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.

Second Release of Request for Qualifications for SHRP 2
Safety Project S07: In-Vehicle Driving Behavior Field Study
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Proposal Due Date: November 11, 2008

This second request seeks the qualifications of potential data collection contractors and the characteristics of sites in the southern United States that they recommend for the SHRP 2 large-scale naturalistic driving study focusing on driver behavior. Responses to an earlier RFQ did not include sites located in the southern portion of the country, so the current RFQ is focused on filling this gap. For this reason, responses to this RFQ will only be accepted for sites located in these states:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

View the RFQ at http://www.trb.org/TRBNet/ProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=2588.

Clarification on Data Access for the RFQ S07: In-Vehicle Driver Behavior Field Study
Posted August 21, 2008

The S07 contractor will download and initially store encrypted data. This is largely for data security reasons and to minimize the requirements on the S07 contractors for a secure data center. The S06 contractor (VTTI) will also provide data viewing software so the S07 contractors can view (but not save) the data on a DAS (unencrypted) whenever they need for troubleshooting, incidents, etc. The transmission of the data from the DAS to the S06 contractor will be encrypted for security. Once the S06 contractor has processed and added the data to the system, S07 contractors can access the unencrypted data over a secure network. S07 contractors would have to comply with all appropriate data privacy and security requirements before they could acquire a copy of the unencrypted data on their own system

Supplemental Information for the Project S07 Request for Qualifications: In-Vehicle Driver Behavior Field Study
Posted July 28, 2008

The following is supplemental information for the Project S07 Request for Qualifications: In-Vehicle Driver Behavior Field Study.

Two Ways to Register for the SHRP 2 Pre-Bid Conference for Data Acquisition System Procurement
Posted August 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. You are invited to participate in the conference either by attending in person or by joining a webinar. Both the physical conference and the webinar require registration. For further details, please view the following PDF: DAS Pre-Bid Conference.

SHRP 2 Safety Project S-03: Roadway Measurement System Evaluation Rodeo
Save the Dates
Planned Dates: September 14-20, 2008; Backup Dates: October 5-11, 2008
Posted September 12, 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).

The rodeo is planned to occur on September 14-20, 2008, and October 5-11, 2008, will serve as the backup 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.

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.