01560661

Monograph

http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/172446.aspx

The TRB Committees on Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems, Transportation Information Systems and Technology, and Geographic Information Science and Applications hosted a peer exchange on March 3-4, 2015, in Washington, D.C., to explore effective data governance and data business planning solutions for safety applications. Participants explored both technical and organizational factors and identified priority research needs. At the peer exchange, attendees focused on four major themes: the business case for data governance, essential elements of data governance, operationalizing data governance at a department of transportation (DOT), and using data governance to advance data sharing and integration. Much discussion centered on the importance of data governance in the context of the changing state DOT organization. Other discussion topic areas included: the actual benefits and value of data governance programs, essential data governance roles, strategies for operationalizing data governance in constrained environments, and successful techniques for data coordination and collaboration both across organizational silos and between DOTs and external safety partners. Participants then developed six research needs statements, which are described in this report: 1. Determining Metrics for Successful Data Governance; 2. Peer Exchange on Executive Perspective on Managing Transportation Data and Information as an Asset; 3. Essential Elements of Data Integration to Drive Business Decisions in Transportation Agencies; 4. Data Governance in the Context of Centralized Information Technology; 5. Crash Data Life-Cycle Practices; and 6. The Effect of Location Accuracy on Safety Data Analysis: A Case for Data Governance.

English

130p

2015-4

Transportation Research Circular

Improving Safety Data Programs Through Data Governance and Data Business Planning: A Peer Exchange

Web

Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Tables

Business practices; Crash data; Data sharing; Decision making; Research; State departments of transportation; Transportation safety

Data governance

Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General); I81: Accident Statistics

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Apr 20 2015 3:00PM