In early 2004 the Montana State Highway Traffic Safety Office (SHTSO) requested that NHTSA facilitate a traffic records assessment. NHTSA proceeded to assemble a team of traffic records professionals representing the various disciplines involved in a state traffic records system. Concurrently the SHTSO carried out the necessary logistical and administrative steps in preparation for the onsite assessment. A team of professionals with backgrounds and expertise in the several component areas of traffic records data systems (crash, driver/vehicle, traffic engineering, enforcement and adjudication, and EMS/Trauma data systems) conducted the assessment April 19 to 23, 2004. The scope of this traffic records assessment covered all of the data systems comprising a traffic records system. The purpose was to determine whether Montanas traffic records system is capable of supporting managements needs to identify the States safety problems, to manage the countermeasures applied to reduce or eliminate those problems and to evaluate those programs for their effectiveness. One of the questions to be answered was, Does Montanas traffic records system support the Montana State Highway Traffic Safety Office in its leadership role for highway safety in the State of Montana. To its credit, the SHTSO is recognized as the primary source for safety data, and it does a commendable job of providing users with whatever it has available. Unfortunately, much of the data accessible to SHTSO is limited to crash records information; data from other systems is largely unavailable except in summary form. However, the SHTSO requires data from all of the data systems, individually and collectively, to prepare its annual Highway Safety Plan, to justify the expenditure of federal grant funds, to approve applications for projects, to respond to the publics need for answers to safety issues, to monitor the States safety trends, and to support new highway safety legislative measures. The team found that the State of Montanas traffic records data systems currently are not operating at a level of effectiveness necessary to fully support the States highway safety community in general and the State Highway Traffic Safety Office in particular.


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