Schedule

The 2001 Traffic Records Forum will begin on Saturday, July 28 with a series of working meetings of the Traffic Records Sub-Committees, followed on Sunday by a meeting of the Executive Board and several professional development courses.

Monday through Thursday will be filled with breakout sessions, workshops and panel discussions covering a wide range of traffic safety data issues. Finally, on Thursday there will be a General Meeting of the Traffic Records Committee where the 2002 officers will be elected.

Traffic Records Forum
Session Titles & Descriptions

The following session topics are under consideration for inclusion in the 2001 Forum. Sessions will be assigned to the program grid on or about April 1, 2001 based upon papers that have been assigned to each topic.

Probabilistic Data Linkage: Applications in Traffic Safety
Panel session discussing strategies, software, hardware, databases, and applications related to probabilistic data linkage.

Roadway Inventory Town Meeting
This session will present the new “Draft Guidelines for Location Referencing of Highway Safety Data” as developed by the NSC Best Practices Committee. Attendees at the session will then be offered an opportunity to interact with the project team to add additional input to the final version of this document.

Best Practices In Highway Safety Data - Part I
This session will include presentations on efforts to define best practices in each of the components of the highway safety data system and a briefing on the NHTSA / NSC effort to provide guidance to states and locals in these areas.

Best Practices In Highway Safety Data - Part II

Judicial Issues
What is going on judicially - good and bad examples of linkage.

Racial Profiling Data Collection
Experiences of law enforcement around the nation. What is the best practice.

Crash System Managers Town Meeting
Discussion on what is happening with crash systems.

Emergency Medical Systems Town Meeting
Discussion on what is happening with crash systems. Discussion of possible plans for an update to the NHTSA EMS Data Element List for EMS Run reporting.

TEA 21
Continued Impact of the Federal TEA21 Legislation and rules on traffic records systems. Pending new initiatives, issues that should be addressed in future rules.

Technology Clearinghouse
What’s new, what works, and where to get it

Crash Reporting System Upgrades
Who is doing what to improve crash reporting systems.

Law Enforcement Clearinghouse
What is happening with law enforcement and collection of the data. Are we moving forward?

Internet - Basic Capture of Data
How we can use the internet to help capture data from accidents, EMS Runs and other Safety Data.

Internet Reporting and Highway Safety Engineers
How engineers can use the internet to gather data.

Internet Future Applications
Future uses for internet - traffic data collection and availability

Drivers/Vehicles New Technologies
GPS, black boxes - what data is available.

ANSI D20.1 and D16.1 Updates
Updates and rewrites of the Manuals for Classification.

Automatic Vehicle Logging Location
Where it is being used, by whom and data availability.

Emerging Technologies
What will be available to us in one, two, three....years

Data Collection for Product Malfunction Identification
Are we collecting data accurately enough to identify product malfunction, i.e., tire failures.

Cars, Kids and Crashes
The effects of graduated driver’s licensing. Is GDL working, what overall effect is GDL having on the crash experience.

FARS Presentation
What is happening in FARS. Updates and availability.

CODES Data Application Session
Examples of the use of CODES linked data in safety programs.

CODES 2000 Data Linkage Session
Update on the new CODES-sponsored probabilistic linkage software.

Safe Communities
The customers for traffic records data. How Safe Communities programs use safety data, and how they obtain data that might not be available at the State level.

Taming the Numbers Course
Overview and discussion of the new NHTSA / NAGHSR sponsored course on the use of data in safety programs.

Traffic Records Activities - Hot Issues
What is taking place around the nation, regional reports.

Data Presentation and Marketing
Highlights - effective tools to consider when developing and presenting information.

Traffic Safety Information Management System (TSIMS)
Update by AASHTO on Phase I activity of this project, and the states participating in the development process. Discussion of plans for Phase II and demonstration of the prototype system.

Community Based Innovations to Traffic Records
What is happening with the development of safety information systems at the local level and how can states take advantage of these innovations in their strategic planning process?

Motor Carrier Data in Action
How is the data being used by Motor Carrier. How accurate is the data collected in the field.

Louisiana Internet System
Demonstration and discussion on the Louisiana internet system

Iowa National Model Update
What is going on with the National Model. How you can become a partner and receive free software.

Data Linkage
A primer on linkage of data at the state and local level. A discussion of the various linkage options, do’s and don’ts.

Truck Crash Audits
A look at the states who have completed audits on their truck crash reports to ascertain if data is being collected, and if data is being collected properly.

Alcohol Involvement - .08 BAC Laws
Presentations on the impact of .08 laws on traffic safety.

Improving Our Understanding of CMV Safety
With the many national initiatives on the commercial vehicle arena, this session will focus on those programs, projects and data issues that state and local safety data professionals should understand.

VHS and Motor Carrier Safety
The Intelligent Vehicle-Highway System brings with it a number of safety issues as relates to commercial carrier safety. This session will address those issues.

Strategic Planning - Keeping Up With Constant Changes in Information Technology
This session will highlight strategic planning efforts in the States of California, Florida and Michigan. Information technology is providing decision makers with new sources of information and tools for analysis. The confluence of computers, and communication technologies is transforming the way agencies conduct business. At the heart of this transformation is information. The overwhelming need of organizations and their workers now is for connectivity, integration, and ease of access to information.

GIS/GPS and Traffic Records
GIS and GPS offer significant improvements to the collection and use of trafficsafety data. This session will focus on examples of how GPS and GPS can be integrated into state and local safety data systems, and the impact of that integration.

At the Federal, State and Local level there is an increased emphasis on roadway and traffic operational design for safety. The highway and traffic engineering community is a source of some of the highway safety data (traffic volumes, roadway attributes) but is also a major user of the safety data systems at all levels. This session will focus on the data needs of the engineering community.

Additional information for this page will be published as soon as it is available.

Schedule of Events

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