Call for Standards Technical Committee Volunteers

The recently created Crash Data Collection and Analysis (CDCA) Committee is actively seeking new members.

The CDCA committee is responsible for developing and maintaining SAE standards, recommended practices, and information reports related to safety-relevant data across the crash timeline, including pre-crash, crash, and post-crash phases of impact.

The committees under the CDCA will consider methods that define, develop, and evaluate real-world crash data that relates to passenger and heavy motor vehicles that travel on public roads. Data sources include epidemiological databases (e.g., NASS/GES, FARS), field investigations (e.g., scene, vehicle, witness), vehicle data archives (e.g., Controller Area Network bus (CAN), event data recorders (EDR), naturalistic driving recorders), and infrastructure data archives (e.g., cellular, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, dedicated short-range communications (DSRC)).

The CDCA committees consider traditional and advanced data collection methods and operational definitions as well as robust analytic methods based on either a single data source or fusion of data types (e.g., epidemiological, field investigation, naturalistic, experimental). The committees may also facilitate applicable discussion and develop work products (SAE standards, recommended practices, information reports) relating to the collection and analysis of crash data in areas such as policy issues (e.g., privacy), harmonization, or other data-related issues that may support the development and enhancement of crash avoidance and crashworthiness countermeasures.

The CDCA is seeking active members interested in serving within three initial committees including: Data Collection & Archiving, Data Analysis, and Cross-Cutting Issues. Members will contribute to the committee's mission to develop consensus documents with the ultimate goal of improving driver safety through ensuring crash data is collected and analyzed using robust methods.

CDCA Structure:

• SAE Technical Standards Board (TSB)
• SAE Motor Vehicle Council (MVC)
• SAE Vehicle Safety Systems Group
• CDCA Steering Committee
• Cross-Cutting Subcommittee
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• Terminology Task Force
• Ethics Task Force
• International Harmonization Task Force
• Collection and Archiving Subcommittee
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  • Protocols Task Force
  • Measures Task Force
  • Equipment Task Force
• Collection and Archiving Subcommittee
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• Applicable Statistics Task Force
• Exposure Task Force
• Surrogates Task Force

Committee Participation Request

For additional information and to become a member, please contact Nikki Ameredes, SAE Standards Specialist at nameredes@sae.org