The National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) is a successful collaborative effort among the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and The George Washington University (GWU). Chartered in 1992 at GW's School of Engineering and Applied Science, the NCAC primarily supports the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) strategic goal to reduce fatalities and injuries on the Nation's roadways, but has served to enhance efforts to improve safety worldwide. The missions of the NCAC include:
- improving safety by expanding researchers' knowledge about crashes,
- developing and sharing the detailed vehicle and hardware models, and
- leading efforts to apply computer simulation tools to enable researchers to study the complex interactions associated with crashes.
| RECENT HIGHLIGHTS | |
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| New and updated publications posted to Technical Summaries & Working Papers. (5/4/2012) | |
| A new finite element model of the 2010 Toyota Yaris is now available for download. (12/21/2011) | |
| National Crash Analysis Center to lead computer-simulated testing for advanced crash-test dummy. (12/8/2011) | |
| A new finite element model of the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado is now available for download. (2/27/2009) | |
| SEAS Researchers and Graduate Students Present Papers at the 2008 SAE World Congress. (6/18/2008) | |
| Five Labs That Make Going to Class the Best Part of College - Popular Science, August 2007. (9/28/2007) | |
| UPCOMING EVENTS & SEMINARS |
