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Highway Safety Information Systems (HSIS) Leadership Workshop

Highway Safety Information Systems (HSIS) Leadership Workshop. Very little available to market traffic records to decision-makers, highway safety offices and TRCC members. NAGHSR and NHTSA saw a need for a basic course on HSIS

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Highway Safety Information Systems (HSIS) Leadership Workshop

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  1. Highway Safety Information Systems (HSIS) Leadership Workshop • Very little available to market traffic records to decision-makers, highway safety offices and TRCC members. • NAGHSR and NHTSA saw a need for a basic course on HSIS • If traffic records aren’t marketed to decision-makers, then improvements in HSIS are less likely

  2. Workshop Purpose • Purpose of the course is to inform highway safety decision-makers and members of a TRCC about the importance of HSIS • Objectives met by helping participants understand the importance of highway safety-related data, what kind of data system is needed and why they should take leadership role in improving their HSIS.

  3. Workshop Purpose, cont. • Encourages comparisons with ideal HSIS and state’s own HSIS • Differences between ideal and current HSIS will motivate decision-makers into taking more of a leadership role in the development of an improved HSIS in the state.

  4. Definitions • Most state HSIS’s focus primarily on fatalities and crash data with little information on injuries, violations, locations or costs. • In order to get good data, other databases (EMS, hospital, roadway, driver licensing, citation, vehicle, etc.) must be linked with the crash data files. • An ideal HSIS will have all of these components

  5. Module I – The Purpose • Provides overview of course • Reviews current highway safety planning requirements, how data support them and need to measure performance • Challenges participants to take leadership role

  6. Module II – The Model • Uses Haddon matrix to demonstrate why a comprehensive data is needed • Discusses obstacles that interfere with obtaining comprehensive data • Defines and describes scope and characteristics of ideal HSIS • Discusses the need for a collaborative approach to improving an HSIS

  7. HSIS Model Module III – The Significance • Shows how data from an HSIS is needed for the highway safety planning process ( HSP, Annual Report, incentive grant plans) • Relates data for planning process back to Haddon Matrix

  8. Module IV – Implementation Strategies • Helps participants understand how their HSIS compares with the ideal • Encourages participants to examine obstacles and ways to overcome them • Helps participants focus on priority areas of improvement and actions that can be taken to address priorities • Emphasizes importance of TRCC

  9. Module V: Resources and Direction • Helps participants understand where to go to for help in improving their HSIS • Gives participants inventory of resources CD (glossary, web sites, ANSI d16 and d20, 402 grant manual, NHTSA Traffic Records Advisory, National Agenda for HSIS, 411 grant info., etc.)

  10. End Notes • This is only one tool for marketing HSIS • Course is managed by TSI • Interested states should contact NHTSA Regional Office (not NAGHSR) • Potential faculty members should contact TSI

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