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Best Practices and Web Page Challenges for 2010

Deadline for this competition was April 15 - Submissions are no longer accepted for consideration at the 2010 Forum.

Winners from both contests will be recognized at the 2010 Traffic Records Forum in New Orleans, Louisiana

Best Practices Challenge 

WHAT BEST PRACTICES IS ALL ABOUT:

As we all know, traffic records is the vital tool needed for reducing motor vehicle crashes.  Experts in both public and private safety arenas, stress the importance of making the best data available for safety programs to be the most effective.  Projects to improve data capture, manipulation and evaluation are experiencing great success throughout the country and the world.  Best Practices seeks to bring as many of these projects to the forefront as possible so we may all benefit now and in the years to come.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE A GOOD BEST PRACTICES CANDIDATE:

If in the planning or development stages, please wait.  Perhaps you could present your ideas, plans, and new developments at one of the forum sessions.  If in the implementation stage, please submit.  You should detail concrete evidence of how the project impacted on safety through improved data collection or use.

The following six National Agenda goals should be addressed as they pertain to your application for Best Practices recognition:

Does the Best Practices candidate:

1.   Involve a leader(s) who promotes the importance of highway safety information systems, used for safety policy and program decision-making?

2.   Involve the coordination of the collection, management, and use of highway safety information among various organizations responsible for highway transportation policy?

3.  Represent an example of integrating the planning of highway safety programs with highway safety information systems?

4.   Represent an example where managers and users of highway safety information have utilized or were provided the necessary resources to select the appropriate technology to meet their information needs?

5.   Represent examples of highway safety professionals being trained in the analytic methods appropriate for evaluation of highway safety information?

6.   Involve the promotion and use of technical standards for characteristics of highway safety information systems, critical to the development and management of highway transportation safety programs and policies?

A comprehensive Traffic Records System must support the following major steps:  (1) Establish Safety Goals, (2) Identify Problems, (3) Plan Programs/Countermeasures, (4) Implement Programs, (5) Monitor Program Operations, and (6) Evaluate Effectiveness.   Successful candidates for Best Practices should improve/support for one of more of these management steps to highway safety.   The management approach is complementary to National Agenda goals.    

Best Traffic Records Webpage Challenge

Again for 2010, ATSIP seeks to recognize exemplary work in the field of "Best Traffic Records Web Page."  A wealth of information exists on the Internet.  The application questionnaire, and a visit to your web site, will provide the means of evaluation for the committee to select and award the governmental agency that makes the most complete and accurate traffic records safety information available to the public.  Characteristics we will be considering include:

Ease in getting to the site,

Navigating the site,

Querying the data,

The availability of multiple years of data,

And in the most user-friendly way.

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