Sintef Driving Simulator, Trondheim Norway

Sintef is the largest independent research institute in Scandinavia. They have approximately 2.000 employees, of which 1.300 are located in Trondheim and 450 in Oslo. Sintef Transport Research is a national center of expertise in transport research with a technological base. One of the resources used is the driving simulator. The driving simulator is the main component of the “Norwegian Centre for Studies of Road User Behaviour”. The centre is based on a cross-disciplinary environment at SINTEF and NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) including expert knowledge of traffic, road design, IT, medicine, psychology and educational science.

The Oktal SCANeR II driving simulator includes:

• Graphic, combined truck- and passenger car simulator (1999 -)
• Equipment for measuring driver behavior 

  - Smart Eye Pro - remote real time Eye Tracker with three cameras.  
  - Four channel video-recorder and multiplexer 
  - Equipment for heart rate registration

The driving simulators are used both for educational and applied research purposes;

Scientific Research and Education

Applied Research

• Driver Capabilities
• Driver Training Methods
• In-vehicle ICT solutions
• Traffic Regulation and Road Design
• Traffic Medicine