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.

Supplemental Data Acquisition System Procurement Information
Posted July 28, 2008

The following is supplemental information for the Data Acquisition System discussed in Request for Qualifications Project S07: In-Vehicle Driver Behavior Field Study. The first is a sample consent form that drivers would be required to sign. The second details the tests that will assess the drivers. The last describes the data that the DAS will collect.

SHRP 2 Pre-Bid Announcement for Data Acquisition System Procurement
Posted July, 28, 2008

On September 16, 2008, a pre-bid conference is being held at the Keck Center of the National Academies related to the procurement of the Data Acquisition System for the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study. Please view the full announcement here.

SHRP 2 Safety Project S-03: Roadway Measurement System Evaluation Rodeo
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September 14-20, 2008, and October 5-11, 2008
Posted May 23, 2008

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) project on roadway measurement system evaluation (Project S-03) will hold a road course testing “rodeo” to explore the existing capabilities of commercial mobile roadway safety data collection vendors and to examine the precision and accuracy of these systems.

The rodeo will also be used to help pre-qualify commercial data collection vendors for bidding on SHRP 2’s project on the acquisition of roadway information (Project S-04). S-04 will produce a geographic information system database of roadway and roadside characteristics and features that can be linked with the SHRP 2 in-vehicle driving behavior field study (Project S-07).

Potential rodeo participants are asked to hold September 14-20, 2008, and October 5-11, 2008, as potential dates for this event. Once the final date and location for the rodeo have been selected, an announcement will be made in TRB’s E-Newsletter, on the TRB and SHRP 2 websites, and on the rodeo’s website. Additional information on the rodeo is available online. Questions on the rodeo may be addressed to info@S03rodeo.com.

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.