Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Missed prevention: global gaps in seat belt policy, monitoring, and road traffic mortality

Objective Seat belts are among the most effective interventions for reducing vehicle occupant fatalities, yet their global life-saving potential depends on their availability and use. This study documents and quantifies global gaps in seat belt governance and estimates the burden...

Mission‐Led and Place‐Based Policy Outcomes in European Regions

Abstract European industrial policy relies on two major programmes operating under different logics: the place‐based Cohesion Policy, which directs investment towards less developed regions to reduce territorial disparities, and the mission‐led Horizon 2020, which allocates fundi...

Child occupant protection in buses and coaches: A parametric study of restraint systems in frontal crashes

Objective The newly approved UN Regulation No. 170 addresses the proper protection of children in buses and coaches. This study aims to evaluate the head kinematics and spinal loads of 3- and 6-year-old child human body models with and without a child restraint system (CRS) in bu...