INTERNATIONAL HARMONIZED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (IHRA) STATUS REPORT OF THE VEHICLE COMPATIBILITY WORKING GROUP

摘要

The IHRA Compatibility working group was set up after work in the area was already underway in several countries. The task of the working group has been to co-ordinate these efforts, and to steer them towards common goals. One of these goals is to have results available by 2001, to achieve this all participants have been encouraged to think now about possible testing methods so that there can be concurrent activities to reduce the overall time frame. A second goal concerns deriving common methods to control compatibility, which takes into account the dissimilar conditions applying on different continents. It is apparent that fleet mix could be an area which poses a problem as the average sizes of vehicles vary dramatically between continents.