Safety Arena Lindholmen

What is SAFER?

Chalmers’s competence centre SAFER coordinates research projects and activities related to automotive and traffic safety at Safety Arena. SAFER makes decisions about cross-disciplinary research projects conducted in collaboration between universities, industry, institutes and authorities.

SAFER also coordinates applications for EU projects. Approximately 50 projects and feasibility studies are currently being coordinated by SAFER within the framework of the Sweden Michigan Naturalistic Field Operational Test (SeMiFOT). Among the fastest-growing research fields in traffic and automotive safety are naturalistic studies and field operational testing (FOT), which study driver behaviour during normal car driving and document chains of events in crisis situations. SAFER is the leader of the project Sweden Michigan Naturalistic Field Operational Test (SeMiFOT), a Swedish-American collaboration between 15 parties including the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), the world leader in this field. 

Vinnova is the primary funder of SAFER

Resources totalling SEK 18 million have been invested in the project. The project’s primary funder, Vinnova, has entered an agreement with the Michigan Department of Transportation to promote development in joint research areas. Vinnova is also actively involved in EU applications for FOT projects.

More projects at Safety Arena Lindholmen

Several projects from the research programme IVSS (Intelligent Vehicles and Safety Systems) and the automotive research programme V-ICT have been conducted under the auspices of Safety Arena Lindholmen. Such projects include CEDES, VISAS and OPTIVe. Students working on their theses under these projects are offered access to the arena and to the laboratory equipment utilised in the projects.