Center has infrastructure for the development and approval of passenger vehicles, light and heavy with safety, performance and efficiency tests
This Thursday (14), the Iracemápolis Vehicle Test Center (CTVI) inaugurated its new phase of operations with a complete infrastructure for vehicle tests. The space was created by the partnership between Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and Robert Bosch Latin America with an investment of around R$ 130 million.
Located near the Viracopos airport in Campinas (SP), the CTVI has been used since 2023, when the first works were completed. However, this year the space had its infrastructure completed and now inaugurates a new phase for the development and approval of vehicles, products and components of trucks, buses, automobiles, light commercial vehicles and agricultural machinery. The promise of the technical center is to integrate, in a single complex, all the essential stages of vehicle testing.
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Unlike other testing facilities, CTVI is not focused on race tracks, but on simulating everyday situations and streamlining the vehicle homologation process. With the entire operation ready, the technical center can be considered one of the most technological in Latin America, with a structure similar to test tracks in Europe and the USA.
Among the tests carried out in the space are:
The technical center has five tracks, seven independent workshops and technical areas designed to meet the demands of the automotive industry.
The circuit space consists of two parallel straights of 960 meters each and 2 compensated asphalt curves of 3 different angles. The complete oval lane totals 2.6 thousand meters in length, with 3 lanes.
HSO allows several verifications such as:
Adjacent to the HSO, the space encompasses 4 lanes with different floors and uneven surfaces for stability measurements, suspension and other items.
The CTVI also has a VDA of 88 thousand square meters of flat asphalt and 220 meters in diameter, one of the largest in Latin America. This track allows advanced maneuvers and tests of:
The space consists of 3 parallel and irrigable lanes that provide different adhesion coefficients. They can be used in improvement maneuvers for active safety systems, such as ABS and ESP.
With 1.6 km in length and varying levels of elevation, the circuit is composed of curves and sinuosities of different radii. It is available for drivability tests and tests of passenger and light commercial vehicles.
Automakers and companies that rent the CTVI space will be able to use the new independent workshops that were designed with privacy and confidentiality in mind.
Two of them are intended for commercial vehicles, with boxes capable of receiving trucks of different sizes. This includes tractors with or without semi-trailers, as well as buses of various sizes, from minibuses to heavy road models and articulated urban buses.
The other five workshops serve passenger vehicles and are totally isolated from each other, to ensure confidentiality during tests and developments. All boxes have infrastructure that includes an office, meeting room, internet connection, air conditioning, pantry, toilet, TV set and individualized access control.
