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SAFETY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
FOR PARATRANSIT BUSES IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA
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The program developed by the CIAL was approved by the Transit Office of the Florida Department of Transportation in August 2007.
Several valuable, worldwide vehicle safety standards were adopted in it with modifications addressing
the bus construction process and relevance of particular structural components in crash events.
Passenger compartment structure, which needs to be protected against the most dangerous accidents
such as a side impact and a rollover, is a major area of concern in the standard. Lack of such
standards may result in poor crashworthiness characteristics of the bus structure and in severe
injuries and possible passenger fatalities. Either full scale experiments or numerical standardized
simulations were proposed as equivalent approval methods for paratransit buses. The FE models can also be
used to assist the bus manufacturer in an effort to improve the crashworthiness of the new bus designs.
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Figure 1. Approval methods for paratransit buses
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The full document is available at the website of
Transit-Research-Inspection-Procurement Services (TRIPS)
under "Crash and Safety Testing Standard" link or directly under the link below
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Download the Standard
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