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Using the SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study Database to Improve Teen Driving Safety: Phase 1 Proof of Concept (BTS-08)

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Federal Research Projects
January 1, 2019

This study assessed the potential of mining the vast data resources resulting from the second Strategic Highway Safety Program’s (SHRP2) Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) to enhance the safety of teen drivers.

Project Overview

Naturalistic driving data extends our understanding of risky teen driving behavior beyond what can be gleaned from crash analyses, in a number of important ways. It offers the potential to examine behavior on a continuous basis, instead of being limited to an event-based ‘snapshot’; and, critically, it provides an objective record of behavior in contrast to the subjective reports of drivers or after-the-fact inferences about risky behavior that been entered on a police report.

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