Big Data Hit the Road: The First Year of Use of the SHRP 2 Safety Databases

A featured story in the November-December 2015 TR News provides an overview of the data and the tools available to researchers during the Phase 1 experimental operational period of the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) naturalistic driving study data. The SHRP 2 naturalistic driving, unprecedented in size and scope, has produced unparalleled data on how drivers actually drive, what they are doing just before they crash or almost crash, and how they successfully avoid incidents.

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