National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Data Analysis in Highway Safety Problem Identification and Program Evaluation
This course provides State Highway Safety Offices the skills necessary for a data-driven organization to improve efficiency, put resources toward identified problems, and improve accountability.
Who should attend?
Federal, State, and local program managers responsible for planning, implementing, conducting, and evaluating highway safety programs.
Benefits
This course provides the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to:
- Strengthen the ability of highway safety professionals to understand the highway safety management process, and subsequently how data, data analysis, problem identification, and evaluation fit into the process.
- Describes commonly used procedures for problem identification and program assessment and shows the use of data and data analysis techniques.
- Describes data analysis techniques to identify performance measures and set goals for highway safety plans at the program/problem area level.
- Describes how data analysis can be integrated into the program evaluation and reporting process.
Format
This 2 1/2-day course consists of discussion, practical exercises using up-to-date FARS data, on-line exercises through Internet connectivity, real-world scenarios instead of hypothetical situations, and customized problems based on participants' States.
Costs
None.
For more information, contact:
Your NHTSA Regional Office or Jack Oates
NHTSA, NTI-200
1200 New Jersey Avenue., SE W46-308
Washington, DC 20590
Voice: 202-366-2730
FAX: 202-366-7394
E-mail: Jack.Oates@nhtsa.dot.gov