The aim of the project is to investigate injury patterns and the severity of head injuries (including neck and brain injuries) with and without helmets. This will involve an in-depth analysis of accident data, realistic testing methods, and FE simulations of cyclists and e-scooter riders. The influence of different helmet systems on injury patterns and injury severity will be investigated, as well as the identification of key helmet variables and parameters to achieve the best possible protective effect. The expected effects on the frequency of injury patterns will be evaluated in relation to Austrian accident statistics, depending on different helmet-wearing rates.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Beginn: 28.02.2026
Ende: 27.02.2027
The aim of the research project is to investigate the mechanical integrity and safety behavior of transport and storage boxes for Li-ion batteries during thermal runaway. The research experiments are intended to generate data on the safe storage of Li-ion batteries in future mobility concepts in order to verify existing.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Beginn: 21.12.2025
Ende: 21.04.2026
This project aims to develop a methodology for identifying an evaluation criterion and an optimal parameter combination to assess the effects of thermal runaway in a battery pack using the TRIM method. The project includes tests at the cell level and the pack level.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Beginn: 31.10.2025
Ende: 29.04.2026
The aim of the research project is to investigate the mechanical integrity and safety behavior of lithium-ion batteries under different load velocities. In particular, the influence of the load velocitiesis to be systematically analyzed. The tests carried out provide safety-relevant data for future mobility concepts, which can be used to validate simulation models or verify existing concepts.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Beginn: 09.10.2025
Ende: 09.09.2026
The aim of the AddSafety project is to bring the assessment of vehicle safety systems closer to real traffic conditions. It aims to promote the use of simulations in a wide range of scenarios and significantly improve confidence in simulation results through improved hardware testing for calibration and validation of simulation models. The combination of physical tests and simulations (‘hybrid evaluation’) will enable the development of more robust safety systems. The necessary tools and methods will be developed as part of the project and applied to selected systems. This will enable the systems to be developed more efficiently and require fewer hardware tests. In addition, this hybrid assessment method would allow a much larger number of scenarios to be taken into account, thus better reflecting real-life accident situations.
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Konsortialführer/in bzw. Koordinator/in bei Kooperationen mit externen Organisationen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Horst Possegger
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc
Beginn: 30.09.2025
Ende: 29.09.2029
The objective of the project is the acceleration of one reference profile on module level by using literature and degradation analysis of available cycling studies. Based on a literature analysis of aging mechanisms found in artificial aging experiments and real aged batteries, cycling requirements will be derived for cycling acceleration.
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Beginn: 30.09.2025
Ende: 29.09.2026
The objective of the project is to define diagnostic charging profiles for lithium-ion battery, develop a model-based framework for damage detection, and ensure scalability of the diagnostic methodology from single cells to multi-cells systems.
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Projektleiter/in an der OE
Hannes Wegleiter
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Beginn: 30.09.2025
Ende: 30.03.2029
With the increase in e-scooters, there has also been a significant increase in traffic conflicts and accidents. Within certain limits, e-scooters have been largely equated with bicycles by legislators, without however taking into account the different requirements. This project therefore examines whether this equivalence is justified and what future requirements must be placed on e-scooters as well as on the shared infrastructure.
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Konsortialführer/in bzw. Koordinator/in bei Kooperationen mit externen Organisationen
Beginn: 30.09.2025
Ende: 29.09.2026
The objective of the project is to investigate the impact of module interface degradation and its implications for battery safety throughout the usage lifetime. The focus of DECOM is to investigate how interface material degradation (e.g., compression pads, TRP stop material, gap filler) influences cell swelling and thermal runaway (TR) and thermal runaway propagation (TRP) behaviour. Additionally, the impact of battery degradation on the TR and TRP will be investigated.
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Beginn: 30.06.2025
Ende: 30.03.2029
Analysing the behaviour of innovative battery cells under various kinds of load is essential to guarantee or improve the safety of electric vehicles in defined safety-critical load cases. Constantly evolving cell types with innovative cell chemistry pose new tasks and problems for research in the field of battery safety. In this project, the main focus will be on pouch cells and, further, pouch modules. This research project aims to analyse the thermal runaway behaviour of the batteries and to investigate the thermal propagation within pouch modules.
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Beginn: 30.06.2025
Ende: 29.06.2027
The objective is to systematically research electrochemical and mechanical damage mechanisms in lithium-ion battery cells using non-destructive testing methods. The focus is on the development, implementation, and evaluation of experimental investigations (e.g., EIS, pulse method) to assess internal cell changes during ageing and damage.
