8-Truck Naturalistic Truck Driving Study

The 8-truck Naturalistic Truck Driving Study was an instrumented vehicle study in which 100 participants were recruited from four different trucking fleets across seven terminals. The primary purpose of the study was to investigate commercial motor vehicle risk by identifying safety-critical events. The study instrumentation was designed to be unobtrusive, study participants were given no special instructions, and experimenters were not present. Nine trucks were instrumented with a suite of sensors including forward radar, lateral and longitudinal accelerometers, gyro, GPS, access to the vehicle CAN, and multiple channels of compressed digital video. Collection rates for the various sensors ranged from 1Hz to 10Hz. This collection effort resulted in approximately 735,000 vehicles miles and 14,500 hours of driving data.