Electronic Data Transfer (EDT)

Lavanya YanduruStrongbridge Corporation

In support of U.S. Department of TransportationNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Who are we?• Barry D Eisemann, IT Specialist, Safety Systems

Management Division (SSMD), NCSA, NHTSA• Mike Frenchik, Division Chief, SSMD, NCSA,

NHTSA• Chip Chidester, Office Director, Office of Data

Acquisitions (ODA), NCSA, NHTSA• Terry Shelton, Associate Administrator, NCSA,

NHTSA

Vision• National Census data system of ALL reported

Motor Vehicle Crashes in United States with uniform definitions.

Concept• Using Technology advances in State & Federal – Transfer Motor Vehicle Crash data electronically

from the State on to Federal Warehouse.– Convert ALL Motor Vehicle Crash data into

uniform definitions in accordance with National Information Exchange Model (NIEM).

Advantages• Improves timeliness of data availability

• Increased data quality

• Eliminates redundant processes – Improving efficiency

EDT Process

EDT Pilot• Initial implementation on three states– Pennsylvania– Virginia– Maryland

• Includes implementation on NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Program– Plans to span into other Federal programs

• Expand upon a successful pilot implementation

Basic Requirements• Timeliness of data (How soon the data gets

into the State Crash Database)• Data match (How close the data captured by

state aligns with the uniform data standard)• Ability to share the data electronically on a

regular basis (Every day)

Data Transfer means• Different ways to get the data– Web Service– Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)

• Preferred approach– Using a Web Service– Crash Data can be sent in any format• Prefer XML formatted data • XML data is validated against XSD

FARS• Fatality Analysis Reporting System is a

nationwide census providing yearly data regarding fatal injuries suffered in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

• FARS is a program administered by National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) under National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Auto populate FARS DB• The Uniform Crash Data Warehouse would be

used to populate the FARS DB.• FARS includes only fatal crashes from the

Uniform Crash DB.• This data is made available to the FARS Data

Coders through the Microcomputer Data Entry (MDE) interface

Auto populate FARS DB• In case of the three pilot states, almost 60-

70% of the FARS data will be prepopulated.– This would tremendously increase the timeliness

of making data available in FARS.• The FARS data coders will be able to review

and make updates to the FARS data.

Thank You

Contact: Barry Eisemann (barry.eisemann@dot.gov)