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Geely new part of SAFER's Chinese cooperation CTS - for increased road safety

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.

SAFER disseminates knowledge at the annual Traffic Safety Conference in Tylösand, Sweden

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.

Welcome back to work. Or to school. Or just to more live saving research.

Welcome back to yet another term with SAFER and creation of live saving traffic safety research!

Detailed program for the DDI2018 conference is set

Welcome to the 6th Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention 2018!

Automation and 5G is being tested at AstaZero

In this experiment the cars cross the intersection 'tight' without colliding with high safety margins, even with much higher safety than in conventional traffic. As the cars approach the intersection, they become aware of each other, even though they are not in direct contact either through visibility, sensors or wifi networks. Instead, the 5G network, which is used at AstaZero

July's Newsletter is published!

Happy readling!

SAFER has been granted EU funding for two new major projects

Two new important research projects have been granted under the Horizon 2020 framework program; ARCADE and HEADSTART. Both projects strengthen SAFER's automotive driving project portfolio and are important for the continued work of contributing to a safe and sustainable transport system where automated vehicles play a key role.

Summer greetings from SAFER!

During the spring, much has happened to SAFER, we thank everyone who contributed with their knowledge and research to creating a leading platform for life-saving traffic safety research. SAFER's director Magnus Granström sends a warm greeting to you all from a windy, but beautiful, summer in Gothenburg!

Svanberg & Svanberg - new member of SAFER that contributes with expertise in naturalistic driving data

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.

Sustainable transports discussed in Almedalen - SAFER's infrastructure Revere participates with expertise about automated vehicles

In the future, a higher proportion of the vehicles will be automated. But don’t we get more vehicles on the roads when the car can be used as an office? What do we know about the best fuel for different needs? How can a new, different transport system look like? What needs to be done, and by whom? Chalmers organizes

The next stage of SAFER is being developed

The current stage will end March 31, 2019, and the SAFER Board has been asked to draw up a proposal for the design of a subsequent stage. At the Shareholders’ meeting in April, partners expressed a strong wish to continue the successful collaborative research through the SAFER platform. Malin Levin, responsible for SAFER’s partnerships tells more: “Of course, we want

Horizon 2020: Chalmers takes the lead in transport

The annual report of Sweden's participation in Horizon 2020 2017 states that Sweden is among the 10 most successful countries in the programme, and names Chalmers, SAFER's host, as the leading Swedish player in the field of transport.

Proceedings from the HUMANIST conference

SAFER participated at this years HUMANIST conference in Hague June 13-14, which was well-attended and informative.

Podcast shows the way to zero

Last year, 253 people died in traffic in Sweden. It is the lowest figure in modern times. But it is far left to the zero vision goal of no more than 220 dead. In a new podcast, you can hear eight votes on how to reach the goal. The podcast is in Swedish.

Automated vehicles in Sweden are demonstrated to EU transport ministries in Gothenburg

On June 19, Sweden and Infrastructure Minister Tomas Eneroth will host a meeting about connected and automated vehicles in Gothenburg. The meeting is the third high level meeting for the follow-up of the so-called Amsterdam Declaration and an opportunity to visualize Swedish successful work in the field of connected and automated driving. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss

Revere - SAFER infrastructure for traffic safety - shows its automated driving research on the Volvo Ocean Race

When the Volvo Ocean Race arrives in Gothenburg June 14, SAFER and Chalmers is in place at the event area to give the public the chance to get close to pioneering research.

The self-driving vehicles of the future require new protection systems

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

New project working process at SAFER

A new way of working for the projects The SAFER project portfolio has recently been launched. The aim is to simplify work, reduce administration and increase dissemination of results. Link to the new project working process below (for SAFER reseachers only).

New associate professor installed; Marco Dozza

Today is SAFER's senior safety researcher Marco Dozza being installed as an associate professor, congratulations!

June's Newsletter

Welcome to read our latest Newsletter! https://mailchi.mp/chalmers.se/b394u0zr19-2691705

Entrepreneurs with an idea originated from SAFER won the regional Venture Cup 2018

Venture Cup has been organized since 1998 with, among others, McKinsey, Chalmers and Gothenburg University as founders. Now this year's regional prize winners have been appointed and one of the winners was Detecht, who has developed a smart app to help motorcycle drivers after an accident - an invention that can save lives. The invention Jalp!, developed to save lives

Collaboration environment for Artificial intelligence is established at Lindholmen - positive synergies for SAFER are expected

An international leading artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration - Data Factory & Arena - will be established in Gothenburg at Lindholmen Science Park, in close proximity to SAFER's operations. Artificial intelligence can contribute to a more sustainable and safer transport system. In order to contribute to the development and the opportunity to accelerate the application of AI, Sweden now creates an

New SAFER associated project: HARMONISE - Safe interaction with different levels of automation

The HARMONISE project addresses the challenges that emerge due to the incremental increase of automated driver support systems that gradually change the role of the driver over time.

