Tom Dingus, Ph.D. Thomas A. Dingus is Director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), the National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence (NSTSCE) and is the Newport News Shipbuilding Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Full bio

Project Descriptions

NSTSCE Sponsors

National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence (NSTSCE) uses state-of-the-art facilities, including the Smart Road, to develop and test transportation devices and techniques that enhance driver performance, examine advanced roadway delineation and lighting systems, address age-related driving issues, and fatigued-driver issues.

National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence (NSTSCE)

develops and disseminates advanced transportation safety techniques and innovations. The Center's mission is to use state-of-the-art facilities, including the Virginia Smart Road, to conduct the necessary research to improve driver safety in both rural and urban communities. NSTSCE's strategic goals are to improve safety using an integrated and dynamic approach to the following:

Developing and evaluating new devices and techniques for enhancing driver performance.
Identifying age-related deficiencies in driving performance and developing methods to mitigate the associated risks.
Understanding the role fatigue plays in crashes and developing and evaluating countermeasures to reduce fatigue-related traffic incidents.
Improving the nighttime roadway visual environment through the assessment of behavior, establishment of visibility needs, and control of adverse lighting effects.
Developing a greater understanding of driver decision making and performance in normal driving through imminent crash situations in various driving environments.
Developing next-generation tools and techniques for mining large naturalistic datasets to identify specific driver behaviors, critical incidents, and infrastructure-related information.