The Government has resolved on a new board for VTI for the period 1 January 2008 to 31 May 2009.
The new chairman of the board will be Anna Grönlund Krantz. Anna Grönlund Krantz is an economist by profession and is on the board of LFV and The Bothnia Line. At present she is working as a communications consultant.

Members of the new board
Anna Grönlund Krantz (chairman)
Jonas Bjelfvenstam, VTI
Björn Sundell, The National Veterinary Institute
Charlotte Wäreborn Schultz, The Swedish Public Transport Association
Sönneve Ölnes, Transport economic institute, Norway
Thomas Korsfeldt, Swedish Energy Agency
Britt Marie Bertilsson, The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research
Lise Langseth, The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning

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2017-08-17 | Report

Mobilitet och transportlösningar på landsbygd: en internationell litteraturstudie

 On behalf of the Swedish government, VTI has the commission to implement a study on effective and innovative solutions that can enhance people’s willingness and ability to use public transportation in rural areas. This literature review is part of...
2017-08-16 | Report

Barrier separated road type design: accelerated degradation

 To reduce the risk of vehicular head-on collisions, the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket), has been transforming high traffic-volume conventional roads into barrier separated roads. This process has reduced the number of fatalities by...
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One for all, or all for oneself?: Governance cultures in regional public transport...

 Due to the fragmented organizational landscape characterizing public transport, it is important to study and explore how regional governance of public transport adapts to national institutional reforms. By employing the term ‘governance cultures’ to...
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2017-07-05

Vehicle Driver Monitoring: sleepiness and cognitive load

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...

2017-06-29

Tomas Svensson new director-general

Tomas Svensson was today appointed Director-General of VTI. Tomas has been acting Director-General since January 2017. 

2017-05-30

Crash testing bicycles at VTI

For the first time single bicycle crashes have been simulated at the VTI crash safety laboratory.

2017-05-15

A case study exploring firefighters’ and municipal officials’ preparedness for electrical vehicles

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).

2017-05-02

Pioneering research on and about bicycles at VTI

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...

2017-05-02

Virtual pedestrians create efficient stations

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)...

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