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What's New At UMassSAFE
CMV Crash Location Mapping
Road Safety Audits to Address Lane Departure Crashes as Part of Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Traffic Safety Toolbox to Provide Resources for Practitioners The
Massachusetts Highway Safety Toolbox will enable practitioners,
including State Agencies such as the Executive Office of Transportation,
as well as local cities and towns, to effectively review engineering,
education and enforcement countermeasures to prevent and/or alleviate
identified crash problems or change undesired motorists and/or
pedestrian behaviors. It will include a comprehensive compilation of
national and Massachusetts highway safety crash data, issue
descriptions, approximate costs and potential highway safety improvement
strategies. UMassSafe Initiates Police Outreach Survey on Crash Reporting UMassSafe is
working with and for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety
and Security's (EOPSS) Highway Safety Division (HSD) and the Executive
Office of Transportation's (EOT) Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) to
improve the way crash data are collected and used in Massachusetts. The
mission is to streamline crash data collection and improve the
timeliness, accuracy, completeness of police-collected crash data. This
survey was designed to determine the challenges associated with current
crash report data-collection procedures and to identify potential
opportunities to modifying this system. The information gathered will be
used to guide statewide improvements in the crash data collection and
submission process. UMassSafe will provide a summary of the survey
results to the RMV and HSD as well as invite respondents to a meeting to
discuss the findings. UMassSafe Called On by State Agencies for Crash Data Quality Projects UMassSafe is taking a lead role on crash data quality work in Massachusetts. Along with continued participation on the Massachusetts Traffic Records Coordinating Committee (TRCC), two new projects are now underway. "Improving Crash Data Quality in Massachusetts", funded by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation's Cooperative Research Program, will focus on an audit process to identify and detail data quality issues in the Massachusetts Crash Data system. Subsequently, as part of this project, a data quality improvement plan will be developed to guide the Commonwealth's efforts on improving crash data. Additionally, UMassSafe will undertake a police training project, funded by the Governor's Highway Safety Bureau through the use of 408 funds, that will identify areas for improvement in terms of police collection of data. A web-based police training module, designed to address the problems identified, will be designed and pilot-tested. For more information on the crash data quality projects, click here. |
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UMassSafe
has received funding from the Massachusetts Highway Department
to provide assistance on Road Safety Audits being conducted at
20 Massachusetts locations in an effort to reduce lane departure
crashes. One of the strategies identified under the
Massachusetts Strategic Highway Safety Plan is to work at the
local and regional levels to develop and implement
location-specific strategies to mitigate safety deficiencies
related to lane departure crashes. These Road Safety Audits
bring together representatives from federal, state, and local
government, as well as residents and other interested parties to
discuss the problem location and identify potential
countermeasures. 
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2006