Improving Safety Data Collection, Access, and Analysis for California’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
This report provides a summary of a peer exchange held September 28-29, 2010 in Sacramento, California, sponsored by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the California Highway Patrol (CHP), and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The report also includes recommendations to improve traffic safety data systems, which are used in addressing issues related to various Challenge Areas in California’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). California’s goals for the peer exchange were (1) to review the State’s current data systems and (2) to evaluate opportunities to better address data needs for California’s SHSP. The peer exchange convened safety stakeholders from California’s Traffic Records Coordinating Committee/SHSP Challenge Area 16 (TRCC/CA 16) team to explore improvements to California’s traffic safety data systems. Twenty-one members of the TRCC/CA 16 team attended, including representatives from Caltrans, OTS, CHP, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), California Department of Public Health (DPH), and the California Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA). The event provided an opportunity for stakeholders to learn from selected peers with model traffic records systems, including the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NC DOT), the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (MI DTMB), and the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC). Criteria for selecting peers included demonstration of successful collaboration with safety partners, including State DOTs, law enforcement, local governments, emergency medical services (EMS), and public health providers. The peer exchange discussions and presentations focused on the following topics: National perspective on traffic safety data systems issues and challenges; Current California data systems, including crash data processing; Peer States’ noteworthy experiences with traffic data records; and Recommended next steps to improve the coordination of data systems for reduced traffic fatalities and overall safer roadways in California.
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Corporate Authors:
Federal Highway Administration
Office of Safety, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 2010-9-28
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Photos;
- Pagination: 15p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash data; Data analysis; Data collection; Recommendations; Stakeholders; State departments of transportation; Strategic planning; Traffic safety
- Identifier Terms: California Department of Transportation; Strategic Highway Safety Plan
- Uncontrolled Terms: Peer exchange
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01613831
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA‐SA‐11‐35
- Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Oct 21 2016 4:35PM