Implementation Effort
- Requires minimal effort
- Timeline between 2-3 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.
Building Highway Safety Plans More Efficiently
The New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety uses Numetric to build the state’s Highway Safety Plan in more than half the time it previously took before their office adopted the software.
Required Data
- Crash Data
Focus Areas
- Highway Safety Plan
- Federal Grants
Process Overview
County and state-owned property, such as guardrails, traffic signs, and other public assets, is often damaged in crashes. It can be a time-consuming and challenging process to track these incidents, verify the damage, and bill the responsible party for claims. Using Numetric to handle this process can save time and improve efficiency.
The Muskegon County Road Commission, which maintains 329 lane miles of state roads under contract with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), relies on crash narratives and police reports to substantiate property damage claims. Staff use Numetric to locate the relevant police crash report (UD-10) or to search for crashes by date range, geographic polygon, and narrative keywords. This process reduces the time spent locating and verifying incidents compared to the previous, antiquated system the team used.
Often, these public outreach initiatives involve tracking and reporting on crash counts, or rates for a given period. Using AASHTOWare Safety, agencies can create custom time-period reporting filters to make reporting on, and tracking crash statistics easier.
(Data charts and heat maps from the NJDHTS Highway Safety Plan)
Using Numetric to build a state’s Highway Safety Plan is efficient and effective. Users can quickly pull the data they need, from annual crash numbers to specific safety emphasis areas such as bicycle, pedestrian, speeding, or work-zone crashes. Users can also build reports and charts natively within the application.
(A Crash Query displaying bicyclist-involved crashes)
Since the data is stored in one place, it’s much easier to find the information needed to build the safety plan. Users can simply use filters to query the crash data, which populates the desired results in seconds.
“DHTS is responsible for establishing goals to reduce motor vehicle crashes using performance measures based on assessments of the roadway environment. The New Jersey Triennial Highway Safety Plan (HSP) is required by federal law to serve as a framework for setting performance goals and measures for reducing traffic crashes, fatalities, and injuries, and creating a safer and more efficient transportation system.”
–State of New Jersey Highway Safety Plan (Federal Fiscal Years 2024-2026)
The application does all the heavy lifting and takes the burden off users to manually find the necessary data. Not only does this save time, it also eliminates pain points that often accompany manual data searches across numerous spreadsheets.
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