This award to the marshall university research corporation is for research to enable more effective enforcement and engineering efforts to help reduce the number and severity of CMV crashes in west…

The Marshall University Research Corporation was awarded a $583,965 Project Grant from the Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance High Priority Activities Grants and Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 20.237).

The award will support research to generate crash definitions, a crash dashboard prototype, and a crash locator tool to help reduce commercial motor vehicle crashes in West Virginia. Specific deliverables include at least 10 CMV crash definitions important to state stakeholders; a prototype dashboard allowing interaction with defined crash data; a crash location tool displaying crashes on a map; review and location accuracy evaluation of 100 recent CMV crash records; and generation of location data consistent with the state Department of Transportation's linear reference system for 100 crash records. The award also includes generation of a hot spot analysis map for at least one defined CMV crash type. The period of performance is September 30, 2024.

This award to the marshall university research corporation is for research to enable more effective enforcement and engineering efforts to help reduce the number and severity of CMV crashes in west virginia the following are the objectives 1 generate at least 10 CMV crash definitions important to west virginia stakeholders 2 generate a prototype CMV crash dashboard that allows interaction with the crash data defined by the previous objective 3 build a crash locator tool capable of displaying the location of crashes on a map 4 review 100 of the CMV related crash records in WV for the most recent 5 years and evaluate the location accuracy 5 generate a latitude longitude, route ID and milepoint consistent with the wvdot linear reference system for 100 of the CMV crash records that contain location information 6 generate a hot spot analysis map for at least one type of CMV crash defined in objective 1