Global NCAP Update

David Ward Secretary GeneralGlobal New Car Assessment Programme

Indian Automobile Safety ConferenceIRTE College of Traffic Management 16-17 May 2016New Delhi

The UN Decade was launched in 2011 with the aimto ‘stabilise and then reduce’ road fatalities. TheDecade is supported by a Global Plan with fivepillars of action:

1. Building Management Capacity2. Encouraging Safer User Behaviour3. Building Safer Vehicles4. Building Safer Roads 5. Improving Post Crash Care

The Global Plan recommended vehicle related measures include; application of minimum crash test standards; encouragement of electronic stability control and anti-lock brakes on motorcycles; and promoting NCAPs in all world regions.

UN Decade of Action for Road Safety

On 25 September 2015 the UN adopted a new agenda of Global Goals for SustainableDevelopment.

Road safety is included in goals 3 and 11 for health and cities with a target to:

Halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road crashes by 2020.

It is the UN’s strongest ever road safetycommitment and will challenge allMember States to strengthen their roadinjury prevention policies and plans.

To meet the new target will require majorimprovements in fatality rates per 100,000.

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Global Goals for Sustainable Development and Road Safety

High Income Countries: from 8.7 per deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 4 by 2020

Middle Income Countries: from 20.1 per deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 7 by 2020

Low Income Countries: from 18.3 per deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 12 by 2020

The new UN target has been endorsed by the 2nd Global High Level Conference on Road Safety held in Brasilia (18-19 November 2015) and also by the UN General Assembly in a new resolution on road safety adopted on April 15.

On vehicle safety the Brasilia Declaration and the General Assembly recommends the adoption of:

Policies and measures to implement United Nations vehicle safety regulations or equivalent national standards to ensure that all new motor vehicles, meet applicable minimum regulations for occupant and other road users protection, with seat belts, air bags and active safety systems as standard.

This is the clearest and strongest commitment made to vehicle safety made by UN Member States.

Brasilia Declaration and UN General Assembly Resolution

NCAP For Safer Cars…Worldwide

New Car Assessment Programmes (NCAPs) promote a market for safetyby raising awareness of the car buyingpublic and encouraging manufacturers to build safer vehicles.

There are now nine NCAPs active in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the USA. Global NCAP was created in 2011 and aims to:

• Offer support to NCAPs in rapidly motorising regions by offering technical support guidance and quality assurance.

• Provide a platform for cooperation for NCAPs and like organisations around the world to share best practice, and exchange information.

• Support the implementation of the Global Plan for the UN Decade of Action 2011-2020 and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

UN Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

The Global Plan supports wider applicationof the most important global standards available under the 1958and 1998 agreements of the UN World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP29).*

These are:

Reg. 14 Seat belt anchoragesReg. 16 Safety belts & restraintsReg. 94 Frontal collisionReg. 95 Lateral collisionReg.13H (GTR 8) Electronic stability controlReg.127 (GTR 9) Pedestrian protectionReg. 44/129 Child restraints

*or equivalent national standards (eg: FVMSSs)

The 2015 Status Report:

• Reveals “worrying data” showing that only 40 out of a total of 193 UN Member States fully apply the seven most important UN safety regulations and these are overwhelmingly high-income countries.

• Says “there is an urgent need for these minimum vehicle standards to be implemented by every country”.

• Warns that “regulations helping to protect occupants withstand front and side impact crashes are poorly implemented globally” and also calls for mandatory fitment of electronic stability control.

WHO Global Road Safety Status Report 2015 - Vehicle Safety

Global NCAP’s Road Map for Safer Cars waslaunched in March 2015 and :

• Calls for the combination of stronger consumer information and universal application of minimum UN standards for

crash protection and avoidance.

• Ten key recommendations including the application to all new cars of the UN’s front, side and pedestrian impact crash tests and the anti-skid system, electronic stability control, by 2020 at the latest.

• Global NCAP updated the Road Map in November 2015 to include Automatic Emergency Braking and anti-lock brakes in motorcycles.

Democratizing Car Safety: A Road Map for Safer Cars 2020

Crash Worthiness: Front & Side Occupant Protection

Crash tests for front and side impact are themost important assessment tools for occupantprotection; and are used both in legislation and consumer information programmes.

The frontal impact simulates a car to car crashin which the test vehicle hits a barrier that replicates the soft front end of the other vehicle. The impact is ‘offset’ with a 40% overlap.

The UN Reg. 94 test speed is 56 km/h whilst NCAP tests use 64 km/h (a speed at whichfatalities are very likely to occur).

The side impact test uses a trolley that hits thevehicle just above the door sill area at 50 km/h.

Crash Avoidance: First Generation ‘eSafety’ TechnologiesThree key crash avoidance systems are today’s priority technologies for passenger cars, buses, commercial vehicles and motor cycles:

Electronic Stability Control (ESC) anti-skid system with capacity to reduce up to 40% of run-off road crashes. Now mandatory in most high income countries.

Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) automatically applies the brakes if the driver does not react and cancut collisions at low speed by 20%. Pedestrian systems are also appearing and will become an important injury prevention technology.

Motorcycle Anti-lock Brakes (ABS) improves stability and braking performance. Motorcycles equipped withABS have rate of fatal crashes 37 per cent lower thansame models without.

• Meeting minimum crash standards costs less than US $200 per vehicle.

• Airbag costs have fallen by over 60% in 15 years to about US$50 per unit.

• Applying key crash avoidance technology (ABS/ESC) costs about $100 per vehicle.

• Car companies use global platforms to produce many different models with large costs reductions.

• Universal implementation of UN regulations bring economies of scale, and promote fair competition.

• Governments can promote safer cars by giving short term fiscal incentives for safety technologies.

• Fleet mangers can choose ‘five star’ safety rated vehicles.

Market Pull & Regulatory Push Makes Safety Affordable

Better to Stop the Crash than Have One! #Stop the Crash is a new global initiative to promote the most important crash avoidance systems and also tyre safety.

#Stop the Crash partners include the ADAC, Autoliv, Bosch, Continental, Denso, Thatcham, ZF-TRW, and the Towards Zero Foundation.

#Stop the Crash will promote electronic stability control, autonomous emergency braking ,and anti-lock brakes on motorcycles.

#Stop the Crash was launched last November in Brasilia prior to the Global High Level Conference on RoadSafety and feature demonstrations for VIPs and the media.

#Stop the Crash events in 2016 will be held in Chile in June and in Malaysia in November.

Global NCAP is pleased to acknowledge support from:

Thank You!