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To assist States in evaluating their consistency with the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC), NHTSA and GHSA have developed this methodology for mapping the data collected on PARs and the data entered and maintained on crash databases to the data elements and attributes in the...
Per Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act requirements, all States must report serious injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes. Under the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Safety Performance Management Measures Final Rule (23 CFR 490) and the National...
The DOT|TRCC's State Traffic Records Coordinating Committee Noteworthy Practices report documents effective State TRCC managment practices. The report drew upon original research, interviews, and case studies to uncover and validate different tactics to improve the function and capacity of State...
NHTSA has released a number of Traffic Safety Fact Sheets for 2012. Topics include: young drivers, bicylists & other cyclists, pedestrians, teens and distracted driving, State alcohol-impaired driving estimates, and a 2012 overview.
2012 “Overview” Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (DOT HS 812...
There’s still time to take part in DOT’s Data Innovation Challenge! Learn more about how you can create tools that address systemic challenges like safety, access, and congestion using publicly-available datasets.
For more on the challenge, click here.
GHSA’s Traffic Records Training for State Highway Safety Office Leadership is now live online. Developed for new State officials and managers, the course explores the importance of traffic safety data and resources to help improve traffic records.
For more on this course, click here...
At the February 27, 2014, meeting of the DOT|TRCC FMCSA presented on their ongoing research into crash weighting, The agency hopes this effort will determine how crash weighting might improve the agency’s ability to identify high crash-risk motor carriers.
For the research plan, click...
Presentation on the Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System (CODES) closeout delivered to the DOT|TRCC in December 2013.
Presentation on Crash-EMS data linkages delivered to the DOT|TRCC in December 2013.
At the December 2013 DOT|TRCC full session, two presentations were delivered by NHTSA’s Susan McHenry and John Kindelberger on State crash-injury integration projects and the Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) project wrap-up respectively. Both were very informative and...