TRC Ohio is the most comprehensive independent vehicle testing facility and proving grounds in the United States. Sitting on 4,500 acres in East Liberty Ohio, TRC Ohio engineers, test drivers and other technical specialists are skilled at testing for safety and stability, fuel economy, durability, emissions, noise, crash simulation and crashworthiness as well as autonomous and connected mobility testing of passenger cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, aircraft, off-road, tracked, alternative-fueled vehicles and vehicle systems. TRC Ohio operates 24/7 and in a full range of seasonal conditions on a variety of advanced research facilities, including numerous road courses, a 7.5-mile high-speed oval test track, skid pad, SMARTCenter and a 50-acre vehicle dynamics area.
Select an area
7.5 Mile Track
33 corridor
All-terrain Vehicle (ATV) Course
Brake Slopes
Brake Soak
Bus & Truck Durability Course
Ceramic & Basalt Tile Low Mu Surfaces
Cobblestone Durability Course
Control Tower
Curved Ride & Handling
Dynamics Handling Course
Emissions Laboratory
EV charging stations
Fuel Plaza
Gravel Durability Course
Impact Laboratory
ISO Noise Pad
James A. Rhodes Conference Center
Jennite Pad
Off-Road Durability Courses
Off-Road Mobility Courses
Paved & Gravel Hilly Road Courses
Paved Rough Road Courses & Salt Bath
Profile Roads – VDA
Resident Client buildings
Salt Spray Road, Stone Chipping Road, Curb Impact, & Chuckholes
TRC Inc. can duplicate driving routes using acceleration, force, stress, and brake-temperature profiles. The resulting data can be correlated with durability routes on TRC’s roadways. We can alter prototype components, as well as offer comparison testing. Various instrumentation packages can be assembled to measure vehicle parameters, such as temperature, velocity, engine speeds, stress or strain, deflection, load, pressure, and acceleration. Instruments range from visual readouts to full computer data acquisition systems.
TRC’s extensive proving ground offers comprehensive corrosion testing. We can etch, corrode, deteriorate, wear and decay just about any exposed materials in open or semi-open systems. Bare steel weight loss coupons are installed with nylon fasteners on the vehicle’s underbody or in other strategic locations. Components can be tested either on a complete vehicle or as attachments to a towed trailer. Corrosion schedules can be designed to accommodate the type of component or material being tested. Materials can be subjected to our corrosion-aging test facilities for accelerated corrosion, including salt spray, salt bath, chip road, troughs of water with stone dust and fire clay, gravel roads and environmental chambers.
TRC’s Instrumentation Calibration Laboratory provides highly accurate and expeditious calibration services for your testing and measurements equipment.
TRC Inc. can duplicate driving routes using acceleration, force, stress, and brake-temperature profiles. The resulting data can be correlated with durability routes on TRC’s roadways. We can alter prototype components, as well as offer comparison testing. Various instrumentation packages can be assembled to measure vehicle parameters, such as temperature, velocity, engine speeds, stress or strain, deflection, load, pressure, and acceleration. Instruments range from visual readouts to full computer data acquisition systems.
TRC’s extensive proving ground offers comprehensive corrosion testing. We can etch, corrode, deteriorate, wear and decay just about any exposed materials in open or semi-open systems. Bare steel weight loss coupons are installed with nylon fasteners on the vehicle’s underbody or in other strategic locations. Components can be tested either on a complete vehicle or as attachments to a towed trailer. Corrosion schedules can be designed to accommodate the type of component or material being tested. Materials can be subjected to our corrosion-aging test facilities for accelerated corrosion, including salt spray, salt bath, chip road, troughs of water with stone dust and fire clay, gravel roads and environmental chambers.
TRC’s Instrumentation Calibration Laboratory provides highly accurate and expeditious calibration services for your testing and measurements equipment.
TRC Inc. can duplicate driving routes using acceleration, force, stress, and brake-temperature profiles. The resulting data can be correlated with durability routes on TRC’s roadways. We can alter prototype components, as well as offer comparison testing. Various instrumentation packages can be assembled to measure vehicle parameters, such as temperature, velocity, engine speeds, stress or strain, deflection, load, pressure, and acceleration. Instruments range from visual readouts to full computer data acquisition systems.
