1. Effective Safety Data Governance (Illinois Experience)
Mehdi Nassirpour
Presented at the Traffic Records Forum in New Orleans, LA

2. Safety Programs at IDOT Traffic Records Assessment Results
Objectives
Safety Programs at IDOT
Traffic Records Assessment Results
Accomplishments
Challenges
Future Plan

3. New Safety Programs at IDOT Bureau of Safety Programs and Engineering
Administrative Support
Safety Policy & Initiatives
Safety Programs
Crash Information
Safety Analysis & Evaluation

4. Illinois Highway Safety Program Areas
Occupant Protection
Impaired Driving
Aggressive Driving and Speeding
Distracted Driving (Cell Phone Use and Texting
Drowsy Driving
Motorcycle Safety
Younger Driver
Older Driver
Pedestrian
Pedal-cycle
Engineering

5. Safety Analysis & Evaluation
Problem IDs
Project & Program Evaluation
Performance Measures & Targets
Traffic Records & Data Linkages
Safety Performance Functions Safety Analyst & IHSDM Software

6. Traffic Records & Data Linkages
Traffic Records Committees
Executive
Steering
Technical
Two Subcommittee
Data Quality
Engineering
CODES
Site-based Linkages

7. Objectives of Traffic Records Assessment
To determine whether the traffic records system in Illinois is capable of supporting management’s needs to identify the State’s highway safety problems.
Improve State traffic record systems
Help State TRCCs involve all traffic record systems
Promote greater cooperation and coordination within and between traffic record system components
Provide States with direction when developing performance measures for their data systems and data grant programs

8. Existing Traffic Safety Related Databases
Crash data
Driver and vehicle data
Roadway data
Enforcement and adjudication data
EMS and injury data
Illinois Traffic Records Coordinating Committee

9. Criteria and Performance Measures
Timeliness
Accuracy
Completeness
Uniformity (consistency)
Integration
Accessibility

10. Traffic Records Assessment Results
Out of 391 assessment questions, Illinois met the Advisory ideal for 180 questions (46%), partially met the Advisory ideal for 56 questions (14.3%), and did not meet the Advisory ideal for 155 questions (39.6%).
73.7% of the time for TRCC Management
81.3% of the time for Strategic Planning
81.8% of the time for Crash and 76.3% for Roadway
41% of the time for Vehicle, 20% Driver, and 16.7% of the time for Citation / Adjudication
42.3% of the time for EMS / Injury Surveillance
15.4% of the time for Data Use and Integration.

11. Accomplishments—Crash & Roadway Data)
Accessibility of crash data and Roadway data (Safety Data Mart and Safety Portal and GIS-based data.
IDOT has developed an automated process to provide electronic large truck- related crash file for the SAFETYNET and FARS.
Illinois has successfully partnered with nine approved third party vendors to assist local agencies in collecting their XML crash data to be submitted to IDOT.

12. Accomplishments—Driver & Vehicle Data)
The integrity of the driver file is enhanced by the use of facial recognition technology to identify those applicants who may already have a driver license under some other identity. The Social Security On-line Verification and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements systems are checked prior to license issuance.
In FY 2017 IDOT has funded the Data Warehouse project with the Illinois Office of the Secretary of State (SOS).

13. Accomplishments—Statewide Injury Surveillance System (SWISS) Records
Illinois has a SWISS consisting of multiple datasets collected or managed under the direction of IDPH.
The state made improvements in the type, quality and completeness of injury data, such as collection of E-Codes. Then, in 2009, IDPH began to receive emergency department data from the state’s hospitals.
Illinois revised its EMS data collection system to one that is NEMSIS compliant and that will allow agencies to submit data electronically via software provided by the state or by their own third-party vendor

14. Accomplishments—Data Integration)
Illinois has made significant progress toward linking the crash data to hospital discharge data. Since 2006, Illinois has been a Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) state. Analysts at IDOT, along with other partners, have produced a multitude of reports that focus on traffic safety program areas. CODES data have been used to support legislative activities, especially in the area of occupant restraint.

15. Major Challenges Improve the applicable guidelines
Improve the data dictionary
Improve the procedures/ process flows
Improve the data quality control program
Improve the interfaces with other databases
Improve Data Integration (Linkages)

16. Next Steps Hire Fulltime Traffic Records Coordinator
Hire a fulltime Data Scientist to work on the data integration
Request Roadway Data Improvement Program (RDIP) from FHWA
Request Technical Assistance on Data Governance from NHTSA and FHWA
Establish a Data Warehouse as well as Data Governance at IDOT
Continue to support Data Warehouse project at the Illinois Secretary of State to coordinate three sets of databases (driver, vehicle, and citation) .

17. Contact Information
Mehdi Nassirpour, Manager of Evaluation Section
Bureau of Safety Programs and Engineering Illinois Department of Transportation
Room 005/007, 2300 South Dirksen Parkway Springfield, Illinois 62764
Tel: (217)

18. Questions?