Engineers and technical experts association SAE International has announced the availability of a new scholarly journal focusing on accident prevention and occupant protection – specifically accident reconstruction, injury investigation, intra-vehicle safety mechanisms, and mitigation related to human travel.
The SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety encompasses basic research as well as issues of vehicle design and infrastructure. It provides a forum for scholarly works concerning all aspects of injury causation and mitigation associated with any transportation system. This includes safety mechanisms, impact, and injury response and tolerance on multiple scales, with the objective of developing restraint, vehicle, and infrastructure environments that are safer for the occupant, rider, passer-by, and war-fighter. Broad areas such as biomechanics, crashworthiness, accident reconstruction, and physical and computational modeling are within the Journal's scope.
For decades, SAE International has worked with industry leaders and researchers to present research and publish information on accident prevention and occupant protection. This new Journal facilitates discussion among researchers, engineers, academic faculty and students, and industry practitioners working with systems as well as components on the technological aspects of biomechanics, occupant restraints including child safety seats and automatic occupant protection systems (e.g., air bags), pedestrian safety, electric vehicles and noise, vehicle testing, and crashworthiness.
Two issues of the Journal will be published in 2013 (June and August). The first issue will feature technical papers from the SAE 2013 World Congress; and the second issue will feature technical papers from other events sponsored by SAE International and related organisations. An open call for papers is planned for 2014.
Dr. Warren Hardy, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest universities, is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal.
