State Crash Forms Catalogue 29 th Intl. Traffic Records Forum Session 36 July 16, 2003 Angie Schmit - TSASS

Crash Forms Catalog An on-going effort for almost 10 years by NHTSA Historically done as printed book Book format had limitations… Changed to electronic catalogue in 2000.

Crash Forms Catalog Contains: (or is adding) State (and some local) crash forms as images Basic information on crash data Police Office Coding Manuals

Crash Forms Catalog – Adding Crash Facts Books – Adding data dictionary information – Expanding crash data summary pages

How You Can Help… Review what is on file for your State Identify any missing information Submit current contact info, forms, documents that you may have Ask the proper “contact” for your state to connect with TSASS

How You Can Help… Provide originals of crash forms, and templates Submit your Police Officer Coding Manual (*) Submit the Data Dictionary for your Crash Data System (*) Submit a copy of your Facts Book, or link to your on-line Facts Book. (*) * - Electronic version (word, PDF) if possible

We really need… We have not identified a viable source of crash forms information for the following states… Puerto Rico Alaska California North Carolina

How You Can Help… Submit information / documents to: Angie Schmit TSASS 1213 Stringtown Road Grove City, OH

Traffic Records Team NHTSA Web Sites

State Crash Forms Catalog Traffic Records Systems Inventory Unofficial (working) Web Sites

If You Have Questions… or Contributions… Angie Schmit – Traffic Safety Analysis Systems & Services, Inc Stringtown Road Grove City, OH

Highway Safety Exposure Database 29 th Intl. Traffic Records Forum Session 36 July 16, 2003 Shaun Russell - TSASS

Highway Safety Exposure Online repository of highway exposure data Sponsored by NHTSA in 2002

Systems contains aggregate data for all exposure components including: Census Data Highway Travel & Mileage Vehicle Registration Driver Licensing Crash Counts

Exposure Data Collected for All States & US Territories National State County –Parishes if you like it hot –Boroughs if you like it cold Large Cities –Population over 50,000

Sources of Data Government Websites Shared Data files from States Fact Books Other USDOT Agencies

Intended Audience Anyone interested in Basic Traffic Data –Traffic Engineers in small, rural counties –MPO’s creating comparison with other Large Cities –High School Students & Teachers –Many of the people in that tall stack of data request for the State Programmer –Etc.

Data Center Exposure Data is accessible to general public via the Data Center. Navigation starts by selection of a State

Data Center (cont.) Navigation allows user to select any available jurisdiction from a given state Once a jurisdiction is selected, the data may be accessed

Website allows you to query aggregate data directly

Select from a list of pre-defined reports

If You Have Questions… or Contributions… Shaun Russell – Traffic Safety Analysis Systems & Services, Inc Stringtown Road Grove City, OH

Traffic Records Systems Inventory 29 th Intl. Traffic Records Forum Session 36 July 16, 2003 Shaun Russell - TSASS

What is it? A survey of basic information about various traffic records systems within a given state Used by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to establish a contact database for the NHTSA Traffic Records & Driver Licensing Team

Various TRI systems include: Governor’s Highway Safety Office State Traffic Records Coordinating Committee Traffic Crash Data Crash Statistics Commercial Vehicle Data FARS Data Traffic Citation & Conviction Data Roadway Data EMS Run Data Injury Surveillance Data State GIS Data Driver Licensing Data Vehicle Registration CODES Linked Data

Website allows user to navigate by System Name or By State

Paper Survey forms sent annually or submit data electronically

We really need… As yet, we have not received any information on Traffic Record Systems from the following states… Arizona Delaware Hawaii Iowa Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Oregon Rhode Island Virginia Wyoming New Hampshire

If You Have Questions… or Contributions… Sherry Kundlas – Traffic Safety Analysis Systems & Services, Inc Stringtown Road Grove City, OH