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Since 2005, road safety in the U.S. has improved substantially. Of interest in this study was road safety in the individual U.S. states and the District of Columbia, both in terms of the current status and recent changes. The analysis included the use of two primary measures: fatality rate per distance driven, and fatality rate per population. The […]
Alabama State Troopers investigated 237 crashes resulting in 10 deaths and 123 injuries during the Fourth of July travel period, according to the Alabama Department of Public Safety. The travel period is considered the 78 hours from 6 p.m. Thursday through midnight Sunday.
This article is to explain the rationale for the following statement that is made in the 2010 Crash Facts Book: Based on 2010 data, if you are a typical driver in Alabama, there is greater than a one in three chance that you will be involved in an injury or fatal crash while driving an […]
There are a number of inconsistencies between the data collected within eCrash and that obtained from the paper forms. The deployment of eCrash was on June 1, 2009 for all DPS and some city agencies. Additional cities were added througout the remainder of 2009 and 2010. The purpose of this article is to address these […]
The following IMPACT that compares Alcohol Crashes (red bars) vs. Non-Alcohol (blue bars) for the Day of the Week variable will be used to explain IMPACT outputs See image below for the IMPACT output for the alcohol-related day of the week variable will be used for this explanation. The left (red) bars represent the current […]
The Alabama Department of Public Safety teamed with the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) to develop eCrash, the nation’s first totally paperless crash reporting system. Except for the reports provided to those involved in crashes, all other aspects of eCrash are paperless, from the officers’ entry of the data (in many […]
Most statistical information needs can be obtained online from the new CARE Dashboard, developed by the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS). Use the tutorials available here to learn about the data and the CARE Dashboard. Details on the CARE software are also available on the CARE page of the CAPS website. […]
This document presents the Alabama Traffic Safety Information Systems (TSIS) Strategic Plan for the 2014-2019 time period, or planning horizon. It begins by providing context in terms of the overall background and history of the planning process over the past decade. Alabama’s Traffic Safety Information System (TSIS) components include all of the hardware, software and […]
