[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 164 (Thursday, August 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44114-44115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-21002]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Research and Development Programs Meeting
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a public meeting at which NHTSA will
describe and discuss specific research and development projects.
Further, the notice requests suggestions for topics to be presented by
the agency.
DATES AND TIMES: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
will hold a public meeting devoted primarily to presentations of
specific research and development projects on September 21, 1995,
beginning at 1:30 p.m. and ending at approximately 5 p.m. The deadline
for interested parties to suggest agenda topics is 4:15 p.m. on
September 5, 1995. Questions may be submitted in advance regarding the
agency's research and development projects. They must be submitted in
writing by September 12, 1995, to the address given below. If
sufficient time is available, questions received after the September 12
date will be answered at the meeting in the discussion period. The
individual, group, or company asking a question does not have to be
present for the question to be answered. A consolidated list of the
questions submitted by September 12 will be available at the meeting
and will be mailed to requesters after the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C
Street SW., Washington, DC 20024. Suggestions for specific R&D topics
as described below and questions for the September 21, 1995, meeting
relating to the agency's research and development programs should be
submitted to the Office of the Associate Administrator for Research and
Development, NRD-01, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Room 6206, 400 Seventh St. SW., Washington, DC 20590. The fax number is
202-366-5930.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA intends to provide detailed
presentations about its research and development programs in a series
of quarterly public meetings. The series started in April 1993. The
purpose is to make available more complete and timely information
regarding the agency's research and development programs. This eleventh
meeting in the series will be held on September 21, 1995.
NHTSA requests suggestions from interested parties on the specific
agenda topics to be presented. NHTSA will base its decisions about the
agenda, in part, on the suggestions it receives by close of business at
4:15 p.m. on September 5, 1995. Before the meeting, it will publish a
notice with an agenda listing the research and development topics to be
discussed. The agenda can also be obtained by calling or faxing the
information numbers listed elsewhere in this notice. NHTSA asks that
the suggestions be limited to six, in priority order, so that the
presentations at the September 21 R&D meeting can be most useful to the
audience. Specific R&D topics are listed below. Many of these topics
have been discussed at previous meetings. Suggestions for agenda topics
are not restricted to this listing, and interested parties are invited
to suggest other R&D topics of specific interest to their
organizations.
Specific R&D topic is:
On-line tracking system for NHTSA's research projects.
Specific Crashworthiness R&D topics are:
Improved frontal crash protection problem analysis and program status,
Advanced glazing research,
Highway traffic injury studies,
Head and neck injury research,
Lower extremity injury research,
Thorax injury research,
Human injury simulation and analysis,
Crash test dummy component development,
Vehicle aggressivity and fleet compatibility,
Upgrade side crash protection,
Upgrade seat and occupant restraint systems,
Child safety research (specifically ISOFIX),
Electric and alternate fuel vehicle safety, and,
Truck crashworthiness/occupant protection.
Specific Crash Avoidance R&D topics are:
Truck tire traction,
Portable data acquisition system for crash avoidance research,
Systems to enhance EMS response (automatic collision notification),
Vehicle motion environment data collection system,
Crash causal analysis,
Human factors guidelines for crash avoidance warning devices,
Longer combination vehicle safety,
Drowsy driver monitoring,
Driver workload assessment,
Performance guidelines for ITS systems (approach),
Variable dynamics test vehicle,
Engineering description of precrash events,
Preliminary rearend collision avoidance system guidelines,
Preliminary road departure collision avoidance system guidelines, and
Preliminary intersection collision avoidance system guidelines.
Separately, questions regarding research projects that have been
submitted in writing not later than close of business on September 12,
1995, will be answered. A transcript of the meeting, copies of
materials handed out at the meeting, and copies of the suggestions
offered by commenters will be available for public inspection in the
NHTSA's Technical Reference Section, Room 5108, 400 Seventh St. SW.,
Washington, DC 20590. Copies of the transcript will then be available
at 10 cents a page, upon request to NHTSA's Technical Reference
Section. The Technical Reference Section is open to the public from
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
NHTSA will provide technical aids to participants as necessary,
during the Research and Development Programs Meeting. Thus, any person
desiring the
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assistance of ``auxiliary aids'' (e.g., sign-language interpreter,
telecommunication devices for deaf persons (TTDs), readers, taped
texts, braille materials, or large print materials and/or a magnifying
device), please contact Rita Gibbons on 202-366-4862 by close of
business September 15, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita Gibbons, Staff Assistant, Office
of Research and Development, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: 202-366-4862. Fax number: 202-366-5930.
Issued: August 18, 1995.
William A. Boehly,
Associate Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 95-21002 Filed 8-23-95; 8:45 am]
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