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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