A paper presented by a TARS researcher at the 1st International Roadside Safety Conference in San Francisco this past June was awarded the Best International Paper Award. The paper, which was titled 'Development of a Motorcycle FE Model for Simulating Impacts into Roadside Safety Barriers', described the development and validation of a computer model of a sport touring motorcycle to be used to investigate upright crashes of motorcyclists into road safety barriers.

 

 

If you are interested to learn more about this research, you can download the paper as well as the presentation.