Michigan Crash Records History Five Decades Good

Michigan Crash Records History Five Decades – Good & Bad

1960 s CRASH System n n n n 1966 First Surface Transportation Safety Act Required Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) 1966 First Statewide Computer File Burroughs 5500 Accessible by Magnetic Tape & Computer Cards Uniform Reporting Form UD-10 Crash Data Located on State Routes Only

1970 s CRASH System n n n 1970 - Michigan Accident Locating System Proposed Featured Analysis Software and Statewide Locating 1973 - MALI Development Started MALI Database Provides for Automated Locating using Two Linear Reference Systems 1976 – MALI Software Implemented, Crash Data Located on State Routes 1979 – MALI Database Complete, Crashes Located Statewide

1980 s CRASH System n n n Michigan’s System Recognized Nationally as Model Crash System Data Shared with MDOT, UMTRI, TIA, MPOs Comprehensive Redesign Proposed Budget Cuts – Cause Backlog in Posted Data Redesign Effort Fails Decade Ends with Significantly Degraded System

1990 s CRASH System n n n n 1992 – To Improve Efficiency Bubbled Form Introduced Quality Issues Result from Data Collected by 20, 000 Officers Rather Than by Centralized Staff Electronic Data Collection Proposed & Prototype Developed Second Comprehensive Redesign Proposed MALI Database Updating Eliminated Redesign & Electronic Data Collection Initiative Fail MALI Database Conflated to Statewide Geographic Framework Database

2000 CRASH System n n n n 2000 Automated Locating Converted to Framework Database – Location Success Drops to 70% 2001 – TRANStip Process Improvement Conducted 2002 – Comprehensive System Redesign Initiated 2003 – First Development Phase Implemented 2003 – 2006 Four Additional Development Phases Implemented New System Eliminates Backlog, Implements QA/QC Programs, Introduces Web Analysis 2006 – Crash Data Submitted Electronically from 10 Law Enforcement Agencies Michigan’s System Recognized Nationally as Model Crash System