The seminar has two pages, one with Swedish flag and one with English flag. The page you read now is the main page for inofrmation, registration and possible updates.

Link to proceedings: Will come here, some time after the seminar. We hope to be able to publish most of presentations and posters.

Fordonsdynamiksseminarium 2026 — Framtida inriktningar

Vehicle Dynamics 2026 — Future directions

This year, we have chosen a very open topic for the seminar. In engineering and vehicle development, we face significant challenges. These include energy and climate, sustainability and resilience, and the balance between global and local perspectives. At the same time, there are major opportunities. These include electric propulsion, AI in product development, AI embedded in products, and the use of big data and cloud technologies. The overall purpose of our products remains unchanged. They should provide efficient and safe road and ground transportation. However, these opportunities are likely to reshape many concepts that have evolved over decades of vehicle engineering. Many of these opportunities have existed for a long time. In recent years, global and local political developments have increased the urgency to act on them.

With this as background, the seminar will present a selection of studies/findings/proposals. Most presentations origing from Sweden, but we have a couple of international presentations also. The seminar invites engineers and technicians in and after work-life as well as young engineers under education. An important purpose with the seminar is to create and maintain networks between us.

Autoliv will present their test track but also their workplace. Hence the first presentation and the lunch demo tour on test track is also a SVEA workplace meeting, so we underline that also engineers outside the core vehicle dynamics are welcome.

Wednesday May 20

The seminar will be in “hybrid format”, meaning that participation is possible both in-real-life and on-line.

In-real-life:

Autoliv Sverige AB
Wallentinsvägen 22, 447 37 Vårgårda, Sweden

Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RriKcRFQMRnkr5ucA
(Note, the building is new and not yet visible at Google Maps)

Parking possibilities:

• https://maps.app.goo.gl/S2Zc7SGcMHGSB3oP9
• https://maps.app.goo.gl/5BHVPUN42BgvBEX96

On-line:

Link to on-line meeting will be sent to those who register as on-line.

Registration

Registration is made on https://www.sveafordon.com/en/event/vehicle-dynamics-2026/
If you are SVEA member, it is easier to register for the seminar if you log in before registration.

You will get a confirmation that you are registered.

Initial seminar registration deadline is 2026-05-13, we will order light lunch and fika for those registered until then plus some in reserve.
We usually re-opens the registration after that deadline and for those who register then, we cannot promise light lunch and fika.

2026-05-14: Registration re-opened. Please continue to register. Number of seats is not yet limiting and we will try to light lunch and fika for new registrations, and send out link to on-line participation.

Seminar costs

The seminar is free for SVEA members. SVEA will sponsor food (fika and light lunch) for members (incl. pending membership applicants) who attend in-real-life.
For non-members attending in-real-life there will be a fee of 210 SEK (>membership fee!).

Presenters (incl. poster presenters) attend for free.

We encourage to apply for SVEA membership (https://www.sveafordon.com/en/for-members/register/). SVEA membership fee is 200 SEK/year (junior 0 SEK, senior 100 SEK). (<seminar fee!).
You will directly automatically become preliminary member.

Purpose with the seminar

• Present and discuss interesting issues on future directions for vehicle dynamics
• Create understanding and interest for vehicle dynamics
• Develop, increase, and spread competence
• Networking between engineers, organisations, and students

SVEAs objectives

• To make vehicular technology’s voice heard in an increasingly more challenging debate among different vehicle types and transport modes both domestic and globally
• To build a network for efficient distribution of technological information
• To attract the next generation of Swedish vehicular engineers

Poster exhibition

There will be an exhibition of posters. It can be, e.g., master theses or PhD theses, either concluded or almost concluded. Please contact Lars Drugge larsd@kth.se or Bengt Jacobson bengt.jacobson@chalmers.se if you would like to propose a poster.

Each poster presenter should do a poster and a 5 minute “micro presentation” with a few slides. Then the presenter should also be available for questions at the poster stands.

Proceedings

There will be proceedings from the seminar. This means that the presenters, including poster presenters, are welcome with a paper, or at least a public version of their presentation material. The proceedings will be published on the SVEA web. It will include a list of seminar participants, unless you ask us to not list your name.

Agenda

The seminar is hosted by Autoliv arranged by the Swedish Vehicle Dynamics Competence Area (VDCA) and Swedish Vehicular Engineering Association (SVEA, Sweden’s society member of FISITA). The seminar is arranged with VDCA representatives from:

Autoliv

AFRY Automotive
AstaZero
Chalmers
KTH
Polestar
Scania
Volvo Cars
Volvo Trucks
VTI
Zeekr Technology Europe