Research

With annual expenditures between $15-20 million, UMTRI is one of the largest research institutes at U-M.  

Our research informs and influences practices, procedures, and policy on the state and national levels. Our research teams have:

• Transformed occupant restraint systems, child restraint systems, safety belts, and airbags
• Analyzed hundreds of crashes
• Studied people and their transportation requirements, needs, and capabilities, from newborns through seniors
• Shaped modern transportation through new vehicle systems, connectivity, automation, and infrastructure
• Built one of the largest, most efficient, and high-quality naturalistic driving datasets
• Gathered the largest connected vehicle research datasets in the world