Aerial view of roundabout traffic

From Human Driving
to Human-Like Driving

We capture how humans actually drive — at scale, from the sky — to build the baselines that make automated driving safer, smoother, and more human.

By the Numbers

One of the world's largest aerial naturalistic driving datasets, capturing real-world traffic interactions from a bird's-eye perspective.

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Flight Duration
Continuous aerial video capture using DJI drones across China
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Trajectories
Individual vehicle trajectories with rich kinematic parameters
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Locations
Covering major cities across Northeast, North, Central, East, South, and West China
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Road Types
All road types across structured roads, urban roads, and parking facilities

Two Baselines for Automated Driving

Automated driving needs two reference lines — one from the edge, one from the everyday. Between them lies where intelligent vehicles should operate.

Safety Baseline

Derived from field testing and regulations (UNECE R157, ISO 34502). Captures extreme scenarios — the hard floor that must never be breached.

Human-Like Baseline

Derived from naturalistic driving data. Captures how millions of drivers actually behave in 99%+ of daily scenarios — the soft reference that defines comfort and efficiency.

Between these two lines lies where automated driving should be — safe by design, human by reference.
Safety Sense of Security Comfort Traffic Efficiency Energy Efficiency

Naturalistic Driving Dataset

Bird's-eye view trajectory data with comprehensive kinematic parameters, enabling scenario extraction aligned with ISO 34502.

Community Exit
a. Community Exit
Urban Road
b. Urban Road
Intersection
c. Intersection
On-ramp
d. On-ramp
Expressway
e. Expressway
Off-ramp
f. Off-ramp
Roundabout
g. Roundabout
Construction Zone
h. Construction Zone
Icy Road
i. Icy & Snowy Road
Parking Lot
j. Parking Lot

A typical urban commute — our data covers every scenario from departure to arrival

Trajectory Parameters

  • Position (x, y) & velocity (vx, vy)
  • Acceleration & heading angle
  • Lane ID & driving direction
  • Surrounding vehicle IDs
  • Safety metrics: minDHW, minTHW, minTTC
  • Lane change events & traveled distance

Road Scenarios

  • Highway mainline & ramps
  • Urban intersections & roundabouts
  • Mixed traffic zones
  • Adverse conditions (rain, snow, ice)
  • Construction zones
  • Long-tail high-risk interactions

Data Pipeline

  • DJI drone 4K aerial capture
  • AI-based detection & tracking
  • Homography coordinate transform
  • Trajectory smoothing & validation
  • ISO 34502 scenario tagging
  • 3DGS 3D reconstruction

Open Datasets

Lowering the barrier for naturalistic driving research. Free for non-commercial academic use.

AD4CHE dataset

AD4CHE

400+ institutions applied

Highway and expressway congestion scenarios. Rich car-following and lane-change interactions under constrained traffic flow.

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SinD dataset

SinD

Signalized Intersections

Trajectories of vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists at signalized intersections with traffic light phase data.

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RinD dataset

RinD

Roundabout Interactions

Roundabout trajectory data from 20+ locations across 5 cities, with 21,760+ trajectories and 4,000+ traffic violations.

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VRUD dataset

VRUD

Vulnerable Road Users

Vehicle-VRU interaction dataset with 13,418 trajectories, 87% VRU proportion, and 4,000+ interaction scenarios.

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Applications

One answer — naturalistic driving data — five directions of impact.

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Product Development

Replace guesswork with data-driven thresholds for ADAS/AD system design and parameter tuning.

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Human-Like Evaluation

P25–P75 percentile baselines from 10 million trajectories — not one expert's opinion. Scene-differentiated, statistically grounded.

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Standards & Compliance

Fill the quantitative gaps in current standards with representative naturalistic parameters (P5–P95).

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Accident Research

Naturalistic data as "denominator" + accident data as "numerator" — computing real-world risk exposure rates.

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Vehicle Optimization

Deploy human driving behavior models as continuous on-board reference systems for real-time performance assessment.

About

With the vision of "Scenario-driven Intelligent Transportation and Automated Driving Safety," DRIVEResearch aims to provide scenario data-related products and solutions for users in the fields of intelligent transportation and intelligent connected vehicles, thereby promoting overall traffic safety.

DRIVEResearch is located in the JLU-Smart Industrial Park, Changchun, China. The main R&D team originates from the AD Safety Joint Lab at Jilin University, and its primary achievements are derived from multiple scientific research projects, such as "Dataset Development and Application of Safety Critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles" and "Application and Industrialization of Low-altitude Information Acquisition Technology Based on Aerial Vehicles."

Standards & Expertise

  • ISO 21448 — SOTIF
  • ISO 26262 — Functional Safety
  • ISO 34502 — Scenario-Based Testing
  • UN R157 — ALKS Regulation
  • GB/T — China National Standards

Contact

Interested in our data or solutions? Let's talk.

Location

9A-2, Digital Technology Incubation Base,
Jingyue High-tech Zone, Changchun, China

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