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CTS - The China Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety -, with the Swedish partners Chalmers, Volvo Cars, Volvo, VTI and Autoliv Development and Chinese partners Tongji University, Tsinghua University and RIOH Institute for Highway Safety has grown with yet another partner – Geely Automotive Research.

The Research Centre focuses on a number of areas, such as improving traffic safety in Sweden and China and promoting the exchange of technology and knowledge between both countries. The Centre is also focusing on supporting government decision-making in matters of traffic safety and establishing a platform for research into traffic safety. SAFER constitutes the Swedish research platform in this collaboration. Joint projects are ongoing as well as other activities to enhance safety in China.

First industry partner in China
Geely is a leading automobile manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China and was founded in 1997. The company employs more than 50,000 people, operates 12 vehicle manufacturing plants, 9 powertrain plants, 6 knockdown kit plants, and manufactures vehicles under the Geely Auto brand.
“It is gratifying that our cooperation platform is growing and that we now have the first industrial partner based in China in place in this collaboration platform. This increases our ability to generate research that provides even greater added value and that the knowledge we create will be implemented in more products”, Magnus Granström, SAFER’s director, says.

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