State Traffic Safety Information System Improvements Grant Program

The Vendor is required to provide the traffic safety funding received by the agency. Funding made available through this agency comes from a federal grant program.
- Software or applications to identify, collect, and report data to State and local government agencies and enter data into State core highway safety databases, including crash, citation or adjudication, driver, emergency medical services or injury surveillance system, roadway, and vehicle data.
- Purchasing equipment to improve a process by which data are identified, collated, and reported to State and local government agencies, including technology for use by law enforcement for near real time, electronic reporting of crash data.
- Improving the compatibility and interoperability of the core highway safety databases of the State with national data systems and data systems of other States, including the National EMS Information System.
- Enhancing the ability of a State and the Secretary to observe and analyze local, State, and national trends in crash occurrences, rates, outcomes, and circumstances.
- Supporting traffic records improvement training and expenditures for law enforcement, emergency medical, judicial, prosecutorial, and traffic records professionals.
- Hiring traffic records professionals for the purpose of improving traffic information systems (including a State Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) liaison).
- Adoption of the model minimum uniform crash criteria or providing to the public information regarding why any of those criteria will not be used, if applicable.
- Conducting research relating to State traffic safety information systems, including developing programs to improve core highway safety databases and processes by which data are identified, collected, reported to State and local government agencies, and entered into State core safety databases.
- Unmet Recommendations:
•    Crash Recommendations: Improve the applicable guidelines for, interfaces with, and data quality control program for the system to reflect best practices in the Advisory.
•    Driver Recommendation: Improve the data quality control program for the system to reflect best practices in the Advisory.
•    Vehicle Recommendations: Improve the description and contents of and data quality control program for the system to reflect best practices in the Advisory.
•    Roadway Recommendations: Improve the data dictionary and data quality control program for the system to reflect best practices in the Advisory.
•    Citation and Adjudication Recommendations: Improve the description and contents of, data dictionary, and data quality control program for the system to reflect best practices in the Advisory.
•    Injury Surveillance/EMS Recommendations: Improve the interfaces with and data quality control program for the systems to reflect best practices in the Advisory.
•    Data Use & Integration Recommendation: Improve the traffic records systems’ capacity to integrate data to reflect best practices identified in the Advisory.