Connected Vehicle Infrastructure University Transportation Center
VTTI joined more than 100 companies, organizations and government agencies at the 2015 Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities in Chicago, IL. Exhibitors presented their latest products, services, programs and/or publications in highway safety. Lifesavers is the largest gathering of highway safety professionals in the United States and is dedicated to reducing the tragic toll of deaths and injuries on our nation’s roadways.
CVI-UTC researchers provided information about naturalistic driving studies and CVI research at the VTTI booth, including a bicycle prototype outfitted with data collection equipment from the CVI-UTC project Bicycle Naturalistic Data Collection. VTTI pioneered the naturalistic diving study (NDS) method, which uses an unobtrusive suite of multiple cameras, radars, accelerometers, and GPS to help identify the greatest risks transportation users face in the real-world environment. To date, more than 25 NDSs have been conducted by VTTI using more than 4,000 instrumented vehicles. The institute now houses nearly 90 percent of continuous naturalistic driving data in the world. VTTI NDSs help researchers, the private sector, and governmental agencies assess crash causal and contributing factors in an effort to develop effective crash countermeasures. VTTI naturalistic data currently comprise nearly 1,500 crashes/minor collisions and 10,000 near-crashes.