Design of the In-Vehicle Driving Behavior and Crash Risk Study

This report from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, provides a summary of the key aspects of the planning effort supporting the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study. The study will collect data—on the order of 1 petabyte (1,000 terabytes)—on “naturalistic,” or real-world, driving behavior over a two-year period beginning in fall 2010. The objective of the study is to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities by finding ways to prevent collisions and reduce their severity.