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https://onlinepubs.trb.or...trcircular/233/233-001.pdf

State highway and accident records systems have improved markedly in recent years but such gains may be eroding. The need for traffic safety data and analysis capability is increasing with changing types and sizes of vehicles. Present records systems may need to be modified to help in identifying problems resulting from the changing vehicle mix and to design countermeasures. Reducing the data included in records systems is a false economy, and every effort should be made to improve the information recorded. Management has an increased need of such systems to aid in improving its decision-making capability. Thus, state highway safety agencies must increase the usefulness and responsiveness of accident, traffic, and highway records systems, make full use of the available information, and improve communication between decision makers and records system management. The records system should include property-damage-only accidents. The potential for success must be assessed before a data records system is implemented. By improving the compatibility of records systems, states can share information and avoid unnecessary expense. State records systems must be used to detect hazardous elements and high accident locations, and the states must seek to prevent accidents involving such factors.

Workshop sponsored by the Committee on Planning and Administration of Transportation Safety of the Transportation Research Board, held in Kings Island, Ohio, August 4-6, 1981. Published in Transportation Research Circular No. 233, Management of Accident Data Systems. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

p. 4-5

1981-11

Transportation Research Circular

Digital/other

Countermeasures; Crash records; Data management; Decision making; Hazards; High risk locations; Information processing; Loss and damage; Management information systems; Prevention; Property; Safety; Vehicle mix

Property damage

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I81: Accident Statistics

TRIS, TRB

Apr 29 1983 12:00AM

• ACCIDENT DATA: A LIMITED TOOL FOR EVALUATION
• ADAAS AND USE OF SAFETY-RELATED DATA FILES
• CHALLENGE TO THE CONFERENCE: THE NHTSA PERSPECTIVE
• DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION PROBLEMS
• ESTABLISHING THE LEVEL OF ANALYSIS REQUIRED TO ADEQUATELY ADMINISTER SAFETY PROGRAMS
• GOAL-SETTING PROBLEMS
• MANAGEMENT OF ACCIDENT DATA SYSTEMS
• MANAGEMENT OF ACCIDENT DATA SYSTEMS. INTRODUCTION AND CONFERENCE PURPOSE
• MANAGEMENT USE OF ACCIDENT STATISTICS: ADMINISTRATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS
• MANAGEMENT USE OF ACCIDENT TRAFFIC STATISTICS AND SAFETY-RELATED DATA: A STATE PERSPECTIVE
• MINIMUM RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION, GOAL SETTING, AND PROGRAM EVALUATION
• MODEL TRAFFIC RECORDS SYSTEM
• PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION: THE GAO PERSPECTIVE
• STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES FOR COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS
• TRAFFIC RECORDS ANALYSIS IN TEXAS
• USE OF ACCIDENT STATISTICS IN MICHIGAN
• USE OF RAPID FOR PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION
• USING DATA ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TECHNIQUES (DART) FOR PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION