Draft report of the GTR 9 expert group in support of the proposed amendment to the pedestrian safety GTR that would introduce the Flexible Pedestrian Legform Impactor (Flex-PLI) test tool.

Proposal of amendments to address various concerns and reflect the outcomes of discussions with the experts from EC, Japan, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, United States of America and OICA.

Updated draft amendment as revised during the 16-17 December 2013 session of the Informal Group on GTR 9-Phase 2. The amendment would introduce the Flex PLI lower legform impactor and related test procedures into the GTR on pedestrian safety protection.

Updated draft amendment as revised during the 16-17 December 2013 session of the Informal Group on GTR 9-Phase 2. The amendment would introduce the Flex PLI lower legform impactor and related test procedures into the GTR on pedestrian safety protection.

Draft report in support of the proposed amendment to the pedestrian safety GTR that would introduce the Flexible Pedestrian Legform Impactor (Flex-PLI) test tool.

Presentation of US concerns regarding proposed definitions for locating the point of measurement (i.e. measuring point, target point, and first contact point definitions) within the test zone, changes to the test zone boundaries to clarify the adult and child Head Injury Criterion (HIC) zones, and to amend the leg form test procedure to align the leg form center plane with its measuring point.

[Note: the reference to document GRSP/2011/12 does not appear to correspond with the content of the US statement. Rather, the remarks align more closely with document GRSP-54-07/Rev.1 proposing changes to the draft amendment as presented in document GRSP/2013/25).]

Statement of US concerns with the draft amendment to introduce the Flex PLI test tool into GTR No. 9 (document GRSP/2013/25) in particular with regard to the use of the injury assessment reference values (IARVs). US definition of the IARV will be dependent upon the outcome of a US cost-benefit analysis based upon the characteristics of the American vehicle population. The US cannot accept injury curves that do not fall within what is justifiable according to US traffic conditions.

The draft amendment to introduce the Flex PLI test tool as updated in the informal working group meeting of 16 – 17 December 2013.

Update on changes to the CONFOR foam flesh used in the EEVC lower and upper legform impactors.

Text prepared by the European Commission and Germany to align the test requirements of UN GTR No. 9 Phase 2 with those of Amendment 2 to the UN GTR concerning the determination of the headform test points.

Suggested changes to the proposal made by the GTR 9-Phase 2 informal group to the GRSP for amendments to the UN Regulation on pedestrian protection of motor vehicles (document GRSP/2013/26).

Update on the EC-commissioned study to investigate prospects for changing the 60° plane used in several regulations to define the corners of bumpers.

Presentation of findings from an analysis of pedestrian-accident data from the UK and Germany.

Document as updated at the 4th TF-BTA session.

Text prepared by the informal expert group on the Phase 2 development of the GTR on pedestrian safety to introduce the new FlexPLI lower legform test tool into the test procedures.

OICA review and proposals for improvement of the FlexPLI leg form test tool manual.

Comments on document GTR-07-05/Corr.1

Comments on document GTR9-06-23

Report on the development of the Flex-PLI legform impactor and its use within pedestrian protection performance testing.

Second draft of the meeting minutes.

Development of the Flex-GTR Master Leg FE Model and Evaluation of the Validity of the Current Threshold Values against the Flex-GTR Master Leg

A comparison of tibia bending moment time histories has shown that the exaggerated secondary peak of the FlexPLI model relative to the human model may affect the maximum value for some specific vehicles.

Revised version of the document.

Revised version of the earlier document.

Summary of pedestrian safety drawing packages as provided by Humanetics.

Status presentation on EC pedestrian safety study that has now been awarded to TRL.

Comparison of the behaviour from FlexPLI and Human Model THUMS in the outer area of the bumper. This is an expanded version of the original presentation.

Draft text of provisions for insertion into the global technical regulation on pedestrian safety protection to enable use of the flexible pedestrian lower legform impactor (FlexPLI), prepared by the chairman of the informal working group on the global technical regulation No. 9 (Pedestrian safety)-Phase 2.

Update on the development of a proposal to amend the pedestrian safety GTR by introducing the flexible pedestrian legform impactor (FlexPLI) as the single harmonized test tool.

Review of EEVC and Flex-PLI legform behavior in tests along the bumper test area and bumper corner.

Review of test results applying the Flex PLI and EEVC legs outside the regulatory bumper test area.

Presentation on injury thresholds by researchers from Toyota, Honda, and Nissan.

Japanese responses to the US OEM comments on the FlexPLI cost-benefit analysis.

German reply to US OEM comments (JP Research review of JASIC & BASt Flex-PLI Injury Reduction Estimate) on the FlexPLI cost-benefit analysis.

Presentation on Japanese data for leg injuries in pedestrian accidents during 1993-2003.

Some (historic) arguments that may have influenced the styling of today’s vehicles’ exterior shapes

Ford Motor Co. evaluation of the FlexPLI impactor and test procedures.

Results from Shape Corp. evaluation of FlexPLI impactor and pedestrian protection test procedure.

OICA updated proposal concerning FlexPLI test results and the measurement criteria appropriate for GTR 9-Phase 2 test procedures.

Technical questions concerning the design and materials composition of the FlexPLI impactor following review of current drawing package.

OICA response opposing the BASt proposal (document GTR9-5-20) to change the impactor thresholds for FlexPLI testing.

Status presentation on EC pedestrian safety study that has now been awarded to TRL.

Proposal for wording to consider tolerances of the normal ride height.

Letter of transmittal for the JP Research review of JASIC and BASt Flex-PLI injury-reduction estimates.

Comparison of the behaviour from FlexPLI and Human Model THUMS in the outer area of the bumper.

Presentation on results of Japanese evaluation of the EEVC legform impactor using different impact angles.

Guidelines for the development of drawings for a test tool to be added as an Addendum to UN Mutual Resolution No. 1 (M.R.1)

Pedestrian Protection, Lower Leg Impact Test Area: Corner of Bumper at Series BMW Vehicles

Corrected version of the revised minutes.

Initial comments of OICA representatives to the 5th IG GTR9-PH2 meeting in response to document GTR9-5-20: corrected version.

Revised list pursuant to session 5.