Safety Conferences
Selected presentations from the previous six Safety research symposia are available below.
Presentations Available: Sixth SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium
July 14–15, 2011
Posted July 22, 2011
Presentations are available from the Sixth Annual SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium, which was held on July 14–15, 2011, in Washington, D. C. The presentations update progress in the study of driving behavior and discuss the plans for and challenges to data access under protected conditions. Presentations are available on the following page.
Presentations from 2010 SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium
Posted July 27, 2010
Current and potential contractors and interested members of the public
learned about progress in SHRP 2 safety projects at the Fifth Annual
SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium held on July 13–14, 2010, in
Washington, D.C. Presentations from the symposium are available on the following page.
Presentations from 2009 SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium
Posted August 26, 2009
The fourth SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium, held July 23–24 at the
National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C., gathered 110 safety
researchers from the United States and other countries—including
Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, China, and South Africa—to review and
discuss the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Behavior Study, roadway data
measurement, international activities related to naturalistic driving
studies, and other SHRP 2 Safety projects.
The agenda and select presentations are available.
SHRP 2 Safety Chief Program Officer Ken Campbell began the symposium by giving and update of the SHRP 2 Safety program.
Trent Victor, a representative from SAFER in Sweden, gave a presentation on international data sharing.
Hongbo Wu of China presented information on their road safety situation.
Presentations were
also given on the progress that project S01 has made creating data
analysis methods by the project’s four researchers: Paul Jovanis of Pennsylvania State University, Tim Gordon of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Gary Davis of the University of Minnesota, and Shauna Hallmark of Iowa State University.
Dan McGehee
of the University of Iowa gave a presentation on the work of project
S01: Integration of Analysis Methods and Development of Analysis Plan.
Charles Fay,
SHRP 2 Safety Senior Program Officer, gave an update on the status of
project S03: Roadway Measurement System Evaluation and S04: Roadway
Information Database.
Ken Campbell
made the closing presentation, which included information on the
naturalistic driving field study, data protection, and data sharing.
Presentations from 2008 SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium
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 2007 SHRP 2 Safety Research 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.
Presentations from 2006 SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium
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.