OSCCAR – SAFER’s latest associated project

In Horizon 2020, a new project, OSCCAR, will begin in June – Future Occupant Safety for crashes in cars.

Newsletter for May is out!

SAFER's newsletter for May is published!

The two gold sponsors confirmed to DDI2018

We proudly presents the two gold-sponsors to the upcoming International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention; AstaZero and SmartEye. Smart Eye is a global, but locally anchored, supplier of eye-tracking systems to the automotive industry for development of active safety systems. AstaZero is the world’s first full-scale test environment for future road safety and automated driving. At this unique facility

SAFER expands with 6 new partners and members

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

Håkan Frisinger Scholarship to Jonas SJöberg

Congratulations to Jonas, an important SAFER associated researcher with impressive knowledge in automated driving, to the Håkan Frisinger Scholarship.

Linda - our new PhD-student in L3Pilot

Welcome our new PhD student Linda Pipkorn!

SAFER Research Day 2018 - presentations

The presentations from the Research area day April 19 is now available.

Vision Zero and the Result conference 2017 - The goal is within reach, but we must make every effort we possibly can

A status report regarding the 2020 targets was given by the Swedish Transport Adminstration today.

SAFER’ Research area director Lotta Jakobsson awards the Golden Diesel Ring 2018

The Association of Motor Journalists (VdM) in Germany honors Professor Dr. Ing. Lotta Jakobsson with the prestigious Golden Diesel Ring for her extraordinary commitment to child safety in the car and vehicle safety research.

SAFER Annual Report - summarizes this year's life-saving vehicle and traffic safety research

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.

The Strategic Research Agenda for FP9 is now set

The Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is the key document to prepare the next European Research Framework Programme, FP9.

SAFER’s Shareholders gathered at the annual meeting

On April 19th, it was time for the annual Shareholders’ meeting at SAFER. In principle, all members and partners were gathered to share the annual report and a presentation of the most important research achievements during the year. Two new partners were also approved at the meeting. Scania and Veoneer; welcome to the community! The meeting was also informed of

Important MoU in place - SAFER meets the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality

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

Sweden is hosting the UN Conference on Road Safety 2020

The UN General Assembly in New York has recently confirmed that Sweden will host the third global high-level conference on road safety in 2020.

Data management in L3Pilot now in place – SAFER hosts the dialogue

For 2 days, the L3Pilot partners have been on SAFER to discuss data management tools. L3Pilot is a common European venture to evaluate the potential of 23 different features of self-driving cars, as well as investigating the drivers’, and drivers in surrounding vehicles, attitudes towards these cars. L3Pilot aims to demonstrate how self driving cars work in realistic environments, identify

SAFER's Newsletter for April

Welcome to read the summary of April-news!

SAFER's thirteenth operational year has begun

On April 1, SAFER began its thirteenth year of operation, leaving yet another year of successful vehicle and road safety research behind.

New call for Open Research Projects at AstaZero is open now!

Funding is now available for research projects that want to use the AstaZero proving ground.

Presentations from the seminar Säkrare tung trafik

Do you want to take part of all the knowledge that was brought up on the seminar Säkrare tung trafik a few weeks ago? Here are the presentations!

SAFER's Research Day April 19

Welcome to SAFER's Research day - stay up-to-date with our latest research!

The development of SAFER's human body model continues - step IV has been granted

SAFER continues its successful work on developing one of the world's leading tools for human body modeling than can be used for crash simulation.

Welcome to the Science festival

Welcome to visit SAFER and Revere at the Science Festival in Gothenburg! At this years Science Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, SAFER is presenting its research on automated driving in Nordstan together with the vehicle lab Revere on April 18 10:00-17:00. Take the opportunity to meet our researchers, discuss this exciting topic and ask your questions. The autonomous test car "Snowfox"

How close to zero car fatalities can we get?

Anders Lie from the Swedish Transport Administration has visited the researchers at SAFER to discuss the forecast of traffic safety, based on statistics and knowledge about current technology development. Vision Zero in Sweden and elsewhere The Swedish parliament decided back in 1997 on a long term target that no one should be killed or receive long term disability due to

SAFER’s Active human body model for virtual occupant response, step 3, is now finalized

In this project SAFER’s active human model has been further developed. The overall aim has been to develop a model for the whole crash sequence and important steps have been taken on muscle activation. This project is an important building block in SAFER's overall vision of human model's importance in future car development.

Johan Iraeus leads SAFER's work on human body models into the future

As of February 1st, Johan Iraeus took over the role of being responsible for the development of SAFER's human body models for use in the automotive industry after Karin Brolin. SAFER's human body models are world-leading and the ambition is to continue to perform cutting edge research and development in this area.

Much left to do for even safer heavy transports

It was a crowded conference hall when SAFER and NTF today organized a public seminar about safer heavy transports at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg.

DDI2018: Registration open and preliminary programs set!

Welcome to sign up to the 6th International conference on Driver distraction and inattention - registration is open and the preliminary program set!