1. The Michigan Traffic Crash Facts Grant
Patrick Bowman
Traffic Records Forum
August 8, 2016

2. Transportation Data Analysis
Center for the Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation (CMISST)
Transportation Data Analysis
(data fusion, state data, driving data, crash outcome, etc.)
Staff of 10
Data Dissemination
(web-based access to customized UMTRI, state, and national transportation datasets)
Methods Development
(study design, videoless driving data collection, appropriate statistical methods for analyzing driving datasets, etc.)

3. Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning

4. Michigan Crash Data Preparation and Analysis
Receive raw official “closed data” from Michigan Criminal Justice Information Center annually built in SAS
Data uploaded to GUI with XML schema
MTCF website
Technical assistance requests from OHSP staff and traffic safety community

5. Technical Assistance Data analysis and statistical consulting
Began as data requests and progressed to current grant level
Formally started in 2012 with part-time statistician
Added another part-time statistician in 2013
Current second office at “UMTRI North” location (Lansing)

7. Data Request Spreadsheet

8. Data Request Examples
Spreadsheets, formal reports, presentations, etc.

9. Performance Plan

10. Michigan Traffic Crash Facts Website
Publications
Reports and Fact Sheets from MI data (2015 in progress)
Updated to include newly requested data reports each year
Data Query Tool
MI data
Customized queries using fields on police UD-10 report as filters
Charts, tables, lists, calendars, maps, and crash reports
Continue to update the website each year to add new features requested by users.

11. Usage Statistics (April 1, 2015 – June 30, 2015)
Publications
~260 average unique publications requested per month
Most downloaded publication: 2014 Statewide Report
Data Query Tool
~7,230 queries run per month
Most used filter: Driver Age
Most frequent query: Crash Drinking (Drinking Involved) and Worst Injury in Crash (Fatal)

16. MTCF Demo

17. Thank You
Patrick Bowman
Statistician