Director's Message from Tom Dingus

Investing in Infrastructure — As VTTI has grown and matured, so has its facilities, which currently include two buildings housing all of the VTTI "Safety Centers" including the National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence (NSTSCE), research offices, secure and non–secure data reduction labs, data center, participant prep areas and conference rooms. In addition, VDOT has provided 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 the capability to collect over 35 terabytes of naturalistic data and the tools to analyze this data. In 2006 we 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 VTTI Center for Injury Biomechanics. We have also established a product development center to take VTTI to the next stage: patents, licensing, and a spin–off company.

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