About Us

Our Mission

Enhance safety
of
ground vehicles
through
government/industry collaboration
and
advancement
of
lighting, reflective, audio, and video/vision technologies.

Our Vision

The Transportation Safety Equipment Institute aims to be the partner of choice for professionals and government agencies involved in lighting, reflective, audio, and video/vision technologies. We provide members the following services:

 

  • Government
    • Monitor and influence important global regulations
    • Assist authorities in controlling the sale of non-compliant products
    • Be a Center of Competence (CoC) for regulations and performance standards
  • Industry
    • Provide updates on planned changes to performance standards
    • Assure certification, monitoring, and testing to performance standards and regulations
    • Promote awareness of industry issues and developments
    • Provide a forum to discuss and resolve regulatory challenges associated with the proliferation of products that enhance ground vehicle safety
    • Cooperate with other organizations to promote safety, remove regulatory barriers, and monitor compliance of regulated products
    • Advocate for public policies promoting safety
    • Provide opportunities for networking with colleagues, regulators, inspectors, and researchers
    • Maintain market data

Our Members Provide

  • Vehicle mounted equipment for lighting, lamps, reflectors, turn signals, marker lights, mirrors, camera monitoring systems (CMS), emergency lighting equipment, conspicuity material, warning triangle kits, sound generators, radar, lidar, ultrasonic sensors, autonomous driving technologies, environmental surrounding and operational awareness products
  • Electronics and software to drive and operate vehicle mounted safety equipment 
  • Equipment and/or services that provide product performance and compliance assessments and inspections by authorities
  • Services that provide fleets with information to enable them to better manage the safe operation of their vehicles

Our Growing List of Member Companies

Peterson Manufacturing

Grote Industries

Truck-Lite

The Cortina Companies

Federal Signal Corporation

3M

Betts Industries

Voxx International

ams OSRAM

James King & Company

ORAFOL Americas