Proving ground


A proving ground, training area or training centre is an installation or reservation where vehicles, weapons or other civilian or military technology are experimented with or are tested, or where military tactics are tested. Proving ground is an area where the performance of such vehicles and objects is being tested.
Proving grounds often encompass large and remote areas.

Types of Proving Grounds

There are several different types of proving grounds, depending on the type of vehicle or objects being tested. We can classify them as:
Proving grounds are used by R&D engineering teams in vehicle development process for validation or verification, inspection, and certification or homologation of the vehicles. They are an efficient means of qualifying the durability and the performance of vehicles and their components.
Proving ground facilities are used to expose industry prototypes to the conditions that the final product will experience either in extremes or during its whole life-time. This is achieved by accelerating damage accumulation rates, so failures are detectable in a short period of time.
Typical applications for vehicle proving grounds are:

Asia

Republic of Korea

Australia

Austria

There are five proving grounds in the Czech Republic with the total area of 1296 km2.

Denmark

In Russia a designated area is usually called a "polygon".

Canada

In the United States, there are several military facilities that have been designated as Proving Grounds.
Automotive proving ground or also called automotive test track serves automotive industry for road vehicle testing. In automotive development process, vehicle manufacturers typically test the behaviour of the vehicle in various environments and traffic situations. Conventional vehicle test cases are usually focus on the dynamic properties of vehicles. Test tracks generally compass the engineering tasks of vehicle testing, validation and proving.
By the advent of autonomous cars, new proving grounds specially dedicated for self-driving cars appear as well as traditional test fields are transformed for highly automated or autonomous vehicle tests.

Automakers