Transportation

Expert analysis of vehicle-related incidents across commercial, passenger, government, military, and specialty transportation sectors.

Understanding Transportation Incidents

Transportation-related incidents often involve multiple contributing factors—vehicle dynamics, roadway conditions, human performance, and mechanical systems. Determining what occurred, why it happened, and how forces acted on the human body requires a multidisciplinary approach grounded in science and engineering. Biodynamic Research Corporation provides independent, evidence-based analysis for a wide range of transportation-related cases, supporting attorneys, insurers, and organizations with clear, defensible conclusions.

Areas of Transportation Expertise

Automotive

Analysis of passenger vehicle crashes, including impact dynamics, occupant motion, and injury mechanisms.

Commercial Transportation

Analysis of commercial vehicle crashes, including impact dynamics, occupant motion and injury mechanisms involving tractor-trailers, buses, trains, and light rail.

Aerospace

Crash investigation, injury causation and assessment of pain and suffering. Aerospace medicine analysis of sustained and impact acceleration, spatial disorientation, medication effects, compliance with FAA medical standards, and human factors.

Recreational Products

Assessment of recreational products such as watercraft, ATVs, motorcycles, helmets, amusement park rides, etc.

Restraint Systems and Helmets

Analysis of passenger vehicle crashes, including impact dynamics, occupant motion, and injury mechanisms.

Additional Areas

BRC’s noted expertise in injury events has been sought for legal disputes, criminal investigations, product development, and other matters.

A Methodical, Data-Driven Approach

Our experts apply established engineering and medical principles to evaluate transportation-related incidents. Each analysis is grounded in measurable data, peer-reviewed research, and real-world testing.

Key Capabilities:

Vehicle and scene inspection, 3D scanning, and
data download
Accident reconstruction and scene analysis
Vehicle dynamics and occupant kinematics
Biomechanics and injury causation analysis
Simulation

Clear, defensible expert reporting

Representative Case Applications

Passenger vehicle and commercial truck crashes
Automobile-pedestrian/cyclist impact analysis
Rollover and loss of control events
Commercial, private, and military aviation mishaps
Spacecraft mishaps
Commercial transportation and fleet incidents
Complex, multivehicle crash scenarios
ATV/golf cart rollover and crash events
Motorcycle/bicycle crash events
Watercraft crashes and propeller impacts
Amusement ride acceleration events
Non-use of restraints and helmet injury mitigation issues

Our team includes physicians and engineers with decades of combined experience and courtroom expertise.

BRC data driven explanations of a crash test

Accident Reconstruction

EDR (Event Data Recorder) downloads
Site and vehicle inspections
UAV drone photography by FAA-certified drone operators
3D mapping and scanning
Impact analysis

Expert Spotlight

Jeff Anderson, MS, PE

Accident Reconstruction

Jeff is an ACTAR certified professional engineer specializing in accident reconstruction and crash analysis. Jeff has worked in this field for over 20 years, has experience as a testifying expert, and has reconstructed hundreds of crashes involving a wide variety of accident types and a full range of vehicles including passenger cars, SUV’s, pickup trucks, class 8 trucks, dump trucks, water trucks, side-by-side UTV’s, and golf carts.

Certifications and Licenses