Implementation Effort
- Requires moderate effort
- Timeline between 4-6 weeks*
* Assuming an agency has an existing, configured AASHTOWare Safety instance and all required data
Safety Processes
Our Customer Success team helps agencies turn crash data into actionable insights. The processes below show how they’re making their communities safer.
Replacing Public Crash Facts
Various agencies use AASHTOWare Safety to provide Crash Facts through Dashboards.
Required Data
- Crash Data
Focus Areas
- Data Sharing
- Crash Fact Sheets
Process Overview
The Utah Department of Public Safety and the Idaho Transportation Department are both using Dashboards to transform their approach to Crash Fact Sheets. Instead of publishing static Crash Fact Sheets annually, both agencies have moved this data into a dynamic dashboard that automatically updates as new data becomes available.
The Utah Department of Public Safety (UDPS) previously released downloadable Crash Fact Sheets that had to be rebuilt annually with updated crash data. Numetric worked closely with UDPS to create 17 unique and publicly available dashboards to replace the downloadable Crash Fact Sheets PDFs. Each dashboard’s charts, graphs, and tables are dynamic and automatically updated, removing the need for once-a-year manual updates.
“We’ve gone digital! Current crash data can be found through our online dashboards. Digital dashboards now provide traffic safety data in real-time.”
–Utah Department of Public Safety Website
Each dashboard focuses on a specific emphasis area. For example, there are dashboards for older driver-involved, animal-involved, and drowsy driving crashes. Several dashboards include safety recommendations to spread awareness of how to avoid those types of crashes. About 130 users access the various UDPS dashboards weekly.
Like Utah, the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) published Crash Fact Sheets annually. ITD program managers partnered with AASHTOWare Safety to develop individual dashboards that highlight each of their focus areas.
Users can easily view crash data by district, county, city, or crash injury severity. The dashboard also displays other crash facts, such as contributing circumstances and driver age.
“Accessing and understanding data is an important part of making safe choices. In an effort to help educate the public, the Office of Highway Safety makes its crash data publicly available, online and in print. The ITD Crash Data Dashboards are an online resource showing crash trends and data. The dashboard contains a series of dynamic charts, graphs, and maps. The dashboard allows users to apply their own filters to crash data for custom searches.”
– Idaho Transportation Department Website
This data is updated nightly, and anyone can access the dashboard at any time. Idaho’s public dashboards receive about 80 views weekly.
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