What's New at VTTI?
The latest news and exciting research happening at VTTI
- First Participant Motorcycle Instrumented for Extended Naturalistic Data Collection
- Texting Ban Becomes Law in Virginia July 1, 2009
- Webinar hosted by FMCSA on Driver Distraction in Commercial Vehicle Operations
- VTTI Hosted 19th Biennial TRB Visibility Symposium
- New Partnership between VTTI and Center for Injury Biomechanics Receives First Award
- Defensive Driving Tips Website for CMV Drivers
- Virginia Teen Driver Coach Safety Project
- Datasets Now Available for 100&nash;Car Crashes and Near–Crashes
Director's Message from Tom Dingus
Investing in Infrastructure — As VTTI has grown and matured, so have its facilities, including a new 22,000-square-foot building. This building houses all of the VTTI "Safety Centers" including the National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence (NSTSCE). In addition, VDOT supplied us with a mobile asphalt laboratory to expand our infrastructure research capacity.
Investing in Technology — VTTI has become a leader in naturalistic, real-world driving research. Our experts have developed data acquisition systems (DASs) that have collected over 35 terabytes of naturalistic data and the tools to analyze this data. In 2006 they began development of a next-generation DAS. With these advances, VTTI is now poised to garner the largest naturalistic transportation study ever attempted.
Investing in People — We continue to invest in our team and hire talented researchers, engineers, technicians, support staff, and students. We have forged relationships with Virginia Tech's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School for Biomedical Engineering and Science to develop the Center for Injury Biomechanics-Transportation. We have also hired a product development center director to take VTTI to the next stage-patents, licensing, and a spin-off company.
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