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2021-11-08

Research on rail transport at VTI
VTI strives to increase research in the field of rail transport, and currently it has about twenty people working in this area. Together they represent a broad...
2021-11-04

A new assignment for VTI: analyse test methods for medical vision requirements for driving licences
VTI will investigate the conditions for developing and validating driving ability tests for people with visual field loss.
2021-11-03

The future: Three trends dominate VTI’s research
In the next few decades, much of VTI’s research will revolve around three major trends in the technological development of the transport system: electrification...
2021-11-02

Crash safety – one of VTI’s specialties
The VTI crash safety laboratory is one of few independent labs of its kind in Sweden. The laboratory is the only one in Sweden accredited to perform crash testi...
2021-11-01

50 years of VTI
On 1 July 2021, VTI celebrated 50 years as a public authority. It was in May 1971 that the Swedish Parliament decided to establish a new institute by merging th...
2021-10-27

VTI receives a special assignment aimed at accelerating efforts to electrify the Swedish transport sector
At a press conference held at the Ministry of Infrastructure on Thursday 26 August, it was announced that the Swedish Government has given VTI a special assignm...
2021-10-26

Full speed ahead for maritime research
A couple of years ago, VTI decided to increase its maritime research, and today about ten people at the institute work with related research in areas such as tr...
2021-10-26

A venerable laboratory central to the development of research models
The oldest is the test road machine, which was built during World War II. It was initially used to find better solutions for gravel road constructions. Then cam...
2021-10-15

VTI is at the forefront of international collaborations
International collaboration is essential to VTI’s position at the cutting edge of research, says Director-General Tomas Svensson.
2021-08-31

VTI simulator included in a study on how drivers are affected by carbon dioxide
Moderately-high levels of carbon dioxide, which can often occur in vehicles, can adversely affect people. What effects different carbon dioxide levels can have...