Vehicle Safety Research

The research efforts conducted under this contract will be performed through issuance of a task order that will provide a range of research skills that will be used to plan, conduct vehicle safety research tests such as dynamic crash tests, static and dynamic rollover tests, sled tests and static tests for late model production and/or modified vehicles. Another research effort is in the area of pedestrian testing. For some of these tests NHTSA requires development and fabrication of test devices and test fixtures for evaluating both vehicles and dummies.  The Contractor also shall be required to provide quality control (QC) as a result of the data.

As part of this research, VSR performs vehicle safety research tests, such as vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-barrier, sled tests, rollover tests, and additional impact tests, to determine the type of crash response of occupant restraints and human surrogates anthropomorphic test dummies (ATDs) undergo in vehicle crashes. This also requires handling, instrumentation, and qualification testing of ATDs. Another research effort is in the area of pedestrian testing. This may include dynamic or static testing of the exterior of the vehicle. NHTSA also performs static test of vehicle components to determine the performance of a vehicle components in the real-world crashes.  In performing these dynamic and static test NHTSA may have to build test devices to achieve its goal.