Vulnerable User Data Quality Audit 2025
How the 2025 audit of Vulnerable User crash data was done and how to read the results tables on each field page.
MACCS Not Only Makes Crash and Citation Reporting Easier, But More Accurate and Reliable
(Photo Credit: Tony Webster) The Motor Vehicle Automated Citation and Crash System (MACCS) is a browser-based application for electronic crash and citation data collection and reporting. “Automating the citation process has improved the data quality of issued citations and eliminated redundant data entry processes across agencies, while making data and information available more quickly to…
Northeast Commercial Vehicle Safety Summit Explores Existing and Emerging Technologies for Saving Lives
Roadway safety is and will always be partially governed by the technologies available, whether they are something as simple as turn signals or as borderline speculative as fully automated vehicles. Importantly, the technological landscape of roadway safety is always changing, altering the way vehicles are driven, the way roadways are designed, and the ways drivers…
T-Force Analytics: A One-Stop Resource for CMV Safety Data Visualization and Queries
T-Force Analytics is a pilot web-based decision management application that allows commercial motor vehicle (CMV) law enforcement and state drivers licensing agencies (SDLAS) to query and visualize CMV crashes and inspections for Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. It was initially developed by the University of Massachusetts Traffic Safety Research Program (UMassSafe) from a Federal…
The Massachusetts 2023 Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Massachusetts has just released its 2023 Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The SHSP is a federally mandated plan for providing a comprehensive structure for reducing roadway fatalities and injuries on all public roadways. The SHSP is updated every five years, with the previous update having been completed in 2018. Unique to the 2023 SHSP is…
Getting to Know MassDOT’s IMPACT Tool
Massachusetts Department of Transportation (DOT)’s IMPACT data tool suite is a web-based application that provides data, maps and charts for crashes within the Commonwealth. By providing users with the ability to query and visualize Massachusetts crash data, IMPACT grants roadway safety stakeholders an enhanced opportunity to implement and reinforce safety initiatives and programming. Currently, IMPACT consists of six modules: Interactive Data Dashboards, Data Query and Visualization, Data Extraction,…
The Role of the Law Enforcement Liaison in Improving Traffic Records Crash Data
The Massachusetts’ Registry of Motor Vehicles’ (RMV) Law Enforcement Liaison (LEL) plays a valuable role in improving crash data within the Commonwealth. A major responsibility of the LEL is, through careful review, identifying data quality issues on the officer’s end as well as within the Records Management System software itself, then communicating these issues to the appropriate agency, as well as recommending changes…