Tomas Svensson Vice President of FEHRL

VTI’s Director General Tomas Svensson has been appointed Vice President of FEHRL, Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories. This happened in connection with the election of its new board, which took office at the turn of the year for a four-year term.

FEHRL is a collaborative organization for national research organizations that conduct research on roads and road technology in Europe and the associated member countries USA, Australia and Israel. FEHRL’s primary objective is to promote collaboration on road engineering research.

“It will be very exciting for me and will provide an opportunity to be able to put more energy into one of our important European cooperation organizations. VTI has cooperated with FEHRL for a very long time, and 2023, VTI road engineering research will celebrate 100 years and a new national road engineering centre is being formed. All in all, this will be good for VTI and the entire transport sector,” says Tomas Svensson.

All will be new to the board, with the exception of the former president. In addition to Tomas Svensson, more VTI employees are involved in the organization FEHRL. Department Director Anita Ihs is a member of its Executive Committee, and Research Heads Björn Kalman and Ellen Grumert participate as research coordinators.

Participation is also a way for VTI to share the research institute’s knowledge internationally and to learn more about the research others are doing. What is special about FEHRL is that there are also links to the US and Australia where research engineer Thomas Lundberg is involved in a research project. There are good prospects for many more collaborations with FEHRL’s member countries, says Tomas Svensson.

Text: Gunilla Rech

Translated by: CBG Konsult & Information AB