Proposed Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory |
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Terry T. Shelton
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
August 17, 2012
[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 160 (Friday, August 17, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49859-49860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-20249]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2012-0091]
Proposed Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the publication of the Traffic Records
Program Assessment Advisory, DOT HS 811 644, which provides guidance to
States on the collection, management, and analysis of data used to
inform highway and traffic safety decision-making. States need timely,
accurate, complete, and uniform traffic records to identify and
prioritize traffic safety issues and to choose appropriate
countermeasures and evaluate their effectiveness. This document
provides information on the contents, capabilities, and data quality
attributes of an effective traffic records system, and includes
assessment questions that qualified independent assessors can use to
evaluate the capabilities of a State's traffic records system.
DATES: Written comments may be submitted to this agency and must be
received no later than October 16, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID number
NHTSA-2011-0044 by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 202-366-2746.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, M-30 U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590.
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Hand Delivery or Courier: Docket Management Facility, M-30
U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building, Ground floor, Room
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Regardless of how you submit your comments, you should identify the
Docket number of this document.
Instructions: For detailed instructions on submitting comments and
additional information, see http://www.regulations.gov. Note that all
comments received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.
Please read the ``Privacy Act'' heading below.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all
contents received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the
complete User Notice and Privacy Notice for Regulations.gov at http://www.regulations.gov/search/footer/privacyanduse.jsp.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to
West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For programmatic issues: John Siegler,
Office of Traffic Records and Analysis, NVS-423, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590. Telephone (202) 366-1268. For legal issues: Roland Baumann,
Office of Chief Counsel, NCC-113, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone (202) 366-5260.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Timely, accurate, complete, and uniform
traffic records data is needed to identify and prioritize traffic
safety issues, and choose appropriate countermeasures and evaluate
their effectiveness. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
published the Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory (DOT HS 811
644) to provides guidance to States on the collection, management and
analysis of data from the crash, driver, vehicle, roadway, citation and
adjudication, and injury surveillance databases.
This document describes the capabilities of traffic records systems
and includes a set of questions, which are the basis for an in-depth
formal review of State highway safety data and State traffic records
systems. Specifically, these questions examine how the State Traffic
Records Coordinating Committee (TRCC) collects, manages, and integrates
information on the crash, driver, vehicle, roadway, citation and
adjudication, and injury surveillance databases. This assessment
instrument was created in response to the GAO recommendation (GAO-10-
454) that ``NHTSA take steps to ensure state traffic records
assessments are complete and consistent to provide an in-depth
evaluation of all state traffic safety data systems across all
performance measures''.
During a traffic records assessment, assessors will evaluate the
response to each question. Per the Advisory, the system being evaluated
will be deemed to be: (1) Meeting the description of the ideal traffic
records system, (2) partially meeting the ideal description, or (3) not
meeting the ideal description. These assessments will identify the
strengths and weaknesses of each component of the State's traffic
records systems and provide the State with an overview of the current
status of their traffic records program that can be used to benchmark
improvement efforts. In addition, NHTSA will aggregate this data to
examine the strengths and weaknesses of traffic records systems
nationally. The full text of the Traffic Records Program Assessment
Advisory, DOT HS 811 644, is available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811644.pdf.
Terry T. Shelton,
Associate Administrator, National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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