Using the SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study Database to Improve Teen Driving Safety: Phase 1 Proof of Concept

The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16- to 19-year-olds than among any other age group. In 2016, 2,433 teens ages 16-19 in the United States died and nearly 300,000 were treated in emergency rooms for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes. Furthermore, per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16-19 are nearly three times more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash. The recently completed Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2) Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) offers a robust database of 3,100 study participants ages 16-98, recruited from six regions in the United States, and each participant was studied for a period of up to 2 years. Vehicles were instrumented with a data acquisition system that included accelerometers, cameras, GPS, forward radar, and vehicle network connections. Almost 500 drivers aged 16-19 (and over 650 drivers aged 20-24) were studied. The NDS offers an opportunity to conduct in-depth analyses of teen driver behavior, with known roadway characteristics, weather, and time of day. The objective of this research was to develop a research agenda for teen driver behavioral safety countermeasures using the SHRP2 NDS data.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4611

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $75000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project BTS-08

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Governors Highway Safety Association

  444 N. Capitol Street, NW, Suite 722
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, D.C.  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Retting, Richard

• Performing Organizations:

  TransAnalytics, LLC

  Quakertown, PA  United States  18951
• Principal Investigators:

  Staplin, Loren

• Start Date: 20190801
• Expected Completion Date: 20200801
• Actual Completion Date: 20200801

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Behavior; Databases; Driver performance; Highway safety; Teenage drivers
• Identifier Terms: Naturalistic Driving Study Database; Strategic Highway Research Program 2
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01674395
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project BTS-08
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 3 2018 9:40AM