State Traffic Safety Information Systems Strategic Planning: A Guide for the States
On August 10, 2005, the President signed the new surface transportation reauthorization bill, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users or SAFETEA-LU. This legislation contains what is perhaps the most significant endorsement ever of the need for reliable, timely, accurate, and accessible traffic safety data at the local, State, and national levels. There are over 30 sections within the bill that will, in some form, require the collection, management, and distribution or analysis of safety data by local, State or Federal agencies. In order to assure that the required data is properly, efficiently, and effectively collected, well managed, and available to support these traffic safety programs, each State should have in place a comprehensive plan for the improvement of all the safety data systems within that State. This traffic safety information systems strategic plan, developed with input from the data collectors, managers, and users, can provide a guide for the most cost-effective use of available resources with the maximum value of the resulting traffic safety information systems environment in terms of data accuracy, reliability, timeliness, inter-operability, and accessibility. This document provides an overview of the strategic planning process. The end product of this process should be a plan that achieves the following: (1) a comprehensive multiyear plan covering the State’s Traffic Safety Information System that is approved by the States’ Traffic Records Coordinating Committee (TRCC); (2) addresses existing deficiencies, how they were identified, and priorities for corrective action; (3) identifies performance-based measures and matrices for measuring progress, including benchmarks; (4) indicates what funds will be used and how they will be used to address the goals and deficiencies of the plan; (5) establishes timelines and accountability for components of the plan; (6) integrates State data needs and goals with the State’s highway safety plan; and (7) the plan’s activities should improve the timeliness, accuracy, completeness, uniformity, integration, and accessibility of State highway safety data.
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 2006-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Photos;
- Pagination: 16p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accessibility; Accuracy; Crash data; Data collection; Data quality; Financing; Highway safety; Information retrieval; Information systems; Interoperability; Performance measurement; Reliability; States; Strategic planning; Traffic data; Traffic safety
- Identifier Terms: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01050461
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-810 563
- Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: May 31 2007 7:29AM