Review of the development of Flex-GTR corridors during the previous phases of development of the pedestrian safety GTR (through the Technical Evaluation Group (TEG)).

Updated version of the historical review of the development of the certification corridors for the Flex-GTR test tool developed for the phase 2 amendments to GTR 9 on pedestrian safety.

Adopted minutes from the first technical session of the task force evaluating the certification corridors for the Flex-GTR test tool developed for the GTR on pedestrian safety.

NHTSA presentation on the development post-mortem human subject injury risk curves for use in developing injury assessment reference values for evaluating head restraint effectiveness in rear impacts.

Review of J-MLIT,JASIC, and JARI preliminary results from research into the Inter-Vertebral Neck Injury Criterion (IV-NIC) as part of collobarative investigations with the USA.

Netherlands presentation concerning the effort to ensure that head restraints provide effective protection at maximum height levels.

Netherlands proposal intended to enhance head restraint effectiveness for taller people.

Presentation on sled tests of the PDB dummies conducted by NHTSA’s Vehicle Research and Test Center (VRTC) to assist Humanetics in identifying causes of the reproducibility problem encountered by the Partnership for Dummy Technology and Biomechanics (PDB).

Results of the Occupant Safety Research Partnership evaluation of dummies provided by the Partnership for Dummy Technology and Biomechanics (PDB) to determine if the
upper-neck response-differences observed across PDB dummies could be repeated and the source(s) of the differences identified.

Review of Humanetics evaluation of test dummies provided by the Partnership for Dummy Technology and Biomechanics (PDB), a cooperative venture by German car manufacturers in the competitively neutral field of crash test dummy technology, biomechanics and simulation.

PDB comparison of test results pursuant to the Occupant Safety Research Partnership testing of the PDB dummies.

Draft report on the activities of the technical evaluation group developing certification procedures for the BioRID II dummy.

Extensive presentation on the results of investigations into BioRID seat test responses compared against certification results, in particular with regard to repeatability and reproducibility.

Presentation on the results of investigations designed to measure quasi-static spine stiffnesses and performance of the BioRID II dummy.

OICA/CLEPA presentation supporting the use a of head-restraint measuring device (HRMD) to enhance GTR 7 test procedures.