The Third SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium

The Third SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium, held July 17-18 at the National Academies' Keck Center in Washington, DC, gathered nearly a hundred safety researchers from the U. S. and abroad to review the study design and data collection methods for the Safety research program.

Kenneth L. Campbell, the SHRP 2 Chief Program Officer, opened the symposium on Thursday, July 17. The keynote speaker, Christine Branche, the Acting Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, provided information about the organization's own safety research.

International panelists gave updates on the progress of naturalistic driving studies in their respective countries. European updates were provided from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada. Each of the four research teams for Project S01 presented updates. Speakers included Gary Davis, Paul Jovanis, Lidia Kostyniuk and Paul Green, and Shauna Hallmark.

Research questions were addressed in a presentation by Dan McGehee for Project S02. John Hunt gave a presentation for Project S03, and a separate presentation was given by Anita Vandervalk for Task 2 of the same project. Tom Dingus presented progress in Project S05.

Future projects S04, S06, and S07 were covered in Friday's closing presentation.

The presentations can be viewed by visiting the SHRP 2 website: http://www.trb.org/shrp2/SHRPII_Safety.asp