TSAM-TRUCK DRIVER SEATING ACCOMODATIONS MODEL. IN: HUMAN FACTORS IN DRIVING, SEATING, AND VISION

Since driver positioning and seating accommodations tools were first developed in the 1960s, passenger car and heavy duty truck workspace tools have become important vehicle engineering processes. Passenger-car driver selected seat position research also has continued as an ongoing project in automotive engineering. However, driver-positioning studies for heavy-duty trucks have not received equal attention. The meta-analysis in this paper combines both passenger car and truck workspace tools as considerations for a heavy-duty truck driver selected seat position model. Discussion of occupant packaging applications during vehicle development focuses on experimental design and multi-dimensional packaging. In the meta-analysis, modeling assumptions determined the form of the proposed model because the truck driver seating accommodations model fit the composite-population method.