The National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) is a successful collaborative effort among the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and The George Washington University (GWU). Chartered in 1992 at GW's School of Engineering and Applied Science, the NCAC primarily supports the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) strategic goal to reduce fatalities and injuries on the Nation's roadways, but has served to enhance efforts to improve safety worldwide. The missions of the NCAC include:
improving safety by expanding researchers' knowledge about crashes,
developing and sharing the detailed vehicle and hardware models, and
leading efforts to apply computer simulation tools to enable researchers to study the complex interactions associated with crashes.
