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Traffic Records

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FMCSA Data Quality Grant Successes

The winter issue of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Guardian magazine (Vol. 20, Issue 4) featured a piece written by Scott Valentine, Data Quality Program Manager with FMCSA’s Analysis Division. The article details the various ways States have utilized funding from FMCSA’s Safety Data...

DOT|TRCC Data Systems and Attribute Icons

To mark the launch of NHTSA’s revamped traffic records assessment program, the agency developed two sets of icons that illustrate the six core data systems and six key performance attributes critical to traffic records. Both sets of icons available for download and use in web or print...

DOT|TRCC News Archives

DOT Traffic Records Coordinating Committee news items:

2018-02-07: Updated ANSI D.16 Manual on Classification of Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes Released 

2017-03-23: SHRP-2, State Training and Analysis Center, & DOT Studies

2017-03-23: Data Governance & Data...

Traffic Records Performance Measures

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released this document of 61 performance meansures are designed to provide traffic records professionals with the information necessary to develop and deploy quantifiable performance measures appropriate for their traffic record systems....

Data Systems Guidance

The DOT|TRCC’s modal members have developed a variety of guidance documents and voluntary standards that can help States improve the management, quality, and analysis of their traffic safety data.

NHTSA: Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC)The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria...

Traffic Records Assessments

The traffic records assessment is a NHTSA-supported independent peer review of a State’s traffic records system covering the collection, management, and analysis of the six core data systems: crash, driver, vehicle, roadway, citation and adjudication, and injury surveillance. When this...

NHTSA Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory

This updated Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory gives States information on the contents, capabilities, and data quality of an effective traffic records system by describing an ideal system that supports high-quality decisions and leads to cost-effective improvements in highway and...

Traffic Records Coordinating Committee Data System and Attribute Icons

The critical focus of traffic safety data improvement efforts can generally be found at the intersection of the six key data systems (crash, driver, vehicle, roadway, citation and adjudication, and injury surveillance) and the six primary performance attributes (timeliness, completeness,...