Location
Virtual EventNovember 1, 2024
12-3 p.m. ET
Join NHTSA’s Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) for its Research 2024 Overview. Representatives from CIREN contractors will share findings from recently-completed research projects related to NHTSA and CIREN priorities. This event is intended to provide public and stakeholder outreach on CIREN research activities. As time allows, there will be an opportunity for session attendees to submit questions.
Tentative Agenda
- 12:00 p.m.
- Opening remarks
NHTSA
- Opening remarks
- 12:10 p.m.
- “Sex Differences in Chest, Thoracolumbar, and Abdominopelvic Injury Patterns and Causation in Frontal Motor Vehicle Crashes”
Center for Injury Biomechanics, Wake Forest University
- “Sex Differences in Chest, Thoracolumbar, and Abdominopelvic Injury Patterns and Causation in Frontal Motor Vehicle Crashes”
- 12:40 p.m.
- “Improving the CIREN FE Reconstruction Framework: Characterizing and Addressing the Effects of Misspecification in Occupant Characteristics, Vehicle Characteristics, and Crash Pulse Shape”
School of Medicine, Emory University and University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- “Improving the CIREN FE Reconstruction Framework: Characterizing and Addressing the Effects of Misspecification in Occupant Characteristics, Vehicle Characteristics, and Crash Pulse Shape”
- 1:10 p.m.
- “Male-Female abdominal injuries in belted frontal impact: a CIREN case study”
Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- “Male-Female abdominal injuries in belted frontal impact: a CIREN case study”
- 1:40 p.m.
- “Transportation Data Linkage and Cost of Injury Analysis”
National Study Center, University of Maryland
- “Transportation Data Linkage and Cost of Injury Analysis”
- 2:10 p.m.
- “Effects of body shape and soft tissue distribution on lower extremity injury outcomes in males and females”
Center for Applied Biomechanics, University of Virginia
- “Effects of body shape and soft tissue distribution on lower extremity injury outcomes in males and females”
- 2:40 p.m.
- Overview of CIREN public data access
NHTSA
- Overview of CIREN public data access
- 2:50 p.m.
- Closing remarks
NHTSA
- Closing remarks
NHTSA is committed to providing equal access to this event for all participants. People with disabilities can submit an accommodation request, and people with limited English proficiency can submit a language access request. Please submit any request to NHTSA.Communication@dot.gov by October 25, 2024.