Global NCAP’s First Emerging Market Automobile Safety Conference Proves Successful

At Global NCAP’s first Emerging Market Automobile Safety Conference, held this year in Delhi, experts from around the world gathered to examine and discuss the contribution of vehicle safety to the UN’s Decade of Action for Road Safety. The strong response to this first conference from government officials and vehicle manufacturers has been encouraging. The response from media and consumers in India has been overwhelmingly positive.

The conference included a special focus on automobile safety in India, with the presentation of the first independent crash tests for some of India’s most popular and iconic vehicles.

Presentations explored how regulatory standards in combination with consumer information can create a viable market for safer vehicles. Other sessions at the conference looked at the role of New Car Assessment Programmes in improving vehicle and road safety.

You can download the presentations given at the conference here:

– Global NCAP Secretary General David Ward: Automotive Safety in the UN’s Decade of Action
– Ian Yarnold, UK Department of Transport: Improving road safety through safer vehicles
– RASSI Chairman Ravishankar Rajaraman: Presentation of the Road Accident Sampling System India
– Global NCAP Technical Director Alejandro Furas: Global NCAP’s Indian Motor Vehicle Safety Project (To watch the videos of the crash tests, please visit our YouTube channel)

Presentations from NCAPs around the world included:

– Nicholas Clarke, Chief Executive Officer, Australasia NCAP
– Khairil Anwar Abu Kassim, Secretary General, ASEAN NCAP
– Michiel van Ratingen, Secretary General, Euro NCAP (pdf) (Prezi version here)
– Alejandro Furas, Chief Executive Officer (Designate), Latin NCAP

Presentations on crash avoidance technologies:

– Matthew Moore, Vice President, Highway Loss Data Institute
– Prabhakar Yellappa, R&D Manager, Denso