Technical Support Services for NHTSA Traffic Records Program

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes.  The agency develops, promotes, and implements effective educational, engineering, research, safety standards and enforcement programs with the goal of ending vehicle crash tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. 

The NHTSA National Driver Register and Traffic Records Division (NSA 221) provides technical assistance to States’ Traffic Records Systems, which includes the hardware, software, personnel, and procedures that capture, store, transmit, analyze, and interpret traffic safety data.  Traffic records system collect, manage and analyze data from several sources. While crash, data is central to traffic safety, other important data sources includes the driver licensing and history, vehicle registration and titling along with commercial motor vehicle, roadway, injury control, and citation/adjudication records.  Traffic records systems are usually collaborative efforts spread across many agencies and organizations.

NHTSA supports the development of State traffic records systems by providing technical assistance to States through the crash data improvement program and Go Teams, assessing States’ traffic records systems, maintaining the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCCC) guidelines and helping States to adopt this standard by measuring their alignment to MMUCC, and supporting the annual International Traffic Records Forum.