Session 5
Wednesday 13 February 2008
14:00 - 17:30

Vehicle Design Workshop
Achieving vehicle safety improvements in an environment of conflicting requirements
Environmental and safety measures, both regulatory and market based, are putting huge pressures on the industry and governments to achieve order of magnitude improvements for consumers and society as a whole. In the case of safety, for example, measures to improve vehicle and occupant survivability often result in extra weight, which works against CO2 reduction. In the deployment of resources, there is also a conflict: there are not infinite resources to undertake all improvements on all fronts – something has to give.

This workshop will explore these issues and discuss the possible approaches that vehicle designers can take
towards reconciling these competing challenges.

Moderated by

Brian Knibb, Knibb Gormezano and Partners

Panel Members

Professor Adrian Hobbs, BSc, EurIng, CEng, FIMechE, European New Car Assessment Programme (EuroNCAP)

Professor Oliver Carsten, director of the Institute of Transport Safety & Professor of Transport Safety University of Leeds

Lars-Göran Löwenadler, safety director Volvo Truck Corporation

Plus others to be announced (see website for updates)

This session is open to all delegates at Safe Highways of the Future 2008. It will be an open forum with questions
from the floor and the opportunity to debate the issues with the panel and with fellow delegates.