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VTI - Statens Väg- och Transportforskningsinstitut

Sweden

The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI, is located in Linköping, some 200 kilometres south-west of Stockholm. It is a national research institute under the Ministry for Industry, Employment and Communications. VTI conducts applied research, commissioned by the transport sector, in the fields of infrastructure, traffic and transport.

VTI has an annual turnover of SEK 150 million (USD 15 million), of which 80 % is acquired through commissioned research.

The Institute employs 180 researchers and other experts, of whom 44 hold a doctor’s degree. Nine senior researchers are associate professors at Swedish universities or institutes of technology. The skills of the researchers cover the areas of traffic engineering, transport economics, transport supply and demand, road safety, environmental aspects, road user behaviour, collision safety, human factors, vehicle engineering, railway engineering and the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of roads and railways. The range of skills indicate the inter-disciplinary composition of the research staff.

Approximately 100 reports are issued annually in VTI series and reprints.

The VTI’s resources include well-equipped laboratories, for example two driving simulators - one passenger car simulator and one truck simulator, both with a full motion system and wide-angle visual system, crash safety test tracks, tyre test facilities and laboratories for material testing as well as a heavy vehicle simulator for mobile testing of road pavements and other advanced measuring equipment for field tests. The activities also include development of various analytical and simulation models for estimating effects of changes of the transport system.

VTI has the most important Swedish library and documentation centre within the transportation area.

VTI holds the Quality System Certificate ISO 9001.

Additional Information: www.vti.se

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