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Welcome to the TASI website.

Our website is still under construction, but we wanted to share as much information with you as possible while continuing our updating.

TASI's mission is to advance the use of active safety systems to reduce vehicle crashes and save lives.

The Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) was founded in February, 2006, and officially recognized as an IUPUI campus-wide center in January, 2007. TASI was one of 10 centers awarded IUPUI Signature Center funding in January, 2008.

With core faculty drawn from nine departments representing seven schools, the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) is a university-wide interdisciplinary center for advanced automotive-safety research and development on the IUPUI campus.

Partnership with industry, government, and non-profit agencies will ensure that university research activities complement existing technologies and address existing and future needs. TASI has built a strong interdisciplinary team, which will allow it to achieve greater efficiency and visibility.

TASI aims to provide a neutral forum for pre-competitive discussion and development of standards and test methodologies for establishing objective benefits of active-safety systems.

2009 International Workshop on Research in Active Safety Technology

Held August 10-11, 2009 at the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis, this workshop brought together researchers from academia, industry, and the public sector.

The keynote speaker was Joseph Kanianthra, President, Active Safety Engineering LLC; former Associate Administrator, NHTSA. His talk Reinventing Safety: It's Challenges and Opportunities was well received by the invited audience of researchers.

IU SPEA Transportation Research Center, IU School of Medicine, NADS/University of Iowa, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Tsinghua University, and University of Wisconsin, among others, were represented.