RS5C conference in South Korea May 2018
In May 16-18, 2018 the RS5C conference will take place on Jeju Island, South Korea. We look forward to your participation!
Simulation and visualization
We are world leading in simulator experiments and simulator technology. Our driving simulators are an important resource in improving infrastructure, traffic and transports.
Crash safety testing
The VTI crash test laboratory os one of few independent crash safety laboratories in Sweden. It has both an indoor and outdoor track. The outdoor track enables construction of large traffic environments to perform testing.
To prevent road crashes it is important to understand driver related contributing factors, which have been suggested to be the critical reason in 94 per cent of crashes. The overall aim of the project Vehicle Driver Monitoring has been to advance the...
Tomas Svensson was today appointed Director-General of VTI. Tomas has been acting Director-General since January 2017.
For the first time single bicycle crashes have been simulated at the VTI crash safety laboratory.
A VTI-study presents a social perspective on new vehicle technology. It explores the self-reported preparedness of the fire departments (i.e., rescue services) in Sweden’s three largest cities regarding rescue operations involving electrical vehicles (EVs).
Under what circumstances might cyclists lose tyre grip? What actions could then be taken to prevent a crash? VTI is currently developing a theoretical model of the behaviour of bicycle tyres during braking and steering in different situations and on different...
If more people are to choose sustainable travel, then the public transport stations of the future must be designed so that pedestrians can get where they are going quickly, without congestion or queues. The Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)...