Safety

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 project activity.

To learn about participating in the driving study, please go to www.shrp2.nds.us.

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Conferences (presentations from Safety research symposium)
Naturalistic Driving Study (hub of information on the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study)
Publications (recent Safety publication)
Webinars (upcoming and recorded webinars)

Conferences

SHRP 2 Safety Symposium and Workshop: July 11–12, 2013
Posted April 29, 2013

The Eighth Annual SHRP 2 Safety Symposium will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2013, 8:30 AM–5:00 PM, at the Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 Fifth St NW, Washington, D.C. On Friday, July 12, SHRP 2 will also hold a half-day ‘hands-on’ user workshop, which will focus on working with data that will be available on the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study data sharing website. This website, which will be continually updated throughout the study, will start to contain data by July 2013. Register now at http://trbsymposium.eventbrite.com/. If you have any questions, please contact Charles Fay at cfay@nas.edu.

Selected presentations from the past six research symposia are available on the Safety Conferences page.

Naturalistic Driving Study

Naturalistic Driving Study Webpage
Posted October 29, 2010

The SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) will allow us to record and study the driving behavior of a large sample of drivers in their personal vehicles. More information about the SHRP 2 NDS (including objectives, expected products, duration, budget, publications, and external websites) can be found on the SHRP 2 NDS page.

Publications

Initial Analyses from the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study: Addressing Driver Performance and Behavior in Traffic Safety (SHRP 2 Report)
Posted April 8, 2013

SHRP 2 is conducting the largest and most comprehensive naturalistic driving study (NDS) to date. In parallel, the Roadway Information Database (RID) will contain detailed roadway data collected on approximately 12,000 centerline miles of roads in and around the six regional study sites plus additional information about crash histories, traffic and weather conditions, work zones, and active safety campaigns in the study areas. In 2012, four analysis contracts were awarded under SHRP 2 Project S08 (Analysis of the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study Data) to study specific research questions, such as using the early SHRP 2 NDS and RID data to study lane departures on two-lane rural roads. In Phase 1, which concluded in December 2012, each contractor obtained an initial set of data, tested and refined their research plan, and developed a detailed plan for their full analyses. This report summarizes each contractor's Phase 1 work.

Safety Fact Sheet
Posted March 19, 2013

First National Study of Driving Behavior Will Yield Safety Benefits for Decades

The SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study: Addressing Driver Performance and Behavior in Traffic Safety
Posted January 17, 2013

With an expected two petabytes of data on more than 2,300 participants, the SHRP 2 naturalistic driving study (NDS) is the largest study of its kind ever conducted. This article, which appeared in the September–October 2012 issue of TR News*, describes the SHRP 2 NDS. It includes an overview of the participants, the vehicles, the data acquisition system, the roadway information database, data analysis, and data access.

* TR News is copyright, National Academy of Sciences.

Technical Summaries Collection for SHRP 2 Safety Products
Posted November 20, 2012

Our 4-8 page Project Briefs summarize the issues addressed in a research project, describe the approach to meeting the research objective, and introduce the resulting products. These technical summaries will be published for every SHRP 2 project as the final reports are accepted for publication. The three existing Project Briefs for SHRP 2 Safety research have been collected in the following PDF. Project Briefs are available on the Publications page of the SHRP 2 website.

Earlier publications are available on the SHRP 2 Publications Page.

Webinars

Recorded webinars are available on the Recorded Safety Webinars page.