The National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) will host the Seventh International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research (NDRS 2018) at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center in Blacksburg, Virginia on August 28-30, 2018. Naturalistic driving experts, faculty, students, and the public are invited to… Continue Reading Register for the Seventh International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research

About automated vehicles If designed well, automated vehicles have considerable potential for reducing congestion, increasing safety, and providing new transportation solutions for people who currently cannot drive. This study is one of many being conducted to determine how best to design automated vehicles. This study is investigating the potential need for additional exterior signals on… Continue Reading VTTI Automated vehicle-related Testing In Arlington, Va.

Jean Paul “J.P.” Talledo Vilela is an embedded hardware team leader in the Center for Technology Development at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). The department in which he works, the Hardware Engineering Lab (HEL), develops connected- and automated-vehicle systems for use in the institute’s research studies and test-bed applications. We went down to the… Continue Reading Institute engineers drive advanced-vehicle technology forward