Mitarbeiter*innen
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Beginn: 31.03.2025
Ende: 30.03.2029
The aim of this research project is to investigate the possible effects on the performance of a selection of modern protective devices in the event of an electric car crash using FEM simulations. The focus here is to be on the total weight and the changed mass distribution of the impacting electric vehicle.
electric vehicle.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Konsortialführer/in bzw. Koordinator/in bei Kooperationen mit externen Organisationen
Beginn: 31.12.2024
Ende: 30.12.2026
The SMADBatt project is based on the final demonstrator of the BioLIB project as a study vehicle, with the aim of developing ecologically and economically sensible solutions for the choice of materials and the design of battery housings.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Konsortialführer/in bzw. Koordinator/in bei Kooperationen mit externen Organisationen
Beginn: 30.09.2024
Ende: 29.09.2027
The aim of the FairOSA research project is to investigate whether the different seat belt routing for men and women contributes to the fact that women have a higher risk of injury and to derive concepts to ensure better protection regardless of body size.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Konsortialführer/in bzw. Koordinator/in bei Kooperationen mit externen Organisationen
Beginn: 31.08.2024
Ende: 30.08.2027
Analysing the behaviour of innovative battery cells under various kinds of load is essential in order to guarantee or improve the safety of electric vehicles in defined safety critical load cases. Constantly evolving cell types with innovative cell chemistry pose new tasks and
problems for research in the field of battery safety. In this project, the main focus will be on pouch cells and further, pouch modules. The aim of this research projects is to analyse the thermal runaway behaviour of the batteries and to investigate the thermal propagation within pouch modules.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Christian Ellersdorfer
Assoc.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Assoc.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Beginn: 30.06.2024
Ende: 29.06.2027
The focus of the experimental research is the detailed experimental analysis of the limit range of the handling and saturation points. The aim is the basic mechanical characterization of the battery cell used in the research project and the implementation and validation of the innovative test concept developed in the K2 project.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Beginn: 31.01.2024
Ende: 30.12.2026
The focus of the experimental research is the detailed experimental analysis of the limit range of the handling and saturation points. The aim is the basic mechanical characterization of the battery cell used in the research project and the implementation and validation of the innovative test concept developed in the K2 project.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Beginn: 31.01.2024
Ende: 30.12.2026
The objective of the study is to evaluate possible effects of the green arrow for cyclists when the signals show red on road safety and to derive recommendations for the practical implementation of the green arrow for cyclists.
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Projektleiter/in an der OE
Horst Possegger
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc
Beginn: 31.12.2023
Ende: 29.04.2026
The central goal of "CarryMeHome" is to bring people and shopping goods to their destination as energy-efficiently, energy- and time-savingly, safely, seamlessly and barrier-free as possible. At the same time, the urban quality of life for visitors and residents is to be enhanced by traffic calming. At the same time, there should be no loss, but on the contrary, an enhancement of (commercial) usability. The neighbouring rural zones up to a distance of at least 10 km should be connected by soft or active mobility.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter/in an der OE
Beginn: 30.09.2023
Ende: 29.09.2026
NEMO project aims at advancing the state of the art of battery management systems (BMS) by engaging advanced physics-based and data-driven battery models and state estimation techniques. Towards achieving this goal, the consortium tends to provide efficient software and hardware to handle, host, process, and execute these approaches within high-end local processors and cloud computing.
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Patrick Höschele
Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. BSc
Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. BSc
Beginn: 30.04.2023
Ende: 30.10.2026
2004 wurde das Projekt ZEDATU beim Österreichischen Verkehrssicherheitsfonds als Pilotprojekt gestartet.
Ein großer Unterschied zur Nationalen Statistik besteht in der vollständigen Unfallrekonstruktion jedes Verkehrsunfalls mit dem Unfallrekonstruktionsprogramm PC CRASH. Dadurch stehen Unfallparameter wie beispielsweise Ausgangs- und Kollisionsgeschwindigkeit der beteiligten Fahrzeuge, Fahrlinie, Reaktionspunkt etc. für eine Auswertung zur Verfügung. Ein wichtiger Punkt ist die Einbeziehung der Datenfelder der amtlichen Unfallstatistik, wodurch eine österreichspezifische Auswertung durch Verknüpfung der Unfalltypen der Unfallzählblätter möglich ist.
Derzeit erfolgt eine fortlaufende Datensammlung von Verkehrsunfällen mit Personenschaden.
Mitarbeiter*innen
Projektleiter*innen
Beginn: 31.12.2005
Ende: 30.12.2040
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