David Ward, Global NCAP Secretary General, speaking at Indian Auto Safety Conference in Delhi

1. Global NCAP Update
David Ward
Secretary General
Global New Car Assessment Programme
Indian Automobile Safety Conference
IRTE
College of Traffic Management
16-17 May 2016
New Delhi

2. The UN Decade was launched in 2011 with the aim
to ‘stabilise and then reduce’ road fatalities. The
Decade is supported by a Global Plan with five
pillars of action:
1. Building Management Capacity
2. Encouraging Safer User Behaviour
3. Building Safer Vehicles
4. Building Safer Roads
5. Improving Post Crash Care
The Global Plan recommended vehicle related
measures include; application of minimum crash test
standards; encouragement of electronic stability
control and anti-lock brakes on motorcycles; and
promoting NCAPs in all world regions.
UN Decade of Action for Road Safety

3. On 25 September 2015 the UN adopted a
new agenda of Global Goals for Sustainable
Development.
Road safety is included in goals 3 and 11 for
health and cities with a target to:
Halve the number of global deaths
and injuries from road crashes by
2020.
It is the UN’s strongest ever road safety
commitment and will challenge all
Member States to strengthen their road
injury prevention policies and plans.
To meet the new target will require major
improvements in fatality rates per 100,000.
.
Global Goals for Sustainable Development and Road Safety
High Income Countries: from 8.7 per
deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 4 by 2020
Middle Income Countries: from 20.1 per
deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 7 by 2020
Low Income Countries: from 18.3 per
deaths per 100,000 in 2010 to 12 by
2020

4. The new UN target has been endorsed by the 2nd
Global High Level Conference on Road Safety held in
Brasilia (18-19 November 2015) and also by the UN
General Assembly in a new resolution on road safety
adopted on April 15.
On vehicle safety the Brasilia Declaration and the
General Assembly recommends the adoption of:
Policies and measures to implement United Nations
vehicle safety regulations or equivalent national
standards to ensure that all new motor vehicles,
meet applicable minimum regulations for occupant
and other road users protection, with seat belts, air
bags and active safety systems as standard.
This is the clearest and strongest commitment made
to vehicle safety made by UN Member States.
Brasilia Declaration and UN General Assembly Resolution

5. NCAP For Safer Cars…Worldwide
New Car Assessment Programmes
(NCAPs) promote a market for safety
by raising awareness of the car buying
public and encouraging manufacturers
to build safer vehicles.
There are now nine NCAPs active in
Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America
and the USA. Global NCAP was created
in 2011 and aims to:
• Offer support to NCAPs in rapidly motorising regions by offering technical support
guidance and quality assurance.
• Provide a platform for cooperation for NCAPs and like organisations around the
world to share best practice, and exchange information.
• Support the implementation of the Global Plan for the UN Decade of Action 2011-
2020 and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

6. UN Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
The Global Plan supports wider application
of the most important global standards
available under the 1958and 1998
agreements of the UN World Forum for
Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP29).*
These are:
Reg. 14 Seat belt anchorages
Reg. 16 Safety belts & restraints
Reg. 94 Frontal collision
Reg. 95 Lateral collision
Reg.13H (GTR 8) Electronic stability control
Reg.127 (GTR 9) Pedestrian protection
Reg. 44/129 Child restraints
*or equivalent national standards (eg: FVMSSs)

7. The 2015 Status Report:
• Reveals “worrying data” showing that
only 40 out of a total of 193 UN
Member States fully apply the seven
most important UN safety regulations
and these are overwhelmingly high-
income countries.
• Says “there is an urgent need for these
minimum vehicle standards to be
implemented by every country”.
• Warns that “regulations helping to
protect occupants withstand front and
side impact crashes are poorly
implemented globally” and also calls for
mandatory fitment of electronic
stability control.
WHO Global Road Safety Status Report 2015 - Vehicle Safety

8. Global NCAP’s Road Map for Safer Cars was
launched in March 2015 and :
• Calls for the combination of stronger
consumer information and universal
application of minimum UN standards for
crash protection and avoidance.
• Ten key recommendations including the
application to all new cars of the UN’s
front, side and pedestrian impact crash
tests and the anti-skid system, electronic
stability control, by 2020 at the latest.
• Global NCAP updated the Road Map in
November 2015 to include Automatic
Emergency Braking and anti-lock brakes in
motorcycles.
Democratizing Car Safety: A Road Map for Safer Cars 2020

9. Crash Worthiness: Front & Side Occupant Protection
Crash tests for front and side impact are the
most important assessment tools for occupant
protection; and are used both in legislation
and consumer information programmes.
The frontal impact simulates a car to car crash
in which the test vehicle hits a barrier that
replicates the soft front end of the other
vehicle. The impact is ‘offset’ with a 40%
overlap.
The UN Reg. 94 test speed is 56 km/h whilst
NCAP tests use 64 km/h (a speed at which
fatalities are very likely to occur).
The side impact test uses a trolley that hits the
vehicle just above the door sill area at 50 km/h.

10. Crash Avoidance: First Generation ‘eSafety’ Technologies
Three key crash avoidance systems are today’s priority
technologies for passenger cars, buses, commercial
vehicles and motor cycles:
Electronic Stability Control (ESC) anti-skid system
with capacity to reduce up to 40% of run-off road
crashes. Now mandatory in most high income
countries.
Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) automatically
applies the brakes if the driver does not react and can
cut collisions at low speed by 20%. Pedestrian systems
are also appearing and will become an important injury
prevention technology.
Motorcycle Anti-lock Brakes (ABS) improves stability
and braking performance. Motorcycles equipped with
ABS have rate of fatal crashes 37 per cent lower than
same models without.

12. • Meeting minimum crash standards costs less than US
$200 per vehicle.
• Airbag costs have fallen by over 60% in 15 years to
about US$50 per unit.
• Applying key crash avoidance technology (ABS/ESC)
costs about $100 per vehicle.
• Car companies use global platforms to produce many
different models with large costs reductions.
• Universal implementation of UN regulations bring
economies of scale, and promote fair competition.
• Governments can promote safer cars by giving short
term fiscal incentives for safety technologies.
• Fleet mangers can choose ‘five star’ safety rated
vehicles.
Market Pull & Regulatory Push Makes Safety Affordable

13. Better to Stop the Crash than Have One!
#Stop the Crash is a new global initiative to promote
the most important crash avoidance systems and also
tyre safety.
#Stop the Crash partners include the ADAC, Autoliv, Bosch,
Continental, Denso, Thatcham, ZF-TRW, and the Towards
Zero Foundation.
#Stop the Crash will promote electronic stability control,
autonomous emergency braking ,and anti-lock brakes on
motorcycles.
#Stop the Crash was launched last November in Brasilia
prior to the Global High Level Conference on Road
Safety and feature demonstrations for VIPs and the media.
#Stop the Crash events in 2016 will be held in Chile in June
and in Malaysia in November.

14. Global NCAP is pleased to acknowledge support from:
Thank You!