Design of the in-vehicle driving behavior and crash risk study. In support of the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study.

This final report provides a summary of the key aspects of the planning effort supporting the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS), which focuses on Safety Project S06 (Technical Coordination and Independent Quality Assurance for Field Study) and Safety Project S07 (In-Vehicle Driving Behavior Field Study). The integration of these projects with Safety Project S04A (Roadway Information Database Development and Technical Coordination and Quality Assurance of the Mobile Data Collection Project) and Safety Project S04B (Mobile Data Collection) is also discussed. The objective of the SHRP 2 Safety Project S05: Design of the In-Vehicle Driving Behavior and Crash Risk Study (Study Design) was to design the SHRP 2 NDS, which will collect data–on the order of 1 petabyte (1,000 terabytes)–on “naturalistic,” or real-world, driving behavior over a 2-year period beginning in fall 2010. (Author/publisher)