2024 Projects
Traffic Records Projects for Fiscal Year 2024
| PROJECT | ORGANIZATION | YEAR | DESCRIPTION |
| DOH RHINO | Department of Health | 3 of 5 | The purpose of this project is to conduct surveillance for traffic-related injury across Washington State in partnership with the WTSC. The RHINO program has assembled a substantial quantity of data from ED, hospitals, urgent care clinics and many outpatient clinics across the state. In previous years of this project, the DOH has explored the data, improved its quality, and developed ESSENCE queries, dashboards, and definitions for traffic-related injury. DOH will continue to focus on maintaining existing data feeds and the quality of those while also working on integrating the data with other traffic injury surveillance systems, leveraging combined datasets to do more robust traffic injury surveillance, and disseminating observations to inform traffic injury prevention efforts. |
| DOH WEMSIS | Department of Health | 1 of 5 | Continuing work on motor vehicle crash (MVC) surveillance, the DOH Washington EMS Information System (WEMSIS) program proposes developing MVC-related EMS key performance indicators (KPIs). These KPIs will be informed by the findings of the MVC outcomes analysis funded in prior grant periods, as well as input from county medical program directors and WTSC staff. Following development, the MVC KPIs will be incorporated into WEMSIS KPI, data submission, and data quality reports. Grant funds will also support continuing data quality monitoring and reporting. We also propose an assessment of the MVC incident location data within WEMSIS for further analysis, including a data quality summary and geocoding of addresses. |
| DOL Data Catalog | Department of Licensing | 2 of 2 | The Department of Licensing (DOL) Data Stewardship Team desires to purchase a data catalog to improve the accuracy of vehicle and driver data. Improvement of data quality will result in enhanced traffic safety research and operations for all those who rely upon DOL data. Driver and Vehicle data are critical elements in the larger ecosystem of traffic safety data in Washington. Traffic safety researchers at DOL and other state agencies utilize DOL data to better understand crash trends and identify factors associated with collisions. Being able to effectively combine data elements with crash datasets from other agencies (such as WSDOT and WTSC) is essential for being able to fully analyze and assess traffic safety issues. As of October 2021, DOL has a fully staffed team of Data Stewards tasked with the goal of bringing DOL data to a governed state. However, the team is constrained by not having funds to purchase a data catalog and therefore, currently rely upon numerous less-effective tools to organize and store data. With a data catalog, the team could continue classifying business data elements, their metadata, and practice more effective vocabulary management within a platform built specifically for this purpose. Further, a data catalog would allow DOL to better monitor, assess, and record data quality dimension metrics and work towards resolution of issues. As DOL’s data quality improves, so do the contributions to traffic safety through reporting and open data, benefiting organizations and individuals of Washington state and beyond. |
| DOT Traffic Count Collection | Department of Transportation | 1 of 1 | The Washington State Department of Transportation maintains a traffic monitoring program to meet internal needs and federal reporting requirements. This includes temporary traffic counts at approximately 1,000 mainline state highway and 800 ramp stations per year. Due to staffing shortages and other constraints, the Department has in recent years failed to perform enough data collection to remain compliant with federal guidelines. This project is to provide traffic counting services to address the current backlog in data collection. |
| CRAB Gis-Mo Training | Washington State County Road Administration Board | 2 of 2 | The County Road Administration Board (CRAB) utilizes geographic information system mobility (GIS-Mo) software to collect and manage county road infrastructure data. CRAB staff and county workers require ongoing training to ensure the data is being properly logged into GIS-Mo. Without proper training, the data quality will be adversely affected. This project will facilitate the creation of GIS-Mo training materials; establish training guidelines for counties; and standardize data inputs into GIS-Mo. |
| OFM Traffic Records Data Integration | Washington State Office of Financial Management | 4 of 5 | WTSC formed a partnership with OFM to transfer management and governance of the integrated traffic records program. The Traffic Records Integration Program (TRIP) will link data from all crashes to toxicology, driver licensing and vehicle registrations, injury data from emergency rooms, inpatient, outpatient, trauma, and adjudication. Other data will be included as available. |
| WSP SECTOR 24×7 Support | Washington State Patrol | 4 of 5 | The Statewide Electronic Collision & Ticket Online Records (SECTOR) infrastructure support is currently available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. If the SECTOR application is down, law enforcement officers are unable to issue tickets when performing contacts with drivers on Washington roadways. This puts both the law enforcement officer and the public at risk, as the officer will be limited to writing a warning or will be forced to contact another officer for assistance, increasing the time spent and potentially increasing the number of vehicles on the side of the road. Additionally, if the SECTOR application experiences after-hours or weekend interruptions in service, all agency systems that depend on data from SECTOR will be negatively impacted with gaps in collection and dissemination. There is no structure that supports an outside of normal business hours response to interruptions to SECTOR services. |
| WSP WRECR Replacement | Washington State Patrol | 3 of 3 | The main goal of the project is to replace the current aging Washington Requests for Electronic Collision Records (WRECR) system with a state-of-the-art records management system designed with robust technology and advanced analytical and reporting capabilities. |
| WaTech JINDEX Resourcing | Washington Technology Solutions | 2 of 2 | The WATECH JINDEX Support Services are provided by a highly skilled team dedicated to providing world-class application support to 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 (WSP, DOT, DOL, & AOC) 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. |
| WTSC Traffic Records Training and Coordination | Washington Traffic Safety Commission | 3 of 5 | 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. |
Reports
Reports submitted by Traffic Records grantees
Impact of Pandemic “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” Order on Traffic- Related Injury, Washington State
Submitted by the Washington Department of Health, September 2022
Assessment of the Quality of EMS Incident Location Documentation in WEMSIS
Submitted by the Washington Department of Health, September 2022
Washington State Health Care Encounters Involving a PublicTransit Facility in 2021 from the Rapid Health Information Network (RHINO)
Submitted by the Washington Department of Health, May 2022
Hospitalization Outcomes of Motor Vehicle Crashes using linked Washington Emergency Medical Services Information System (WEMSIS) and Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS) Databases
Submitted by the Washington Department of Health, September 2021
Linkage of the Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS) and Washington Emergency Medical Services Information System (WEMSIS) Databases
Submitted by the Washington Department of Health, September 2021
Emergency Department Records Data Mining and Machine Learning from the Rapid Health Information Network (RHINO)
Submitted by the Washington Department of Health, September 2021
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