FOTware: a modular, customizable software for analysis of multiple-source fieldoperational- test data

Field operational test (FOT) studies popularity is increasing in the US, Europe, and Japan as large-scale projects such as SHRPII, euroFOT, and Smartway, respectively show. This increase in popularity is supported by continuously improved logging technology which favors collection of multiple-source data (from vehicle CAN, cameras, GPS, and eye tracking) over longer periods of time. Thus the huge amount of data typically associated with FOTs is becoming even more gigantic and promise to serve many new different types of data analysis. A systematical viewing of the FOT dataset is impossible due to data size, however the need to plot and visualize data synchronized among the multiple-data sources is still fundamental in many occasions. In fact, critical and specific segments of data need to be visualized both to assure quality and to take a close look into critical events such as crashes and near-crashes. The increasing number of available data sources also creates new requirements on the integration of information into a human-friendly and highly-usable software.