Strategic Direction

1
Strategic Direction 1
Establish a Traffic Records Coordinating
Committee (TRCC), which includes representative
from data user groups.

• Accomplishments
• TRCC has been established with following
  representation
• Department of Health
• Department of Transportation
• Driver License
• Highway Patrol
• Highway Safety, FARS
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• CODES
• Need representation from BCI and/or court system

2
Strategic Direction 2
Establish human technical resources within the
Utah Highway Safety Office to better utilize the
current traffic safety information files and to
aid in improving safety information system for
the future.

• Accomplishments
• Traffic Records Coordinator was hired
• Coordinator met with each agency on preliminary
  TRCC to ascertain
• Agency goals and processes
• Data flow of Utahs traffic records
• Past efforts at coordination and improvements
• Appropriate representation for current TRCC

3
Strategic Direction 3
Improve the ROADS file, including increased
coverage integration of the features file into
the Engineering Database integration into a
Geographic Information System improvement of the
location-referencing system

• Accomplishments
• Selection of routes for initial mileposts has
  been determined, and actual mile-posting of the
  selected routes has begun
• Highway Patrol has added a latitude and longitude
  coordinate to its laptop crash entry system
• Scheduled to begin providing this information to
  UDOT within the next funding year

4
Strategic Direction 4
Complete and streamline the motor vehicle crash
information processing system to avoid
duplication of effort between agencies and to
ensure timely and available data.

• Accomplishments
• Traffic Records Coordinating Committee voted to
  proceed with a plan to streamline process
• Subgroup committee formed
• Met monthly since September 25 TRCC meeting
• Activities and timelines assigned to subgroup
  members each meeting
• Goals
• Provide electronic crash data to data users on a
  statewide basis

5
Strategic Direction 5
Provide more timely and easily accessible motor
vehicle crash information data to authorized
members of the highway safety community

• Accomplishments
• Being addressed as per Strategic Direction 4
• Goals
• Provide crash data from CARS (UDOT) in more
  current quarter year intervals rather than on a
  calendar year basis

6
Strategic Direction 6
Identify and implement appropriate data linkages
between and among all traffic files to
maximize the cost/benefit to highway safety
efforts, through the efforts of the statewide
Traffic Records Coordinating Committee

• Accomplishments
• The following linkages have been identified and
  implemented
• Annually
• Crash ? EMS
• Crash ? Emergency Department Data
• Crash ? Inpatient Data
• Crash ? Driver License File
• Special Projects
• Crash ? Birth Certificate, Fetal Death Records

7
Strategic Direction 7
Improve the Engineering Database by integrating
it with other sources and making it accessible to
authorized member of the highway safety community

• Accomplishments
• Scheduled to be addressed in Year 5

8
Strategic Direction 8
Improve the Citation/Conviction File with the
objective of providing complete, current,
accurate, and reliable data to traffic records
systems users. The system will rely on a unique
control number for tracking of citations
throughout the entire adjudication process

• Accomplishments
• Scheduled to be addressed in Year 4
• Highway Patrol is currently working with the
  court systems in issuing electronic citations