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NHTSA

GO TEAMS

TRAINING AND

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

NHTSA’s Traffic Records GO Team program is designed to provide resources and assistance to state, tribe, and territory traffic records professionals as they work to better their traffic records data collection, management, and analysis capabilities.

GO Teams help jurisdictions improve their traffic records systems by deploying small teams of your peers from around the country as subject matter experts to deliver tailored technical assistance and training based on needs.

Reasons to request a GO Team:

• To address a Traffic Records Assessment recommendation or consideration;

• To target a need identified by the jurisdiction’s TRCC;

• To provide technical training; or

• To help strengthen the jurisdiction’s traffic records data collection, integration, governance, or use in planning or analysis.

NHTSA’s Traffic Records Team is tasked with helping jurisdictions improve their traffic safety data collection, management, and analysis capabilities through evaluation, training, and technical assistance.

To learn more, visit www.nhtsa. gov/data/traffic-records.

To submit a GO Team application, contact your NHTSA Regional Program Manager.

DOT HS 813 423

April 2023

15903-040323-v1a

SAMPLE GO TEAM

PROJECTS

Data Integration

Evaluate available databases and facilitate discussions between data custodians to allow sharing and integration between agencies, and suggest how integrated data can help identify problems and suggest and evaluate countermeasures.

Injury Surveillance

Facilitate discussions with data managers and help explain the importance of linking injury data with crash data, how data will be used, and address confidentiality concerns in order to move toward a data-sharing agreement or memorandum of understanding.

Driver/Vehicle

Help a jurisdiction improve data quality through the implementation of edit checks and other QC components (e.g., an error/ edit output for transfer failures and a tracking process).

Crash

Train jurisdiction crash data collectors, processors, administrators, and users on the importance of accurate and complete crash data and how this helps to improve safety decisions.

Citation and Adjudication

Help a jurisdiction develop a “law table” to interpret the local charges and help harmonize local and state statute citations so that more accurate data can be collected.

GO Teams must have a clearly delineated scope appropriate to the GO Team program—a smaller scale, short- to medium-term need.

Roadway

Help a jurisdiction develop an effective data governance plan for roadway data by identifying and maintaining critical data elements to create a data inventory within DOT and with other traffic records datasets.

� Traffic Records Coordinating Committee Management & Strategic Planning

Assist a jurisdiction TRCC with strategic planning and implementing performance measures to meet strategic planning goals.

Comprehensive Data Inventory

Help a jurisdiction establish a process for building a comprehensive data inventory of the state’s traffic records systems.

� State Traffic Records Coordinator Training

Support and train the jurisdiction Traffic Records Coordinator on traffic records program requirements, TRCC management and effectiveness, and stakeholder engagement.

Crash Data Improvement Program

Evaluate the quality of crash data and provide the jurisdiction with specific recommendations to improve the quality, management, and use of that data to support safety decisions and facilitate electronic data transfer. The CDIP often includes mapping jurisdiction data to the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria.

REQUESTING A

NHTSA GO TEAM

Jurisdictions interested in requesting a GO Team should complete a GO Team application. Applicants should contact their Regional Program Manager for more information or assistance with the application process. GO Teams are available at no cost to the jurisdiction.

Applications should be submitted to the NHTSA RPM and should include:

�A detailed description of the technical problem;

�A description of the specific technical assistance being requested;

�A description of the current and past efforts to address this problem;

�An explanation of how GO Team assistance fits into the TRCC’s strategic plan;

�The anticipated improvements that the GO Team is likely to provide to the jurisdiction traffic records data systems; and

� The contact information of the jurisdiction officials who will work with the GO Team.