“100 Car” Study:
A key to the development of effective crash countermeasures is an understanding of pre-crash causal and contributing factors. This research effort was initiated to provide an unprecedented level of detail concerning driver performance, behavior, environment, driving context and other factors that were associated with critical incidents, near crashes and crashes for 100 drivers across a period of one year. A primary goal was to provide vital exposure and pre-crash data necessary for understanding causes of crashes, supporting the development and refinement of crash avoidance countermeasures, and estimating the potential of these countermeasures to reduce crashes and their consequences.

Databases from the 100-Car study are available for public use on the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute website: http://www.access.vtti.vt.edu/.

• Shane B. McLaughlin, Jonathan M. Hankey, Thomas A. Dingus, and Sheila G. Klauer (June 2009) Development of an FCW Algorithm Evaluation Methodology With Evaluation of Three Alert Algorithms Final Report DOT HS 811 145
  
  
• Fitch, G.M.; Lee, S.E.; Klauer, S. G., Hankey, J.; Sudweeks, J., and Dingus, T. (2009) Analysis of Lane-Change Crashes and Near-Crashes DOT HS 811 147
  
  
• Klauer, S. G., Dingus, T. A., Neale, V. L., Sudweeks, J. D., and Ramsey, D. J.(2009) Comparing Real-World Behaviors of Drivers With High versus Low Rates of Crashes and Near-Crashes DOT HS 811 091
  
  
• McLaughlin,S.B., Hankey,J.M., Klauer, S.G., and Dingus, T.A.(2009) Contributing Factors to Run-Off-Road Crashes and Near-Crashes: Final Report DOT HS 811 079
  
  
• Lee, S. E., Llaneras E., Klauer S., Sudweeks J. (2007) Analyses of Rear-End Crashes and Near-Crashes in the 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study to Support Rear-Signaling Countermeasure Development DOT HS 810 846
  
  
• Klauer, S. G., Dingus, T. A., Neale, V. L., Sudweeks, J., Ramsey, (2006) The Impact of Driver Inattention on Near-Crash/Crash Risk: An Analysis Using the 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study Data DOT HS 810 594
  
  
• Dingus, T. A., Klauer, S. G., Neale, V. L., Petersen, A., Lee, S. E., Sudweeks, J., Perez, M. A., Hankey, J., Ramsey, D., Gupta, S., Bucher, C., Doerzaph, Z. R., Jermeland, J., and Knipling, R. R.(2006) The 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study, Phase II - Results of the 100-Car Field Experiment DOT HS 810 593
  
  
• Vicki L. Neale, Thomas A. Dingus, Sheila G. Klauer, Jeremy Sudweeks, Michael Goodman (2005) An Overview of The 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study and Findings
  
  
• Neale,V.L, Klauer, S.G., Knipling,R.R., Dingus,T.A., Holbrook, G.T., Petersen, A. The 100 Car Naturalistic Driving Study: Phase 1- Experimental Design (2002) DOT HS 809 536