Describing the Truck Driver Stomach and Shin-Knee Accommodation Tools
871532
08/01/1987
- Event
- Content
- Truck driver shin-knee and stomach postion tools have been developed to describe where certain percentages of truck drivers position there knees and stomachs in various workspace arrangements. Separate equations describe the accommodation level for driver populations with male to female ratios of 50/50, 75/25, and a range from 90/10 to 95/5. These equations can be used as a design tool to locate the curves in vehicle space to describe the region behind which the given populations shin-knees, and stomachs would be located. Equations and curves are provided for both the left leg, which operates the clutch, and the right leg, which operates the accelerator.
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- 8
- Citation
- Stanick, J., Philippart, N., and Kuechenmeister, T., "Describing the Truck Driver Stomach and Shin-Knee Accommodation Tools," SAE Technical Paper 871532, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/871532.