The objectives of CASPER are to reduce fatalities and injuries of children in traffic accidents with focus on children as car occupants.
CASPER will address two main aspects:
- On one hand, the improvement of the efficiency of child protection through the development of innovative tools, such as new sensors, dummies models and child human models, completed by test procedures in frontal and lateral configurations, with associated injury criteria, in order to provide to CRS manufacturers the possibility to develop and test their products at a lower cost, with new methods, and at a same guarantee of efficiency.
- On another hand, 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 of the project are:
- 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 (work package 1),
- the development of human body models or human body model parts for children of various ages (work package 2),
- reports on the conditions of use of child restraint systems and consequences in accidents, including campaigns of information will be made in order to solve the problem of children involved in traffic accidents (work package 3),
- proposals for improving child safety in cars by new assessment methods, new technologies and solutions for both CRS and cars (work package 4).
In addition to that all dissemination and exploitation activities will be coordinated with work package 5.
Seven European countries are involved in this Consortium, with 14 partners who all have a long experience in the field of child safety. They have complementary profiles and were chosen for their high level of competence as regards crash investigations, test performance, computer simulations, experience on dummies and instrumentation, injury biomechanics, computer modelling and virtual testing.
Project details
Acronym: CASPER
Start Date: 2009-04-01
Duration: 36 months
Project Cost: 5.79 million euro
Contract Type: Small or medium-scale focused research project
End Date: 2012-03-31
Project Status: Execution
Project Funding: 3.85 million euro
