Safety Implementation Update
AASHTO RAC Meeting,
July 22, 2014
Ann Brach, TRB, Director, SHRP 2
Debra Elston, Director of Corporate R&T, FHWA
What we’ll cover
•Safety Training & Analysis Center (STAC)
•STAC Tool Development Projects thru the
Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program
•Implementation Assistance Program (IAP) Safety
Proposals
•Phase 1 Implementation Activities
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FHWA Safety Training and
Analysis Center (STAC)
Office of Safety Research and Development
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Safety data sets
that are accessible
or reside at TF
Key Functions
Training
Technical Assistance
Time-series data
including sensitive
data
Secure Enclave
Secure facility
allows access to
sensitive data while
protecting privacy
Subject Matter Experts
And internal staff
State DOTs,
Researchers,
Graduate
Students and
Fellows
Tools
STAC Initial Service Goals
• Training and technical assistance for State
• Research opportunities for graduate students, fellows, and post docs to gain
• Support U.S. DOT research agenda
STAC Status
• Facility constructed & 80% equipped.
• New staff (Researcher and Data Analyst) selected.
• DOT Staff Training on NDS
• Session 1: July/August, 2014
• Session 2: September 2014
• DOT Staff Training on RID in planning
• Target date: After TRB Annual Meeting
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STAC Tool Development –
EAR Projects
Automated video decoding/data extraction
• Carnegie Melon Univ. (CMU), “Machine Learning for Automated Analysis of Large Volumes of
Highway Video”
• CMU, “DB-SAM: CMU Driver Behavioral Situational Awareness System”
• SRI, “DCode: A Comprehensive Automatic Coding System for Driver Behavior Analysis”
• Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison, “Quantifying Driver Distraction and Engagement”
Automated Identity Masking
• CMU, Video De-identification in the Automobile Environment”
• SRI, “DMask: A Reliable Identity Masking System for Driver Safety Video Data”
Calibration and Algorithm evaluation
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - “Computer Vision Measurements and Analysis to Support
Naturalistic Driving Study”
Coordinating Workshop for PIs was held on Friday July 11, 2014 at Keck Center
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Creation of the SHRP2 Safety
Task Force
• Safety Task Force met in March 2014
– Rudy Malfabon, Director, Nevada DOT, chair
– Sandra Larson, Iowa DOT, vice chair
• Multi-disciplinary team across AASHTO
Committee structure
• Liaisons from FHWA and TRB
• Proposed framework for implementation and
identified several research priorities
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IAP Approach for Safety
•
FHWA, AASHTO are pursuing a phased approach to reduce risk and cost to
states
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States accept responsibility to manage research, implement findings
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States encouraged to partner with researchers, particularly ones with IRB
process
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States must deliver the authorized research
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If the concept phase is successful, in-depth research phase with a large data
set may be authorized – Goal is to ultimately develop safety
countermeasures
•
30 applications received!
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Safety Data, Phase 1
• Approach recommended by NRC committee
• Objectives:
– Provide oversight and technical guidance
– Promote conditions for data availability
– Gain experience to support decisions for post-Phase 1
– Support transition to Phase 2, as appropriate
• Status:
– Executed MOU: FHWA, AASHTO, NHTSA, TRB; lays out
governance and management
– Negotiating cooperative agreement : FHWA and TRB;
provides funding, statement of work
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Safety Data Committees
• Safety Data Oversight Committee (not established)
– Leaders from sponsors, user groups, information tech
– Strategy, budget, work plans; data sharing policy; study
and evaluate data access methods and institutional
structures; identify decisions regarding future phases,
coordinate among partners, users and contractors
• First Expert Task Group (established and met)
– Highway safety, computer science, big data, spatial
information, data sharing, statistical protection of identity
– Draft SOWs for contractors; give input on performance
measures, tools, user activities emerging technologies, ...
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