The purpose of the project proposed by the commonwealth of virginia, department of motor vehicles isto improve the quality of data provided to fmcsa through creating tools to assist with automating…

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) received a $2,000,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance High Priority Activities Grants and Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 20.237). The purpose of this 2-year award is to improve the quality of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) data provided to FMCSA by creating tools to automate data validation, develop data visualizations to alert to potential issues, and expand data collection on trailers involved in CMV crashes in Virginia. The primary objective is to deploy enhanced tools to identify carriers more likely to be involved in crashes, with a focus on increasing the frequency law enforcement encounters out-of-service carriers.

The purpose of the project proposed by the commonwealth of virginia, department of motor vehicles isto improve the quality of data provided to fmcsa through creating tools to assist with automating areasof data validation, data visualizations to alert to potential issues, and by expanding the data collected ontrailers in commercial motor vehicle crashes. The primary objective of this project is to deploy tools toenhance identification of carriers that are more likely to be involved in crashes on the roadways ofvirginia, specifically by focusing on increasing the frequency of times law enforcement officersencounter out-of-service carriers.