In the SHRP 2 Safety research area, both vehicle-based and infrastructure-based technologies will be used to gather pre-crash, crash, and exposure data. The data can then be analyzed and applied to safety countermeasures. Projects that comprise the SHRP 2 Safety Research Plan are shown in the Projects database, which is organized by project number. Click the project number for a description of the expected project activity.

Fourth SHRP 2 Safety Symposium
July 23–24, 2009
Posted December 10, 2008

The Fourth SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium is scheduled for July 23–24, 2009 in the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, DC.

Recorded Webinar Available of SHRP 2 Conference for Data Acquisition System Procurement
Posted October 17, 2008

The recorded webinar of the September 16, 2008, pre-bid conference for Data Acquisition System procurement (Safety project S12) is now available. The recording shows the PowerPoint presentations and contains the audio from the conference. For further information please view this page.

Symposium Addresses Questions Concerning Study Design and Data Collection
Posted July 28, 2008

The Third SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium, which was held July 17-18 at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, DC, gathered nearly a hundred safety researchers from the U. S. and abroad to review the study design and data collection methods for the Safety research program.

The presentations can be viewed by clicking on the links below.

Kenneth L. Campbell, the SHRP 2 Chief Program Officer, opened the symposium on Thursday. The keynote speaker, Christine Branche, the Acting Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, provided information about the organization’s own safety research.

International panelists gave updates on the progress of naturalistic driving studies in their respective countries. European updates were provided from the Netherlands and the UK. An update was also given from Canada.

Each of the four research teams for Project S01 presented updates. Speakers included Gary Davis S01(A), Paul Jovanis S01(B), Lidia Kostyniuk and Paul Green S01(C), and Shauna Hallmark S01(E).

Research questions were addressed in a presentation by Dan McGehee for Project S02.

John Hunt gave a presentation for Project S03 and a separate was given by Anita Vandervalk for Task 2 of the same project.

Tom Dingus presented progress in project S05.

Future projects S04, S06, and S07 were covered in Friday’s closing presentation.

Presentations from the 2007 SHRP 2 Safety Symposium
Posted August 3, 2007

The second SHRP 2 Safety Symposium, held July 26-27, 2007, at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, DC, drew more than 100 members of the highway safety community, including SHRP 2 safety program contractors, for discussions about project plans. The presentations, which focused largely on the work in progress, can be viewed by clicking the presenter's name. These presentations were intended as reports on research progress and should not be construed as reports on research results.

Symposium Helps Refine SHRP 2 Safety Research Plan
Posted August 2006

The SHRP 2 Safety Symposium, held August 16-17 at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, DC, drew about 50 members of the safety data community who came to learn about and discuss the new type of research planned for the Safety focus area of SHRP 2.

The presentations can be viewed by clicking the presenter's name below.

In his opening remarks, Forrest Council, the Chairman of the Safety Technical Coordinating Committee, described SHRP 2 Safety research as an exciting experiment in studying safety from an entirely new perspective. He explained that the objectives for the symposium were to consider what might be missing from the research plan, whether the proposed research questions could be answered, and what analysis methods would be appropriate. Ken Campbell, SHRP 2 senior program officer leading the safety focus area, outlined plans for the two safety research tracks and reviewed the preliminary research questions.

Presentations related to the naturalistic driving study were made by S.G. "Charlie" Klauer of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, who provided an analysis of the 100-Car Study; Jim Sayer of University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), who described naturalistic studies of driver assistance systems; and Jonathon Koopman of the Volpe National Transportation Research Center, who provided an evaluation of US DOT field operational tests.

Presentations related to the site-based study included Frank Barickman of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration; Andrew Tarko of Purdue University who described an extreme value theory approach; and Tim Gordon of UMTRI who presented lessons from video-based vehicle tracking studies.