Safetrain and Safetram Projects:Results and Objectives

Posted: Tuesday 19 June 2007

SAFETRAIN is a research project on Train Crashworthiness for Europe, funded by the European Commission and sponsored by UlC, having started the 1 st August 1997 with the duration of 4 years.
The main objective of SAFETRAIN is to reduce the numbcrs of fatalities and serious injuries in railway accidents through new improvcd design of vehicle structures. To
improve railway cars passive safety SAFETRAIN has developed technology to manage the collision energy and designed specific impact structures to crush in a controlled and progressive way. The survival space for occupants is maintained and acceleration levels felt by occupants are limited.
The SAFETRAIN research serves as basis for thc Euro Norm production within the Work Group 2 of the CEN regarding
the crashworthiness requirements for rail carbodies Classes I to 111.

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