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Why
Real-world driving situations in a safe, controlled environment.
The NTC Driving Simulator Lab can recreate roadway, traffic, and environmental conditions without putting participants on public roads. Scenarios can be repeated adjusted and measured for demonstrations, training, education, and project-specific testing.
Immersive
Realistic cockpits, broad visual fields, sound, motion and vehicle controls.
Configurable
Adjust roads, traffic, weather, lighting, vehicles and events.
Measurable
Record driving performance, system data and in-cab video.
Repeatable
Run consistent scenarios across participants and applications.
Research Directions
Explore driver behavior and human factors, health and accessibility, cognition and decision-making, emerging vehicle technologies, high-risk driving scenarios, and traffic operations.
Education & Outreach
Support course demonstrations, hands-on student projects, graduate research, public demonstrations, K–12 and STEM activities, and engagement with industry, agencies, and the community.
Training & Workforce Development
Use controlled driving scenarios for driver safety assessment, hazard recognition and response, and workforce development.
Truck Driving Simulator
$64.82 per Day
Put drivers behind truck-specific controls and build customizable commercial-vehicle scenarios with an integrated co-simulation platform.
- Truck cockpit and driving-control hardware
- Heavy-truck dynamics through TruckSim
- 3D roadway environments through CARLA
- Traffic-flow simulation through SUMO
- Dynamic weather and lighting
- Camera, LiDAR, radar, GNSS, and IMU sensor simulation
- Python/C++ interfaces and truck-performance data recording
What it can Do
Recreate truck-driving environments, vary traffic and operating conditions, simulate onboard sensors, and capture vehicle-performance data for demonstrations, training and testing.
Car miniSim Simulator
$77.04 per Hour
The NADS miniSim AV Driving System combines a real vehicle cockpit with a curved visual environment, motion, sound and integrated data capture.
- 180-degree horizontal field of view
- Three-degree-of-freedom motion base
- Vibration feedback and sound
- Four in-cab HD video feeds
- Automated-driving mode and switch
- Custom roads, traffic, weather and lighting
- Scenario and event programming with data recording
What it can Do
Immerse drivers in custom passenger-vehicle scenarios, reproduce changing road and weather conditions, model automated-driving interactions, and capture driving data and in-cab video.
How to Partner with Us
Joint Research Proposals
Develop research questions, study plans, grant proposals, and collaborative publications.
Faculty & Student Pilot Research
Equipment cost waiver + low cost for technical support (exclude driving scenario development and participant recruitment). NTC Fellows receive a 25% discount.
Outreach
We support lab visits, tours, and demonstrations.
Bring your Research Questions to NTC!
We offer free initial consultations to explore how driving simulation can support your research, discuss potential experimental designs, and assess project feasibility and budget requirements.