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- EIN 53-0246204
- (703) 247-1500
- 4121 Wilson Blvd 6th Fl Arlington VA 22203-4143 USA
- www.iihs.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Automotive Safety, Disaster Aid
Mission: The insurance institute for highway safety is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization. It identifies and evaluates ways to reduce the human and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes and communicates the results of that research to the public, federal, state, and local highway and vehicle safety officials, vehicle manufacturers, insurers, the media, the research community and others.
Programs: Research projects: projects undertaken to identify and evaluate methods of reducing the personal injuries and property damage resulting from the use of motor vehicles.
vehicle research center projects: engineering and other resource support for vehicle related research projects and vehicle crash testing to evaluate the ability of vehicles to protect their occupants in front, side, rear, and rollover crashes. Recent vehicle research center expansion will allow evaluation of vehicle based crash avoidance systems.
communications projects: projects undertaken to disseminate information to the public concerning motor vehicle and highway research done by the institute and by other organizations involved in motor vehicle and highway safety. The institute's public website provides information on the institute's research and on the institute's crash testing to evaluate the crashworthiness of vehicles, as well as on new research performed on vehicle based crash avoidance systems.
highway loss data institute (hldi): hldi is a tax-exempt research and educational organization. Hldi performs scientific studies of insurance claims data on motor vehicle losses and publishes insurance loss results by vehicle make and model.