Strategic Plan

This initiative focuses on improving and measuring data accessibility. Projects should help the State measure and improve the dissemination of crash data to decision makers.

• Surveys to measure accessibility
• Web site enhancements to make data more accessible
• Projects to make data more meaningful for decision makers
• Projects to promote websites and data accessibility

• Purchased computer hardware for EMS agencies to reporting data electronically.
• Providing the Louisiana Emergency Response Network (LERN) funds with funds to hire an EMS Register. This person will be responsible to traveling to the different EMS providers in the state and working with them to begin submitting their data electronically to LERN.
• Hired a graduate student to meet with different state agencies to identify the different data systems, obstacles to data integration, and possible projects to integrate data elements
• Provided funds to LA Ambulance Alliance to purchase laptops that were distributed to EMS providers to submit electronic data.

This initiative will focus on capturing, storing, analyzing, and reporting of electronic citation data. Projects should help law enforcement move from a paper based to an electronic citation system.

• Needed changes within current legislation
• Pilot electronic citation projects
• Software development and/or licensing
• Hardware purchasing and/or leasing

• Initiated an eCitation Committee to help transition Louisiana law enforcement agencies from paper citations to electronic citations.
• Distributing a survey to law enforcement to determine TRCC eCitation action plan.

This initiative will focus on meeting and conference support for TRCC members and TRCC related initiatives. Projects should help the TRCC discuss and promote their goals and objectives.

• Funding TRCC Executive meetings
• Funding TRCC Working Group meetings
• Funding LACRASH User Luncheon
• Travel support to related conferences
  • Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
  • Association of Transportation Safety Information (ATSIP)
• Funding for meetings to support new crash report form

• Help support DOTD projects to enhance the development of their roadway database.
• Purchase hardware equipment to support websites, business intelligence projects, and geographical information system applications.
• Enhance the [http://datareports.lsu.edu](existing accident reporting tools and trends webiste) designed and maintained by the HSRG at LSU to ensure that site is user-friendly.
• Hired graduate and undergraduate students to help develop and maintain websites, business intelligence projects, and geographical information system applications.
• Developed GIS web portal for law enforcement agencies.
• Administered surveys to obtain user feedback on the progress of data accessibility for crash data.
• Supporting projects to add roadway data, EMS data from the Louisiana Emergency Response Network, and blood alcohol content (BAC) results from the LSP Crime Lab.

This initiative focuses on enhancing the uniformity of the state’s crash data. Projects should help the State enhance their crash data to be more uniform with MMUCC requirements and the development of new training material.

• Creating a new statewide crash report form
• Funding of new material needed to inform police of enhancements
• Funding LACRASH User Luncheon
• Printing of new crash report forms

• Purchased computer hardware for multiple law enforcement agencies for reporting crash data electronically.
• Purchased Wifi hotspots for law enforcement agencies.
• Purchased crash data retrieval systems for law enforcement agencies to assist with retrieving critical crash data such as occupant restraint, braking, throttle position, and speed prior to a crash.
• Purchased and distributed GPS devices (USB and handheld) to increase latitude and longitude coordinates received on crash reports.
• Purchased and distributed card swipe devices to increase driver license information received on crash reports.
• Supported a longitudinal pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness, accuracy, and timeliness of motorcycle officers collecting crash data information using paper crash reports and a digital pen. The crash data will then be electronically transmitted from the digital pen to the state's crash data.
• Initiated a project to receive OMV data to help increase data accuracy by validating driver and occupant information supplied by law enforcement in their crash reports.
• Hire graduate and undergraduate students to perform data audits on crash reporting information to help identify common problems.

This initiative focuses on capturing, storing, analyzing, and reporting of court management data. Projects should help the courts move from a paper based to an electronic reporting system.

• Automation of court management systems
  • Software licensing
  • Hardware purchasing

• Hosting TRCC Executive and Committee meetings.
• Hosting meetings to support the initiatives of the TRCC Strategic Plan.
• Travel for TRCC personnel to attend Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) Conferences.

This initiative focuses on capturing, storing, analyzing, integration and reporting of injury surveillance data. Projects should help the State identify how to capture and integrate injury surveillance data with crash data.

• Committee to identify the different data systems, obstacles to data integration, and possible projects to integrate data elements
• Projects to help build/support statewide standards and data collection of EMS/injury surveillance data
• Projects to integrate EMS/injury surveillance data with crash data

• Developed multimedia iPad application and interactive website of Louisiana's Traffic Crash Report Manual. The ipad application can be found by search 'LATCRM' within iTunes and to access the interactive website visit http://latcrm.lsu.edu.
• Initiating a Crash Report Committee to determine what additions/modifications to the current Louisiana Crash Form and Manual, developed in 2005, are needed.
• Completed Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Mapping to identify data elements within the Louisiana Crash Report that meet or do not meet the minimum, standardized data set for describing motor vehicle crashes and the vehicles, persons and environment involved.

This initiative provides a unified roadmap to improve traffic records systems across Louisiana. It sets clear goals and actionable projects to strengthen data quality, accessibility, and integration—giving stakeholders reliable information to guide traffic safety decisions.

• Direction for Federal, State, and local partners to enhance traffic data systems
• Projects to improve the timeliness, accuracy, completeness, and integration of traffic records
• A framework for measuring progress and supporting traffic safety analyses

Goals include:

• Strengthening data governance and oversight across systems
• Enhancing the quality and accessibility of crash, injury, driver, and roadway data
• Integrating crash, hospital, and other records to support evidence-based policies
• Supporting stakeholders through education, training, and collaboration

• TRCC Administration (LSU CARTS): Funds a full-time Program Manager to coordinate Louisiana's TRCC, achieved through regular committee meetings, strategic plan updates, stakeholder training, and maintenance of the statewide Data Governance and Accessibility Matrices.
• eCrash System Enhancement (CAPS/ATI): Improves the accuracy, completeness, and usability of Louisiana's statewide electronic crash reporting system by expanding data validation checks, refining automation and diagramming tools, and integrating eCrash with EMS, roadway, and driver data.
• LERN EMS Data Contractor: Increases the completeness and uniformity of EMS injury data by recruiting more ambulance providers to submit electronic reports and converting all agencies to the NEMSIS 3.5 standard, enabling a unique patient identifier to link crash, EMS, and hospital records.
• LERN ICD-10 Refresher Course: Improves the accuracy of trauma registry data by providing ICD-10 coding education to registrars and nurses at all 14 Louisiana trauma centers, keeping injury coding consistent and error rates low.
• Northwestern University Crash Investigation Training: Enhances the accuracy of crash report data statewide by training Louisiana law enforcement officers in crash investigation and reconstruction techniques, from at-scene basics through advanced courses like drone-assisted reconstruction.
• SPEXS Driver Record Correction (OMV): Improves the accuracy and integrity of driver license data by adding dedicated staff to identify and correct duplicate or broken data "pointers" in the national State-to-State driver verification system, supporting a "one driver, one record" standard.