CASPER - Child Advanced Safety Project for European Roads

The objectives of CASPER are to reduce fatalities and injuries of children in traffic accidents. This project will address two main aspects: (1) the improvement of the efficiency of child protection through the development of innovative tools, such as new sensors, dummy models and child human models, completed by test procedures in frontal and lateral configurations, with associated injury criteria; (2) the analysis of the reasons and consequences of misuse of child restraint systems and of the influence of the real conditions of transportation of children, as compared to the certification test procedures. The main deliverables will be the improvement of biomechanical behaviour of existing dummies associated to new measurements sensors, as well as dummies and child human numerical models, with improved test procedures, which will allow solving the issues for improvement of children protection.

The CASPER consortium consists of 14 partners who all have a long experience in the field of child safety.