Roadside Inspections - Using Data to Identify Who to Inspect: ISS and Query Central

1. Roadside Inspections - Using Data to Identify Who to Inspect:ISS and Query Central Brenda Lantz (Brenda@ugpti.org) August 2002

2. Overview • Background of Inspection Systems • The Inspection Selection System • Query Central

3. Inspection Systems • Development • Improve data accuracy and timeliness • Help focus resources • ASPEN – inspection software • Collects inspection details, prepares report, & transmits data • ISS – Inspection Selection System • Provides inspection recommendation & carrier snapshot with census and safety data

4. Inspection Systems (continued) • PIQ – Past Inspection Query • Retrieves inspection reports from last 60 days • CDLIS Access – Commercial Driver License Information System Access • Retrieves driver status & conviction history • QC – Query Central • Combines the functions of ISS, PIQ, & CDLIS Access, plus more • For more information: http://infosys.fmcsa.dot.gov/

5. ISS - Motivation • Relationship between OOS rates, compliance ratings, and accident rates • OOS rate indicator of safety problems, but need reasonable number of inspections to calculate • 40% of carriers with zero inspections • 28% with one or two inspections • 152 carriers with more than 1,000 inspections • Conclusion: Need to better allocate resources to carriers with worst safety performance, and to better distribute inspections among carriers

6. ISS – Development and Testing • Development guided by a Roadside Technology TWG • Included representatives from Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Ontario, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Wyoming • ISS integrated into ASPEN, and first distributed in 1995 • Results: 60 percent increase in the number of vehicles and/or drivers put OOS when the ISS recommended an inspection • ASPEN/ISS is currently in use in 47 states

7. ISS2 – Development and Testing • Development of SafeStat • ISS2 safety and insufficient data algorithms • Every carrier in MCMIS has an ISS2 value • First distributed in 1999 • Results illustrate just as effective as original ISS

8. Development of Query Central • Motivation • Carrier, vehicle, and driver information retrieval via the Internet • Single input retrieves data from multiple sources • Provides data analysis & summarization • Data is real time, & generally from the authoritative source

9. QC – Carrier Search

10. QC – Carrier Summary

11. QC – Past Inspections

12. QC – Vehicle Search

13. QC – Vehicle Summary

14. QC – Driver Search

15. QC – Driver Summary

16. Questions??