History Highlights – SHRP 2’s Naturalistic Driving Study and the Power of Fundamental Research

From its first meeting in June 1999, the Committee for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program (Future SHRP) knew that it wanted something big in the field of highway safety research. For what would become SHRP 2, the Future SHRP committee recommended that highway safety needed fundamental research into the causes of crashes. To learn the whole story, check out the latest release in the TRB History Highlights series. As part of the Centennial Celebration, TRB has initiated the History Highlights seri…