Promotion of road safety in Japan by the Japan New Car Assessment Program. Presentation given by J-NCAP at the 2014 Global NCAP Annual Meeting. CATARC, Tianjin, China. 30 October 2014

1. Promotion of Road Safety by NCAP
in JAPAN
October 30th 2014
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
National Agency for Automotive Safety &Victims’ Aid
(NASVA)
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2. 1. Relationship between Ministry and NASVA
“We implement easy access environment for the public to choose safer car and
enhance their mind for safety. This is one of the main pillars of vehicles safety
measures, it will be necessary to enrich further more.” (Administrative Reform
Promotion Meeting, December 20, 2013)
Safety
Regulations
Mitigation of road
traffic accidents
By MLIT
NTSEL
JASIC
NTSEL By MLIT
JNCAP
ASV
Project
By MLIT
NASVA
MLIT : Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
NTSEL : National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory
JASIC : Japan Automobile Standards Internationalization Center
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3. 2. History of JNCAP
Test items
New Car Assessment
Ⅰ. Crash Safety
’95 ’99 ’00 ’01 ’03 ’09
Overall evaluation (2000)
Full-overlap Frontal Collision Test
Offset Frontal Collision Test
Side Collision Test
Rear Impact Sled Test
Ⅱ. Pedestrian Protection
Side Curtain Airbag evaluation (2008)
’07 ’12 ’14
New overall evaluation (2011)
Evaluation of Rear Seat Passengers (2009)
Head Protection Performance Test
Leg Protection Performance Test
Ⅲ. Passenger Seat Belt Reminder
Test
Ⅳ. Seat Belt Usability Test
Ⅴ. Braking Performance Test
Ⅵ. Advanced Safety Tech.
Assessment
Child Seat Assessment
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Occupant Protection Against Electrical
Shock After Collision (2011)
Crash speed increased (2012)
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4. 4
3. JNCAP tests for overall evaluation
Passenger Protection Performance Evaluation
Full-overlap Frontal
Collision Test
- Test Speed: 55km/h
- Driver Seat & Front
Passenger Seat
Side Collision Test
- Test Speed: 55km/h
- DMB: 950kg
- Driver Seat
Neck Injury Test
- Test Speed (Δv）: 20.0km/h
- Driver / Passenger Seat
Pedestrian Protection Performance Evaluation
Pedestrian Head
Protection Test
- Test Speed: 35m/h
Pedestrian Leg Protection
Test
- Test Speed: 40km/h
- Flex-PLI
Offset Frontal Collision
Test
- Test Speed: 64km/h
- Driver Seat & Rear Seat
Seat Belt Reminder Evaluation
This mark shows that high-voltage battery electrolyte leakage performance
and high-voltage battery fastening status has been met.

5. 4. Pedestrian Protection and Seat Belt Reminder
With the consideration of the pedestrian protection measures,
the new overall evaluation has been started since FY2011.
Passenger Seat Belt
Reminder (8 points)
Overall evaluation for vehicle safety
Total score: 208 points
Occupant Protection
(100 points)
Pedestrian Protection
(100 points)
Passenger seat
belt reminder
Head
protection
Leg
protection
★★★★★ 5
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6. 5. Significance of NCAP
NCAP suggests the effect to death toll reduction
Transition of the evaluation index of a
succeeding models (33 models)
passenger protection
5.30
6.0
5.8
5.6
5.4
5.2
5.0
4.8
4.6
performance
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
乗車中の死者数
（人）
歩行中の死者数
（人）
start examination of enforcement
Start of pedestrian protection
performance test
Start of overall evaluation which weighs
more on pedestrian tests
Driver seat Passenger seat
Transition of the assessment highest evaluation (5* prize) in recent years
year Highest remarks by the model No. of 5★star
2011 １７９.６pt（Lexus：ＣＴ200h） 3 models
2012 １８４.８pt (Mitsubishi; Outlander） 6 models
2013 １８９.７pt（TOYOTA; CROWN） 7 models*
※including 1 mini-car model
5.35
5.69
5.63
4.4
運転席助手席
旧車種後継車種
3.67
4.00
5.0
4.6
4.2
3.8
3.4
3.0
2.6
2.2
1.8
pedestrian head protection
performance
Succeeding model, improvement made based
on the result JNCAP.
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H元3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25
NCAP reflecting the actual traffic accident data
Average Score
year
Passenger
vehicle
Mini-car
2011 162.6pt 146.8pt
2012 174.2pt 156.0pt
2013 176.4pt 160.7pt
Starts assessment（passenger
protection performance test）
*Car occupants
deaths
*pedestrian
deaths
□ Conventinal □Succeeding model
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7. 6 . Results in 2013
・5 Star Award ：7 models
・Top rating ：TOYOTA CROWN（189.7pt）
・Top rating in Mini-sized car ： HONDA N－WGN（178.8pt）
TOYOTA Crown Hybrid HONDA N-WGN
- Pop-up bonnet system
- A backseat, a seat belt with a
pretension system, force limiter
system and seat belt reminder system
- A backseat, a seat belt with a
force limiter system and seat
belt reminder system
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★★★★★ 5

8. 7. Our subject and measures
 In order to prevent the damage of the elderly people, the pedestrian and the bicycle
The number of accident what the elderly
people are the party concerned
平成
元年
平成
6年
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
Number of
accident
1989 1994 1999 2004 2010
件数24,169 42,249 67,813 100,93 111,21
driver, to prevent the accident itself is important.
Death toll ratio of the elderly people; pedestrian
Death toll
1,584人
平成
11年
平成
16年
平成
22年
Over 65 age
７０%
The future road safety image by vehicle safety
Death toll by road
accidents
measures
Reduction by the measure on
post-collision damage
mitigation
Reduction by the
measures on advanced
technology
year
（2013）
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The spread of advanced safety technology which avoids a collision is indispensable.

9. 8. Roadmap for Advanced Safety Technology Assessment
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AEBS
Forward Collision
Warning System（car to
car）
Forward Collision
Warning System（car to
pedestrian）
LDWS
Lane Departure Warning
System
Others Around View Monitor etc.
2014 2015 2016
Test starts
Making of test methods and
procedure
Test starts
Making of test methods
and procedure
Test starts
Test starts

10. 9. Progress of Advanced Safety Technology Assessment
1.The outline of Advanced Safety Technology Assessment
Steering committee decided in 2014
(1) Autonomous Emergency Braking System (AEBS)[test protocol]
(2) Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) [test protocol]
(3) Overall evaluation of Advanced Safety Technology [evaluation and publication
method]
2. Implementation of AEBS and LDWS
(1) Test start from April 2014; Test result was released on October 21st, 2014.
(2) Use of a logo mark; Manufactures can release the result with the use of Logo.
【Logo】
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11. 10. Conclusion
1 The promotion of NCAP is important in order to
reduce traffic accident.
2 JNCAP plays a significant role in Japan.
3 Assessment for Advanced safety technology is
lunched in 2014.
4 Collaboration with NCAPs in the world is
increasingly important.
5 NCAP could raise the safety consciousness of
car user all over the world in the future.
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