Long-Term Stewardship of Safety Data from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Letter Report: May 3, 2013 (2013) / Chapter Skim
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2 This letter report responds to US DOT's recent request and provides consensus recommendations (shown in bold) within the context of the committee's statement of task.
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3 The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) provides technical coordination for the NDS data-collection sites and houses all the NDS data.
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4 The committee agrees that there is urgency in addressing these issues. We are fully supportive of the need for making the data available without delay, because a delay can cost lives.
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5 To allow sufficient time for completing the kinds of activities noted above, Phase 1 should last about 5 years. Governance planning should begin as soon as possible in 2014 or earlier while SHRP 2 is still in effect.
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6 maintenance of the data. 8 The owner also assesses the value of the results produced by the drivingsafety program for the purpose of guiding the development of access rules, pricing, and promotion of specific applications.
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7 Operation Following policies developed by the governance board, the operator provides the infrastructure and support necessary to house the data and make it available to researchers. This includes hardware and software, operation and maintenance, access control, and researcher support.
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8 The Volpe Center concluded that "Options 2 and 3 would require development of a new management structure, funding mechanism, and expertise on the part of the data owner," and that NAS ownership of the data (Option 1) would present "the easiest transition to a post-SHRP 2 program" because it relies upon the current institutional structure.
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9 Phase 1 Operator The governance board would be the appropriate entity to select the organization that can best fulfill the duties of the operator in Phase 1, including requirements to be specified in future funding agreements. This operator selection by the governance board would be a recommendation to the owner, which would enter into a contractual agreement with the operator.
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10 suggested that the future steward or owner of the driving-safety data may wish to consider a variety of approaches for access to the data, particularly remote access, which is employed to some extent by all the databases it considered. PHASE I PLANNING ASPECTS Phase 1 is essentially a developmental phase requiring an experimental attitude to define the basis for planning long-term policies, structures, and processes.
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11 do not change in proportion to the amount of data usage, such as computer hardware costs) and marginal costs (incremental costs associated with providing data access to the next researcher)
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