the documents used throughout the meetings of the AMEVSC informal group since its inception.

Report on the additional deliberations of the AMEVSC informal working group to address comments made at 72nd GRRF session on the proposed use of simulation in Appendices 1, 2 and 3 of Annex 21 of UN R13, Supplement 10 to the 11 series of amendments (document GRRF/2012/2).

This text is a clean version of the AMEVSC draft text to amend UN R13 in which all references to ‘simulator’ have been changed to ‘simulation tool’ and the justification text, as prepared by the AMEVSC secretariat, has been added.

Working draft of the AMEVSC amendments to UN R13.

Proposed text for the paragraph and subparagraphs concerning the requirement to submit a “vehicle representative of the vehicle type to be approved” to the Technical Service conducting the approval tests.

Report of GRRF Alternative Method Electronic Vehicle Stability Control (AMEVSC) Informal Working Group

Working draft of the proposed amendments to UN R13 to enable the alternative method for the assessment of electronic stability control systems.

Use of test reports – results of an informal meeting during the 73rd GRRF session pursuant to the development of the alternative method for the assessment of electronic stability control systems.

OICA comments on the draft proposal to amend UN R13 to enable the alternative method for the assessment of electronic vehicle stability control systems.

Background information and the evolution of the test report signature requirements and on function test reports.

Master list of all documents submitted during the course of the AMEVSC informal group meetings.

Text prepared by the informal group on Alternative Method to assess the Electronic Vehicle Stability Control system (AMEVSC) clarifying the requirements in Annex 21 of UN Regulation No. 13 on the use of simulation, specifically in the Appendices 1, 2 and 3 of Annex 21.

Submission by the AMEVSC informal group to clarify the requirements in Annex 21 of Regulation No. 13 regarding the use of simulation, specifically in the Appendices 1, 2 and 3 of Annex 21, revising the earlier proposal in document GRRF/2012/02.