From 1994 to 2015, Rune Elvik was chief research officer for road safety at the Institute of Transport Economics, Norwegian Centre
for Transport Research. During this period, he also held part-time chairs in road safety at Aalborg University (Denmark) from 2008
to 2015, and Lund University (Sweden) from 2009 to 2012. He has over 40 years of experience in road safety research and is recognised
as one of the World’s leading road traffic scientists, having made a significant and sustained impact on road safety, this was
recognised in 2008 by the award of the Nordic Road Safety Council prize. From 2005 to 2013 he was editor-in-chief (with Karl Kim) of
Accident Analysis and Prevention. His substantial academic output includes more than 160 papers in scientific journals, and contributions
to over 18 books, including as senior author for "the Handbook of Road Safety Measures", which has been published in six languages
(Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, English, Spanish, Portuguese). He also contributed to the first edition of the Highway Safety Manual,
published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in 2010. Exceptionally, he has four doctoral degrees,
his most recent thesis in 2017 was also published as a book "The Value of Life: The Rise and Fall of a Scientific Research Programme".
Rune Elvik has contributed to many EU-funded projects, starting in 1988 with the ITHACA-project (Indepth accident collection and analysis).
Subsequent projects include ESCAPE (police enforcement), IMMORTAL (driver impairment), ROSEBUD (cost-benefit analysis), SILVIA
(low-noise road surfaces), SAFETYNET (knowledge database), RIPCORD-ISEREST (road infrastructure safety), SUPREME (examples of best practices),
DACOTA (knowledge database; time-series modelling), SAFETYCUBE (decision support system), VIRTUAL (open source human body models) and
LEVITATE (societal impacts of connected and automated vehicles).