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1Executive Summary This final report describes the second Strategic Highway Research Program naturalistic driving study (SHRP 2 NDS) Safety Project S07 (In-Vehicle Driving Behavior Field Study)
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2Recruiting Volunteer Drivers Recruiting participants for the NDS turned out to be the most challenging part of the study. The study design was intended to provide a balanced sample of drivers by age and gender.
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3Managing the Participants and Fleet of Equipped Vehicles Participant management included answering questions about incentive payments, scheduling vehicle maintenance appointments, helping with questions from the participants' garage mechanics should they arise during routine non-NDS maintenance, and servicing activities. Fleet maintenance activities included care and upkeep of the instrumentation in the participant's vehicle, replacing a data drive that had reached its storage capacity, and repairing damaged NDS equipment.
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4• The study centers were aware of 188 crashes that were experienced by the instrumented vehicles in their fleets. None of these crashes involved a fatality or a severe injury.
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