WELCOME TO SAFER VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC SAFETY CENTRE AT CHALMERS
We research to save lives, prevent injuries and enable safe mobility. Together.
"Zero injuries in road traffic" – that's our drive and overall goal. We are the open innovation arena where researchers and experts work together to create safe mobility. Our traffic safety approach covers people, vehicles and the infrastructure – and together we contribute to safer road transports and smarter, more sustainable cities. Join us!
NEWS & EVENTS
Collaborative traffic safety research for zero fatalities
THE SAFER RESEARCH AREAS
Collaborative traffic safety research for zero fatalities
Our five research areas represent world-class, multi-disciplinary research – all with the single-minded vision to save lives, prevent injuries and enable safe mobility. They are also the open research arena where our partners meet and identify key issues to initiate new research based on real-world needs.
SYSTEMS FOR ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND AD
SYSTEMS FOR ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND AD
How can active systems and automation predict and prevent collisions? This research area covers the development of automated functions that help the driver to avoid hazardous situations
Read moreROAD USER BEHAVIOUR
ROAD USER BEHAVIOUR
How do people behave in traffic and how can we support them to act safer? Taking a deep approach in human behaviour, this research area is about develop scientific methods and tools to create prerequisites for safe driving.
More about road user behaviourHUMAN BODY PROTECTION
HUMAN BODY PROTECTION
How do we best protect people in a crash? SAFER continuously develops this research area with the aim to understand and develop principles for countermeasures to prevent injuries in accidents.
More about human body protectionSAFETY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
SAFETY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
How do we develop the best methods for predicting and assessing real-world vehicle and traffic safety? In this research area, our main priority is to provide trust in new safety systems to enable market introduction.
Read more about safteyPost-crash
Post-crash
What actions after a traffic accident are the most efficient in reducing mortality and injury severity? This research area addresses challenges for all road users related to what happens after a traffic accident is a fact. Covering a cross-disciplinary research approach, Care & Rescue focuses on improved incident detection and assessment, improved on-scene care and rescue and reducing secondary long-term effects of traffic accidents.
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THE SAFER COMPETENCE NETWORKS
Cutting edge traffic safety knowledge without limits
Automotive safety assurance
Automotive safety assurance
Focus will preliminary be around how to design L3-L4 automated vehicles such that the accident risk is tolerable, and how to prove that the risk is tolerable with sufficient confidence, and how to design with explainability at all times.
System safety I
System safety I
For the Safety System network, we would like to broaden the view and learn from systems outside the automotive industry. Robotics, Health care and Medical Technology can be areas with which this type of thinking can be shared and new knowledge can be created. We also have the ambition to meet physically, since it is difficult to grow and maintain connections in a network only on distance.
Safety for alternative powertrains
Safety for alternative powertrains
In this network, we gather relevant societal actors and SAFER partners to discuss various safety aspects linked to alternative powertrains, such as electric vehicles.
System Safety II
System Safety II
For the Safety System network, we would like to broaden the view and learn from systems outside the automotive industry. Robotics, Health care and Medical Technology can be areas with which this type of thinking can be shared and new knowledge can be created. We also have the ambition to meet physically, since it is difficult to grow and maintain connections in a network only on distance.
Human behaviour
Human behaviour
By applying an interdisciplinary approach, the scope of this competence network is to understand human behaviour in traffic and develop scientific methods and tools to create prerequisites for safe driving. It is also about the interplay between humans and technical systems in different contexts; how technical systems should be designed to achieve efficient and safe interaction with the users.
Perception, Sensing & Communication
Perception, Sensing & Communication
Perception, sensing and communication enable technologies for a plethora of safety systems. The scope of this group is to create and share research ideas around vehicular communications, sensors systems, and signal processing.
Structures & Materials
Structures & Materials
The purpose of this competence area is to gather researchers concerned with vehicle architectures and lightweight materials suitable for future efficient vehicles with new powertrains.
Future proof methodologies for validation of CAVS
Future proof methodologies for validation of CAVS
The group discuss validation of automated and connected vehicles. including e.g. relevant test cases, virtual methods and their connection to physical tests, the role of Operational Design Domains (ODD) and relevant connectivity scenarios.
Vehicle Dynamics
Vehicle Dynamics
Vehicle dynamics is creating a collaborative arena connecting vehicle dynamics research carried out in academia/institutes and the corresponding advanced engineering activities in the automotive industry.
Be a SAFER partner
Safe mobility can only be realized when talented and dedicated people work together with a clear vision, shoulder by shoulder. As a SAFER partner, you play an important role in the creation of sustainable transport systems with close to zero accidents.
THE SAFER PARTNERS
