Vehicle Safety Institute - TU Graz

Children differ from adults with their smaller body size and their traffic perception, movement behavior and hazard assessment. In the KISIMO project, the movement behavior of children was examined under laboratory conditions. The stopping distance of children of different ages did not differ. However, older children were faster and therefore had higher decelerations than younger children. They also reacted more quickly to a corresponding signal. The project was funded by the Austrian Road Safety Fund. #https://lnkd.in/d_wuFZCr #https://lnkd.in/dxUjDDzd #https://lnkd.in/dACHMty6 #https://lnkd.in/d-wM7YMQ #https://lnkd.in/dWicSqtv #children #road safety #pedestrian #VSF picture © Martin Nußbaum

In the last week of school, there was a safety day at BG Rein. Alexander Hödl and Ernst Tomasch managed a road safety session and demonstrated the protective capabilities of cycle helmets to the children. The pupils were then encouraged to make and test their own helmets. Acceleration signals were recorded and compared with accelerations that would act on the head without a helmet. # BG Rein # Safety # Bicycle helmets The full video of the safety day is on https://lnkd.in/dAn8gaYX

By obtaining approval for the K1 centre Battery4Life, TU Graz is further expanding its position as Austria's most successful university in the FFG Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH's COMET programme. 🔋 ✌ It is a great success for TU Graz and proof of the outstanding expertise of its researchers in the rapidly developing field of battery technology: a team led by Christian Ellersdorfer and Jörg Moser (Jörg M.) from the Institute of Vehicle Safety will work with national and international partners to make batteries safer, more durable and more sustainable. 👉 https://lnkd.in/d6ehg9AE

This year‘s carhs training gmbh Safety Update Austria is going to be very special. Why? - We celebrate 20 years Vehicle Safety Institute at TU Graz and have a look back an forward - We will see a lot of updates in Euro NCAP protocols being prepared for 2026 including the Introduction of Virtual Testing for Frontal and Far Side - We will have very exciting presentations on our special topic day focusing on occupant status monitoring and adaptive restraints and how the first one can support the latter to ensure best possible protection for everyone Stay tuned for the final program. Today we have published a very first teaser: https://lnkd.in/d6M36Mz It will happen on the 24th and 25th of September. Make sure you don’t miss the early bird discount!

On May 24th, our institute took part in the Long Night of Research in Austria and had the chance to show our research at Technische Universität Graz to the public.   This provided us with the opportunity to present and discuss findings from our current research initiatives in the field of battery safety, also from ongoing funded projects including: - SafeLib - BattBox - NEMO EU PROJECT - E-Trac. - …   The overall title of our engaging stand was "What occurs when an electric car battery reaches its threshold?", which leads to very fascinating and very interesting discussions between scientific and public participants.   Thanks to Technische Universität Graz for the opportunity to join, all the helpers from our institutes and especially to all participant.

Yesterday was a big day for Martin Schachner. He defended his thesis focusing on pedestrians’ road crossing behaviour and has very successfully completed his PhD. Congratulations!!!!

Yesterday Jörg M. presented our battery safety research at the Battery Safety Talk organised by the Green Testing Lab. Thanks for organising this interesting event!

We are thrilled to announce that Christoph Leo has successfully defended his dissertation on holistic pedestrian assessments bridging the gap between active and passive safety today. Congratulations!!!

We have an open research position in our „Accident and Injury Prevention“ research group with focus on Human Body Models and occupant protection. Please apply via the link below or share :-) https://lnkd.in/dJikHkMc What we offer: - Interesting international research close to applications - An interdisciplinary team - Opportunity for a PhD in the area of injury biomechanics