Glossary of Terms Technologies That Aid Transportation

Glossary of Terms	Definitions	Examples
Booster Seat	An extra seat or cushion placed on an existing seat for a small child to sit on.	Seats designed specifically to protect children from injury or death during collisions. Automobile manufacturers may integrate child safety seats directly into their vehicle's design.
Child Vehicle Restraint System	Devices used to protect and restrain infant and child automotive passengers.	A device, such as a seat belt or small car seat with a seat belt, used to control and protect a child in a motor vehicle.
Crashworthiness	It is the ability of a structure to protect its occupants during an impact. This is commonly tested when investigating the safety of aircraft and vehicles.	An assessed retrospectively by analyzing injury risk in real-world crashes, often using regression or other statistical techniques to control for the myriad of confounders that are present in crashes.
Driving Evaluation	It can identify specific changes you need to make to improve your driving safety.	A test for your vision, cognition, and motor functions.
Forward-Facing Child Seat	The seat must be designed for use forward-facing and must actually face the front of the vehicle.	Forward-facing child seats provide impact protection, and an integral five point (or three point) harness or an impact shield to hold the child in place.
Large Accessible Transit Vehicles	Large accessible vehicles can accommodate more than one wheelchair. That’s especially appreciated by groups of seniors in wheelchairs who would like to travel together. The large accessible vehicle is cheaper than minivans because more people can be accommodated in one vehicle, allowing the cost per person to be reduced.	Generally considered safe, may not be as safe for wheelchair-seated passengers. Transit provider practices vary regarding use of wheelchair tie down and occupant restraint systems (WTORSs), while recent research suggests high levels of WTORS disuse and misuse.
Original Equipment Manufacturer	Is a term used when one company makes a part or subsystem that is used in another company's end product. The term is used in several ways, each of which is clear within a context.	The term sometimes refers to a part or subassembly maker, sometimes to a final assembly maker, and sometimes to a mental category comprising those two in contrast to all other third party makers of parts or subassemblies from the aftermarket
Primary Driving Controls	Provides a complete adaptation service where we can come to you and fit much of our product range, or alternatively, you could come to us and we can fit systems while you wait. We have a comfortable accessible waiting area while we work on your car.	It allow disabled drivers to easily control the main driving functions of any vehicle; steering, braking & acceleration.
Rear-Facing Infant Seat	Rear-facing is safest for both adults and children, but especially for babies, who would face a greater risk of spinal cord injury in a front-facing car seat during a frontal crash.	Rear-facing car seats spread frontal crash forces over the whole area of a child's back, head and neck; they also prevent the head from snapping relative to the body in a frontal crash.
Secondary Driving Controls	Secondary driving controls are designed to operate vehicle functions other than gas, brakes, and steering.	Secondary flight controls include control of flap and slat systems, independent control and monitor architectures and highly integrated electronic control schemes.
Universal Docking Interface Geometry	A Universal Docking Interface Geometry (UDIG) has been under development to enable independent wheelchair securement (docking) for all WMD users traveling in motor vehicles.	wheelchair mechanism
Vehicle Seat Belt Assembly	A device or assembly suitably fastened to the motor vehicle composed of straps, webbing or similar material that restrains the movement of a person in order to prevent or mitigate injury to the person and includes a pelvic restraint, an upper torso restraint or both of them.	A strap on a vehicle's seat that holds a person in the seat if there is an accident
Wheelchair Tie-Down and Occupant Restraint System	The tie-down apparatus comprises three elongated coffers arranged to define a wheelchair bay, each of these coffers having hinged lids which open to expose an extendable, length-adjustable, flexible strap which is connected to a structural member of the wheelchair and then all three straps are cinched down through use of the length adjustment mechanism.	Wheelchair tie down system Wheelchair restraint system is for the disabled.
Wheelchair Tie-Down System	A wheelchair tie down system is designed to be used with L Track hardware on buses, vans, and transport vehicles.	A wheelchair tie-down apparatus is provided for use on buses, vans, and other vehicles with emphasis in the public transportation area.