2026 Projects
Traffic Records Projects for Fiscal Year 2026
Project
Organization
Description
DOH RHINO
Department of Health
The Department of Health (DOH) will explore the feasibility of calculating and incorporating standard injury severity indicators into the Rapid Health Information NetwOrk (RHINO) dataset. Additionally, DOH will investigate supplementing the RHINO data with hospital charge information by joining RHINO data with the WA hospital discharge dataset, the Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS). CHARS contains charge information for observation and inpatient visits.
The RHINO program will continue to onboard and maintain emergency department data while continually working toward a goal of collecting 100 percent of non-federal emergency department visits. Additionally, we will work toward improving completeness of our data by establishing a data quality management process.
DOH will continue to work with the Office of Financial Management (OFM) to integrate RHINO data with other traffic injury surveillance datasets through the Traffic Records Integration Program (TRIP). This will include establishing a data sharing agreement, establishing a data governance framework and process, and provisioning of RHINO datasets for the project. This will improve integration of emergency department data with crash records and other dataset relevant to traffic injuries. This work will remove barriers to data sharing, enhance data quality assurance, increase timeliness of data analyses, and increase the number of traffic injury questions that can be answered than would be possible with the RHINO dataset alone.
This project will address the requirement to improve Traffic Records data quality attributes by improving the completeness and integration of injury surveillance data.
DOH WEMSIS
Department of Health
Continuing their work on motor vehicle crash (MVC) surveillance, the DOH Washington Emergency Medical Services Information System (WEMSIS) program plans to continue current efforts with customized data quality reports for local emergency medical service (EMS) Services, Medical Program Directors, and Regional EMS Councils. The program proposes to increase the depth and impact of reporting to stakeholders, while improving the quality and completeness of data used to support and guide injury surveillance throughout the state. This work will include a comprehensive overhaul of existing reporting processes and products, improving collaboration and input with the wider EMS/injury surveillance community and enhancing routine reporting and data integration with other systems.
This project will address the requirement to improve Traffic Records data quality attributes by improving the completeness of injury surveillance data.
DOT Crash Data PowerBI
Department of Transportation
WSDOT’s Crash Data Portal has limited user functionality and requires pre-canned reports to be developed, limiting ad-hoc queries and cross-factor analysis. For example, a user may get a count of crashes involving young drivers, and a count of crashes involving unrestrained users, but cannot get any information on crashes involving both young drivers and unrestrained occupants. This limited functionality results in hundreds of simple but custom crash data requests being performed by WSDOT staff. There is high public demand for crash data, and the WSDOT would like to align their new PowerBI with the PowerBI dashboards that have been developed by WTSC for fatal crash data.
This project will fund the activities of a contractor to assist WSDOT in enhancing its Crash Data Portal by transitioning from Cognos reports to Microsoft Power BI. Cognos has become increasingly costly and presents limitations in user functionality, prompting WSDOT to explore more effective solutions. Microsoft Power BI, which has been adopted by several state agencies including WTSC, offers improved capabilities for developing user-focused, public-facing data dashboards. Using the WTSC dashboards as a model, WSDOT will develop a series of crash data dashboards leveraging statewide crash data to enhance accessibility and usability.
OFM Traffic Records Integration Program
(TRIP)
Washington State
Office of Financial
Management
The Office of Financial Management manages the state’s Traffic Records Integration Program (TRIP) due to the knowledge, experience, and resources demonstrated in developing and managing complex integrated state data systems.
This project will address the requirement to improve Traffic Records data quality attributes by improving the integration of crash data.
WaTech JINDEX Resourcing
Washington Technology Solutions
The Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) is a message brokering service created by the Washington Integrated Justice Information Board (WIJIB) that provides the means by which Justice related agencies in the state share key information and business processes. The WIJIB has established the JINDEX as the foundation for justice information sharing projects within the State enterprise. It will be designed to serve the diverse justice requirements of state and local government entities as well as appropriate federal and quasi-governmental entities operating in the State of Washington. Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) provides Infrastructure & Connectivity support for the Electronic Traffic Information Processing (eTRIP) Programs and Business Processes. These hardware and software components together make up what is referred to as JINDEX Support Services.
The WaTech JINDEX Support Services are provided by a highly skilled team dedicated to providing world-class application support to Washington State Patrol (WSP) and the eTRIP Committee. The JINDEX Support Team is responsible for maintenance and operations of the system. This team ensures electronic traffic citations and collision tickets are exchanged with eTrip partner agencies and back to the local Law Enforcement Agency which created the ticket. The purpose of this project is to recruit, train, and maintain a secondary JINDEX/MS BizTalk Administrator.
This project will address the requirement to improve Traffic Records data quality attributes by improving the timeliness of citation and adjudication data.
WSP CAT Modernization
Washington State Patrol
The current collision analysis tool (CAT) is outdated and makes it difficult to retrieve data/reports and fulfill data requests. The update will improve the search capabilities for users, making the inquiries more accurate reliable.
The purpose of this project is to contract with a vendor to modernize the current CAT tool into a more beneficial tool for WSP and its customers.
Through a selected vendor, Washington State Patrol will modernize the outdated Collision Analysis Tool (CAT). This project is expected to be completed within a single federal fiscal year (FFY).
WSP TraCS OCM
Washington State Patrol
The goal of this project is to manage the changes that will stem from implementing a new traffic safety information system. An Organizational Change Management (OCM) Specialist will assist in OCM planning and activities, preparing and disseminating communications, and assisting in onboarding agencies that will use the new system.
WSP intends to contract with the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) and Technology Enterprise Group, Inc. (TEG), who maintains the core Traffic and Criminal Software (TraCS) application for assistance in implementing and configuring the application to support the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) Traffic Records Program (TRP) business needs.
The purpose of this project is to effectively plan and transition the stakeholder organizations and personnel to the desired future state, using TraCS. This will be done by:
- Assessing the project’s impact on the stakeholder organizations,
- Collaborating with the traffic records community stakeholders to manage the change introduced by this project,
- Assessing the readiness of the user organizations and individual users to accept changes to the new TraCS working environments,
- Identifying, describing, and planning for necessary actions to facilitate those changes,
- Reducing resistance to change using various communication tools,
- And reducing the overall impact on stakeholder operations.
This project will address the requirement to improve Traffic Records data quality attributes by improving the uniformity of crash data.
WASPC TraCS Trainer
Washington Association
of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs
Contract with the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) to recruit and maintain a trainer to provide coordination, education, and trainings for the end users of the TraCS system (Traffic and Criminal Software).
This project will address the requirement to improve Traffic Records data quality attributes by improving the accessibility of crash and citation/adjudication data.
WTSC Traffic
Records Training
and Coordination
Washington Traffic
Safety Commission
The purpose of this project is to coordinate the technical assistance and training needs of WTSC, grantees, and partner agencies. This is accomplished by providing access to all relevant and applicable traffic records related training opportunities for the TRGC and its committees, namely the annual Traffic Records Forum presented by the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals. This also accomplished by maintaining a software license to Box as a collaboration tool for TRGC and its committees.
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621 8th Avenue SE – Suite 409
Olympia, WA 98501
Phone: (360) 725-9860