It is important to maintain a known quality in the test data. For many years, VTI has tested and made comparative measurements of profilometers that are used when making road condition inventories and for functionality tests of surface designs.
VTI has carried out assignments as a part of international projects, for the Swedish and Finnish Transport Administrations, the German Federal Highway Research Institute (Bast) as well as users and manufacturers of measuring equipment.VTI is in possession of a number of pieces of equipment that can be used as reference, and well thought out methods have been prepared for how these tests should be done.
Better accessibility and shorter response times for emergency vehicles – this is something that standardised, directed, traffic messages, transmitted over the 5G network can contribute. Within the EU project Nordic Way 2, a functioning prototype of such a...
Shifting freight transports from road to rail and water can contribute to achieving the Swedish environmental and climate objectives by 2030. How this could be done is something that VTI researchers and researchers from Gothenburg University are investigating...
Since 2013, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) has had several government commissions to produce documentation on the costs to society caused by traffic. On 1 November 2018, the agency reported its latest commission, Samkost 3....
VTI participates in several international standardisation committees. The work is important because it helps to ensure that standards can be adapted to Swedish conditions and it also provides access to valuable contacts and networks.
Through the CTS cooperation, VTI is gaining valuable research contacts with China. The country is facing major challenges in the field of road safety but also has enormous potential.
Systems with electrified roads are a relatively new concept and many projects have been launched in recent years. To stimulate the transfer of knowledge and collaboration, the Research and Innovation Platform for Electric Roads arranged its second...