December 2013: CODES Overview

Presentation on the Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System (CODES) closeout delivered to the DOT|TRCC in December 2013.

December 2013: Crash-EMS Linkage

Presentation on Crash-EMS data linkages delivered to the DOT|TRCC in December 2013.

Data Integration Projects

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...

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...

FMCSA Declares South Carolina Trucking Companies and Commercial Driver to be Imminent Hazards to Public Safety

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FMCSA Declares South Carolina Trucking Companies and Commercial Driver to be Imminent Hazards to Public Safety

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared two Walterboro...

Los Angeles-based Bus Company “Its Good Promotion” Ordered Shut Down by FMCSA

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Los Angeles-based passenger carrier John Andrew Ciego, which does business as “Its Good Promotion,” USDOT No. 1518915, to immediately cease...

U.S. Department of Transportation Extends Cooperative Research Program with Automotive Industry to Cut Drunk Driving on U.S. Roads

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today announced a five-year extension of its cooperative agreement with the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety (ACTS), comprised of 15 automakers, to continue researching advanced alcohol...

U.S. Department of Transportation Announces ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ Holiday Crackdown

WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland today kicked off the annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” winter holiday crackdown on drunk and drugged driving, along with representatives from local law enforcement,...

Traffic Records Coordinating Committee

The DOT|TRCC’s mission is to maximize the overall quality of safety data and analysis based on State traffic records data across all six core systems: crash, vehicle, driver, roadway, citation & adjudication, and injury surveillance. The US DOT|TRCC advances this mission with a dual focus.

Internally, the DOT|TRCC works to ensure that member Operating Administrations provide coordinated, effective, and efficient support for State traffic records systems and analysis through their outreach, training, technical assistance, and grant programs.

Distracted Driving Campaign

Under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, the Department of Transportation launched an aggressive national campaign in 2009 to end the dangerous practice of distracted driving, and specifically texting and cell phone use behind the wheel. Today, 39 states, D.C., Guam,...