Heavy Truck Rollover Characterization (Phase A)

This project will increase the understanding of the interactions of vehicle load, tires, suspensions, vehicle types, vehicle stiffness (tractor and trailer), and roadway surfaces/tire interface on truck rollover events can contribute significantly to improving heavy truck safety. Such understanding can be applied to support the design and evaluation of new technologies such as wider axles, wider single tires, adaptive suspension systems, rollover warning systems, etc. It can also contribute to improving roadway design to minimize the potential for truck rollover stemming from vehicle-highway interactions, and can contribute to more effective regulation aimed at reducing truck rollovers.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ntrci.org/projects/u02.html
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This project is funded by National Transportation Research Center Inc. NTRCI-UTC which is a separate entity from the the University of Tennessee Regional UTC called the "STC"

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $645673.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT-06-G-0043

  DTRT-06-G-0043-U02

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Transportation Research Center, Incorporated

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Knoxville, TN  United States  37932
• Project Managers:

  Petrolino, Joseph

• Performing Organizations:

  Volvo Trucks North Amercia

  7900 National Service Road
  Greensboro, NC  United States 

  Transportation Research Center

  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  4505 Maryland Parkway, MS 4007
  Las Vegas, NV  United States  89154

  Western Michigan University

  1903 W. Michigan Avenue
  Kalamazoo, MI  United States  49008-5241

  Michelin Amercia Research & Development Corporation

  M.A.R.C.
  PO Box 1987
  Greenville, SC  United States  29602-1987

  GiaLink

  8509 Mason's Pond Drive
  Colfax, NC  United States  27235

  Clemson University

  Box 345702, Room 300, Brackett Hall
  Clemson, SC  United States  29634

  Battelle Memorial Institute

  Columbus Laboratories
  Columbus, OH  United States  43201

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Post Office Box X
  Oak Ridge, TN  United States  37831
• Principal Investigators:

  Knee, Bill

• Start Date: 20070301
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20080830
• Source Data: RiP Project 14378

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Research projects; Rollover crashes; Suspensions; Tractor trailer combinations; Truck crashes; Truck traffic; Trucking safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01464825
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Transportation Research Center, Incorporated
• Contract Numbers: DTRT-06-G-0043, DTRT-06-G-0043-U02
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:50PM