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Title:

A Prototype System for Collection of Safety Data from Police Crash Reports

Accession Number:

01623784

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Police crash reports include useful additional information that is not available in crash summary records. This information may include police sketches and narratives and is often needed for detailed site-specific safety analysis. In addition, some agencies also routinely review police reports to correct miscoded and missing crash types. As a result, safety analysts often spend much of their time to review police reports on a regular basis. However, reviewing police crash reports and recording review information in Florida has not been an easy process. This paper introduces a newly developed web-based system designed for the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to facilitate the process of reviewing police crash reports and recording review results. The system allows projects to be set up for specific study locations and target review questions. The review questions can be set up for different data entry formats, including dropdown list, checkbox, radio button, single and comment box. A user-friendly interface is provided to allow the users to review the police reports specified in a project and to save the review results together with their respective crash records in the database. The results can then be downloaded to a local drive for further safety analysis. The system reduces the police report review processing time by multiple folds and helps cut down on the project backlogs at FDOT safety offices. The system can serve as a prototype and be adapted for other transportation agencies to facilitate their review of police crash reports and collection of safety data.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB10 Standing Committee on Transportation Safety Management.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01430

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Gan, Albert
Alluri, Priyanka
Wang, Haifeng

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; Photos; References (2)

Geographic Terms:

Florida

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01430

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:28AM