ATSIP Best Practices in Traffic Records

2013 Best Practices in Traffic Records Competition
Winners for the 2013 competition will be announced at the 2013 Traffic Records Forum in St. Paul, Minnesota.  The application period is open until June 28, 2013.  Visit the website to download an application.

What is the competition about?

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. Scroll below to view competition winners from prior years.

2012 Best Practices in Traffic Records

• Winner -     Connecticut Electronic Citation (e-Citation) Project    |      (40k)

Runners up:

• Louisiana HSRG Data Warehouse:  One Version of the Truth  |    (359k)
• Missouri Mapping Tool   |    (252k)
• Rutgers: Plan4Safety - Online Crash Analysis Software   |    (47k)
• Texas Crash Reporting and Analysis for Safer Highways (CRASH)  |   (30k)

2012 Best Traffic Records Web Pages

• Winner -     Michigan Traffic Crash Facts (MCTF) 
  • Webpage: http://www.michigantrafficcrashfacts.org
  • Application |   (330k)

Runner up:

•     Louisiana Crash Data Reports
  • Webpage: http://datareports.lsu.edu
  • Application  |   (35k)

2012 Data Visualization Project Award

• Winner -     Minnesota Department of Transportation Road Safety Mapping and Ranking Tool:  
  • Application  |   (238k) 
  • Slideshow  |   (3,265k)

Runners up:

• Louisiana Strategic Highway Safety Plan (LA SHSP) Data Website
  • Application |   (238k)
  • Webpage:  http://datareports.lsu.edu
• Wisconsin Crash Calendar
  • Application  |   (351k)
  • Webpage: http://wisconsinsafetydataportal.org/index.cfm/wi-crash-calendar  
  • Presentation:  Creating the Crash Calendar - Calendar Data Viz Project, Joni Graves  |   (30,103k)

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