The Transport Safety Engineering Laboratory at the National Center for Transport Safety contributes to enhancing transportation safety levels, serving as a national enabler and advanced technical supporter for safety investigations across various modes of transport. The laboratory works on collecting technical evidence from accident sites, vehicles, and their components, documenting, processing, examining, and analyzing it, and transforming the extracted data and materials into reliable information and facts that support the determination of the causes of serious accidents and the reconstruction of their sequences, as well as the formulation of safety recommendations in accordance with the best international practices and standards. The laboratory's operations are based on an integrated system comprising more than 100 technical devices and equipment, and 16 technical and engineering programs, including 3D scanning and imaging technologies, drones for documenting accident sites, vehicle data analysis, accident reconstruction and simulation, in addition to materials and metals analysis to identify failure patterns and extraction of data from transport recorders. The laboratory provides specialized technical services in engineering tests and analyses, evidence processing, and the analysis of data extracted from devices and components, enhancing the accuracy of investigations and improving the quality of their outputs across various modes of transport. The laboratory has executed a number of technical requests at local, regional, and international levels, utilizing its technical capabilities and specialized national expertise, reflecting the growing confidence in its services and its role in supporting safety investigation work. The Engineering Laboratory for Transport Safety has obtained the ISO 9001 Quality Management System certification, affirming its commitment to implementing organized methodologies and procedures for quality management, enhancing the efficiency of its technical operations, and continuously improving them.
