Midwest Roadside Safety Facility

Midwest Roadside Safety Facility
Agency overview
Formed1974 (1974)
TypeCrash test facility
Headquarters2200 Vine Street
Lincoln, Nebraska
40°51′35″N 96°46′12″W / 40.8596°N 96.7701°W / 40.8596; -96.7701
Employees47 (2025)
Agency executive
  • Ronald Faller, Director
Parent agencyUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
Websitehttp://mwrsf.unl.edu

The Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (Midwest or MwRSF) is a research organization in Lincoln, Nebraska that conducts automotive crash testing. MwRSF is operated by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and researches highway design and safety, with a particular emphasis on safety performance evaluations of roadside appurtenances. Since its establishment in 1974, the facility has evaluated existing barriers and developed new design concepts and technologies for use on public roadways.

MwRSF engineers designed and tested the SAFER barrier, an energy-absorbing "soft wall" system installed at all high-speed oval race tracks used by NASCAR and IndyCar.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.