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SAFER has been granted research funding for a major investment in developing its large databases with driving data from traffic environments and various driving cases from around the world. The project aims to accelerate the development of automated vehicles and ensure that these are safe once they reach the market. The development will be conducted with the help of machine

Rumble stripes and bumps are popular with lawmakers and despised by cyclists. MeBeSafe has found that solely visual nudges have much better effects on speed and spouts a universal approval by cyclists.

In February next year, the world's leaders will gather to discuss how traffic fatalities - one of the planet's health epidemics – can be decreased.

The International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI2020) is the premiere international event on this topic, attracting delegates from more than 20 countries. It is designed to bring participants – from academia, industry and government – up-to-date on current and recent developments and trends in the field of inattention and distraction in driving.

SAFER is today, together with 35 partners, entering into a new cooperation agreement which aims to research and disseminate knowledge about traffic safety through multidisciplinary collaboration. The agreement covers a time period of 5 years. SAFER is a well-established research centre in the area of vehicle and traffic safety, based at Lindholmen in Gothenburg. The centre has conducted research since

SAFER's latest period of collaborative research in vehicle and traffic safety is now published in a report. 38 parties have been active in the multidisciplinary research platform and contributed to new findings and knowledge in the area. The research extends over the period from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019. The full report is available on the link below

Automated vehicles are predicted to provide both safer and more sustainable transport on European roads. The HEADSTART research project will develop test methods to show that the functions used in automated driving are sufficiently safe. Safety is a fundamental requirement for automated driving and research is needed to solve complex issues. Project HEADSTART (Harmonized European Solutions for Testing Automated Road

On April 1, a new phase of joint road safety research at SAFER Vehicle and Traffic safety centre was initiated. Three new partners; BETA CAE Nordic AB, CEVT and NTF West have joined the collaboration platform and two of the existing partners; The University of Skövde and MediaMobile/V-Traffic have stepped up a level from associate members to full-fledged research partners.

SAFER' Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers has been commissioned by the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation to carry out a survey of possible deficiencies in how well today’s crash test dummies represent the population as a whole.

Making a truck completely self-driving is not easy. But SAFER's researchers are working hard to make this possible by gathering data to better understand and “train” the automated systems of the future to drive safely. The purpose is to reduce traffic accidents, save lives while also operating vehicles more sustainably.

Welcome six new partners and memeber to the SAFER research environment!

The automated vehicle of the future enables both drivers and passengers to be seated in completely different positions than they do today. This means that the vehicle’s protection system needs to be redesigned to protect the occupants in a possible crash. SAFER Traffic Safety Centre has for many years been working on developing humanlike simulation models to optimize vehicle protection

SAFER has a new project in its portfolio Systems for accident prevention; Auto pilot site to plant. The purpose of the project is to build a safe and efficient fully automated transport system that is capable of operating in narrow spaces, such as a mine, and on public roads. The material from the mine will thus be able to be

SAFER has received another new member of the network, Svanberg & Svanberg, a micro-SME with expertise in IT, data handling and analysis, mainly within the automotive industry and traffic safety research.

The annual traffic safety conference in Tylösand, Sweden, September 4-5 is an important part of Sweden's successful traffic safety work. This year, SAFER Vehicle and Traffic safety Centre has several presentations in the program where recent research and knowledge are shared with the traffic safety community on site at the event.

SAFER researchers now have access to the powerful PR tool Mynewsdesk to spread interesting news and research results

In November, an opening of an international centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data & Factory Arena, is being planned at Lindholmen in Gothenburg. The aim of the center is to get Sweden up to the global stage in research within AI. SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre, with its over ten years of knowledge building on the collection, analysis and management

Today, the norm for standard crash tests with cars is crash test dummies based on men’s size and attributes. But there are as many women who drive a car nowdays. And females are at a much higher risk to be hurt in collisions between vehicles.

SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Center has been granted funds from Vinnova for a new important project - Drive Sweden Test Site Automated Highway III. It is the third project in a line of projects aiming at creating test beds for the development, evaluation and demonstration of autonomous and digitized transports, focusing on rural roads and highways. The project will

One of the main problems when developing autonomous vehicles is the availability of real-life driving data and testing of the new functions. Therefore, in SAFER's new project "Realsim for AD", tools for simulation will be developed. The challenge is to make simulation tools look similar to the reality, and here are SAFER databases, which contain more than 5 million kilometers of data, an important asset.

SAFER continues to expand its project portfolio with research for safer transports through automation. In this project, iDolly, researchers from Chalmers and Volvo, in collaboration with several other companies, will develop technologies for transporting containers on public roads, completely autonomous, without drivers.

On April 11 and 12, Gothenburg hosted a visit with delegates from the Chinese Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM). The reason was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, a so-called MoU, between STCSM and Business Region Gothenburg. The MoU will open up new possibilites for live saving traffic safety research. The program included visits to SAFER

SAFER's annual report for the twelfth operational year has now been launched. The report is a summary of the activities and research carried out within the research center between April 1, 2017 and March 31, 2018.

Recently, the first dig in the ground was taken for a new road stretch at AstaZero - one of the world's most advanced proving grounds for testing of active safety systems. The goal is to offer more opportunities for testing of self-driving vehicles and other future safety systems that can help avoid accidents during driving in lanes with markings, such

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 to Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago, IL, USA "for his contributions to behavioural economics". And the same theory – nudging – is now being tested at SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre to find out if road safety can be improved.

The first two families, the Hains and the Simonovskis, have now received their Drive Me cars. The families will test its cars on the public roads of Gothenburg and support the research project with driving data and information about their everyday use and interaction with the cars.

The road safety situation in Africa is gloomy and in order to improve this, SAFER is involved in SaferAfrica, a project within EC Horizon 2020. Africa is the continent in the world with the highest mortality in traffic, and the trend points to further deteriorations over the next fifteen-year period. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic fatalities

The EU-financed Horizon 2020 SAFER project MeBeSafe (Measures for Behaving Safely in Traffic) aims at reducing the number and severity of road accidents by directly changing our habitual traffic behaviour. Various nudging and coaching measures will be used to get tired drivers to take a break and cyclists to reduce their speed in intersections, for example. For most of us

The new SAFER project, LP3Pilot, starting September 1, has the overall objective to test the viability of automated driving as a safe and efficient means of transportation. The functionality of the systems used is exposed to variable conditions in 11 European countries, 100 vehicles and 1000 test drivers. The project focuses on large-scale piloting of SAE level 3 functions, with

This question has been applied in a SAFER-related project that explored four specific urban challenges through co-creation methods in workshops. The road map of conceptual ideas generated in the workshop was impressive, e.g. the H 2 H concept, electric intelligent low speed pods for on-demand waste collection, making use of waterways surrounding the area and the T2NETBOX, a solar powered

Europe’s automotive industry has joined forces with research institutions and other stakeholders to test and evaluate automated in-vehicle technologies in real traffic in eleven European countries, including cross-border driving. L3Pilot, a four-year project, kicks off today in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Every day many trucks drive with containers between Gothenburg harbour and Viared industrial area, outside Borås, Sweden. Making these transports more efficient would mean increased profitability for the transport companies, but also for the society due to reduced environmental impact and improved safety. This is the background to a new major research project within SAFER, AutoFreight. The overall objective with

VTI har i samarbete med trafiksäkerhetscentrumet SAFER fått förtroendet att arrangera den sjunde upplagan av världens största internationella konferens inom trafikpsykologi, ICTTP7. Konferensen anordnas på Lindholmen, Göteborg i augusti 2020. I hård konkurrens med flera andra intressenter i olika länder vann VTI nyligen uppdraget att arrangera ICTTP7, Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology. Konferensen förväntas locka hit mellan 350 och