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Michigan Crash Records History Five Decades – Good & Bad. 1960s CRASH System . 1966 First Surface Transportation Safety Act Required Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) 1966 First Statewide Computer File Burroughs 5500 Accessible by Magnetic Tape & Computer Cards
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Michigan Crash Records History Five Decades – Good & Bad
1960s CRASH System • 1966 First Surface Transportation Safety Act • Required Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) • 1966 First Statewide Computer File • Burroughs 5500 • Accessible by Magnetic Tape & Computer Cards • Uniform Reporting Form UD-10 • Crash Data Located on State Routes Only
1970s CRASH System • 1970 - Michigan Accident Locating System Proposed • Featured Analysis Software and Statewide Locating • 1973 - MALI Development Started • MALI Database Provides for Automated Locating using Two Linear Reference Systems • 1976 – MALI Software Implemented, Crash Data Located on State Routes • 1979 – MALI Database Complete, Crashes Located Statewide
1980s CRASH System • Michigan’s System Recognized Nationally as Model Crash System • Data Shared with MDOT, UMTRI, TIA, MPOs • Comprehensive Redesign Proposed • Budget Cuts – Cause Backlog in Posted Data • Redesign Effort Fails • Decade Ends with Significantly Degraded System
1990s CRASH System • 1992 – To Improve Efficiency Bubbled Form Introduced • Quality Issues Result from Data Collected by 20,000 Officers Rather Than by Centralized Staff • Electronic Data Collection Proposed & Prototype Developed • Second Comprehensive Redesign Proposed • MALI Database Updating Eliminated • Redesign & Electronic Data Collection Initiative Fail • MALI Database Conflated to Statewide Geographic Framework Database
2000 CRASH System • 2000 Automated Locating Converted to Framework Database – Location Success Drops to 70% • 2001 – TRANStip Process Improvement Conducted • 2002 – Comprehensive System Redesign Initiated • 2003 – First Development Phase Implemented • 2003 – 2006 Four Additional Development Phases Implemented • New System Eliminates Backlog, Implements QA/QC Programs, Introduces Web Analysis • 2006 – Crash Data Submitted Electronically from 10 Law Enforcement Agencies • Michigan’s System Recognized Nationally as Model Crash System