The Transportation of Dangerous Goods Directorate has published the updated Transport Canada Standard TP 14877, Containers for Transport of Dangerous Goods by Rail, January 2018.

6. DATA RECORDING AND ANALYSIS

6.1. Data Recording Equipment
Each test was recorded and the data were analyzed using the following equipment:

5. TEST METHODOLOGY

Tests were performed with three state-of-the-art fully instrumented dummies. Two dummies were selected to represent preschool-aged children, while one represented a small school-aged child. These dummies and the size of children they represent are presented below.

The head and chest accelerations of the dummies were measured for each test. Because injury reference levels have not been adopted for children,¹⁹ the upper and lower neck forces and moments and shoulder loads were not analyzed.

This document does not change, create, amend or suggest deviations to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDG Regulations).

RDIMS #11736831
June 2016

This bulletin explains the requirements for the classification of ethanol and gasoline mixtures, as well as emergency response measures in the case of an incident. It does not change, create, amend or suggest deviations to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDG Regulations). For specific details, consult Part 2 of the TDG Regulations.

2. STUDY OBJECTIVE

The objective of the study was to investigate the relative safety offered to children of different ages by compartmentalization and by child restraints in the context of travelling in school buses. Testing on an acceleration sled using dummies representing children of different ages, mass and heights was performed in order to achieve this.

3. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

This study has demonstrated that:

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1. BACKGROUND

Historically, school buses have been used to transport school-aged children to and from school or other activities. Transport Canada has conducted several studies and investigations that determined that school buses are the safest means of road transportation for school-aged children. ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8}