Are you comfortable driving a box truck? If so, researchers are recruiting participants for a two-hour driver research study.

Security during the transportation of radioactive and other hazardous materials is an important consideration. Such materials that may pose danger to the public and/or national security must be transported in a safe manner mechanically, but also must be transported by security-conscious and trusted drivers.

It is critical, therefore, to ensure that the driver sent out with the load is the same driver that arrives at the designated destination with the load, ensuring proper chain of custody is maintained. One viable approach to verify driver authenticity is to analyze driver behavior and develop models that can identify specific drivers, or when a driver has changed.

Such data needed to develop these models can be extracted from the J1939 CAN data, which includes wheel-based vehicle speed, engine speed, brake pedal position and cruise control settings. Additional data can be feasibly collected, such as GPS position and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data (i.e., roll, pitch, yaw). Collectively, this data can be used to model driver behavior, and specific driver habits that can be used to uniquely identify drivers.

What do the investigators hope to learn from the project? Use data already collected by vehicles to uniquely identify drivers based on their driver behaviors.

Those who would like to participate can fill out an interest form: https://forms.office.com/r/mA0uyq0hSp.

Participants will receive a $20 gift card. Questions can be sent to Trevor Lanigan at Trevor.Lanigan@colostate.edu.