Section 408 Oklahoma

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Section 408 Oklahoma

• January 30, 2007
• S408/Traffic Records Workshop
• Arlington, Texas

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Section 408 Timeline

• S408 Funding Announced 09/14/06
• Less than 90 work days since then
• Does not include individual leave days
• Obstacles
• FY07 HSP/Performance Plans Completed
• S408 contracts to be written/negotiated
• Legal reviews
• Etc.

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OK Traffic Records Council

• Active and effective for more than a decade
• Constantly reviewing and adjusting membership
• Latest additions
• OSDH EMS Director
• OK Assoc. of Chiefs of Police Executive Director

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Traffic Records Strategic Plan

• OTRC has had a strategic plan for years
• Assessments in 2004, 1999, 1993
• OTRC has conducted day-long off-sites to review
  assessments, develop work plans and manage
  progress
• Latest off-site was 10/17/06
• Reviewed 2004 Assessment
• Reviewed OTRC Strategic Plan
• Strategic Plan update being worked

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S408 Projects

• Codes
• Data Linkage
• Data Analysis
• 80,000
• CODES Network 65,147
• Moved to OSDH
• Move decision in part a solution to eliminate
  OSDH institutional barriers to health data access

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S408 Projects

• OU Crash Reporting Analysis System
• SAFE-T a web-based application to create maps,
  reports perform traffic engineering analysis on
  crash statistics
• Data to locals ODOT engineersfrom days to
  minutes
• Jan 07ODOT had 10M for cable barriersSAFE-T
  quickly provided areas for barriersEngineering
  will usew/o SAFE-T, analysis would take weeks
  rather than hours.
• 50,000
• OU School of Electrical Computer Engineering
• On-trackOU team seasoned working well

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S408 Projects

• Mobile Data System Software Development
• Provides TraCS technical expertise to automate
  the States traffic records system by automating
  processes of data collection, processing, and
  maintenance
• 170,860
• CVARS CDL provides an additional 86,674
• OU School of Electrical Computer Engineering
• On-trackOU team seasoned working well

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S408 Projects

• EMS NEMSIS
• Project permits OSDH EMS to obtain software and
  service to field software and EMS hardware to
  electronically capture and collect EMS data
• 200,000
• OSDH EMS
• On-trackcontract coordinated

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S408 Projects

• TraCS Technical Support
• Assist the National Model TraCS Project in
  maintaining development technical support for
  participating TraCS states
• 25,000
• Iowa TraCS
• On-trackcoordination with Iowa good

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S408 Projects

• On-Line Crash Reporting System
• Development implement an on-line fillable crash
  form
• 35,000
• DPS, ok.gov
• Meeting held with ok.gov 01/18/07
• Awaiting cost estimate from ok.gov
• Promisingok.gov has already done something
  similar for DPS

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S408 Project

• PIE
• 38,941

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Roadblocks, Issues, Solutions

• Procedural Slownesslegal, procurement, etc.
• Size of traffic records problem/under funded

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Traffic Records Successes

• Traffic Records successes are not just S411,
  S408, etc. successes
• Myriad people, myriad funding sources
• S411 was a startmixed with 402, etc.
• S408 will be a solid help
• FMCSA support and significant funding made a
  difference

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FMCSA CVARS Support

• Funded application
• CVARS Project Coordinator
• Data Entry Project
• Crash Data Elements revision
• Digital Imaging/Capture Project
• Mobile Data Collection Pilot
• Traffic Records Assessment

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CVARS Coordinator

• Carol Williams
• Funded until ?
• Coordinates CVARS and traffic records actions
  issues with myriad federal, State, and local
  agencies and individuals
• Mottodont stop for permissionask forgiveness,
  when and if necessary

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Mobile Data Collection Pilot

• TraCS will be used in Oklahoma
• Six OHP units now fully functional for TraCS
  pre-pilot
• Six forms being evaluated with system
• Great buy-in from DPS OHP leadership

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Traffic Records Assessment

• Completed December 2004
• OTRC day off-site March 2005
• OTRC day off-site October 2006
• OTRC Strategic Plan benchmarks review January 16,
  2007, w/plan update

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Crash Data Elements Revision

• Collision Data Elements Dictionary
  created/updated
• New Collision Crash Forms 01/01/07
• Hardcopy
• On-line PDF
• Will be web accessible, saveable
• New Officer Training Manual
• Hardcopy
• On-line PDF

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Data Entry Project

• December 2006
• 251 hours
• 2,329 crash report data entered w/OT
• Crash coding completed w/o OT
• Crash data entered within 48 hours
• Since 2004
• 116,000 crashes entered
• 550,000 out-of-state citations entered

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Oklahoma Traffic Records

• Outlookpromising!