Located at the Campus Sur, it has 3,000 m2 of laboratory buildings with testing facilities and 1,700 m2 for R+D+i, teaching and administration.
The centre has very highly qualified research workers, some academic and others under contract, with more than 20 years’ experience in R+D+i activities related to the traffic accidents and vehicles safety, automobile industry, transportation sector and more recently to the transportation environmental impact.
The Institute has carried out relevant studies into accidentology, transport, passive safety in buses, coaches and industrial vehicles, biomechanics, intelligent systems and vehicle engineering. It is also authorised as the Official Laboratory for obtaining official approval according to several Regulations and Directives (buses and coaches, stability, tyres, seats, restraint systems) and Important Reforms.
One of our many objectives is to position ourselves as one of the point of reference R+D+i centres in the automobile industry sector, which carries out activities of:
- Research, development and innovation particularly orientated towards the safety and environmental impact of vehicles.
- To provide service and co-operate with business and public organisations in matters of the Institute’s specialisation.
- To provide specialised post-graduate training.
- To be a communications and documentation channel within the sector.
