SHRP 2 Safety Data Student Paper Competition 2017-2019

TRB's Transportation Research Circular E-C243: SHRP 2 Safety Data Student Paper Competition 2017-2019 contains student papers that were selected from a competition to promote use of the SHRP 2 Safety Data. A call for abstracts was issued in October 2017 to graduate students across the country, soliciting innovative ideas for using the data. The Review Panel for the SHRP 2 Safety Data Student Paper Competition selected eight students to conduct their research. These students subsequently received a data export, conducted their analysis, and were invited to attend the TRB Annual Meeting in January 2019 to present their results at a poster session. The students then developed research papers from their analyses.

Four of these papers are included in this e-circular. They examine interchange ramps, a market basket approach to analyzing safety data, risky secondary driving behavior, and pollutant emissions. The second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) is a partnership between TRB, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, and AASHTO.