TCRS

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Michigan Crash Records History Five Decades
Good Bad
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1960s CRASH System

• 1966 First Surface Transportation Safety Act
• Required Highway Safety Improvement Program
  (HSIP)
• 1966 First Statewide Computer File
• Burroughs 5500
• Accessible by Magnetic Tape Computer Cards
• Uniform Reporting Form UD-10
• Crash Data Located on State Routes Only

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1970s CRASH System

• 1970 - Michigan Accident Locating System Proposed
• Featured Analysis Software and Statewide Locating
• 1973 - MALI Development Started
• MALI Database Provides for Automated Locating
  using Two Linear Reference Systems
• 1976 MALI Software Implemented, Crash Data
  Located on State Routes
• 1979 MALI Database Complete, Crashes Located
  Statewide

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1980s CRASH System

• Michigans System Recognized Nationally as Model
  Crash System
• Data Shared with MDOT, UMTRI, TIA, MPOs
• Comprehensive Redesign Proposed
• Budget Cuts Cause Backlog in Posted Data
• Redesign Effort Fails
• Decade Ends with Significantly Degraded System

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1990s CRASH System

• 1992 To Improve Efficiency Bubbled Form
  Introduced
• Quality Issues Result from Data Collected by
  20,000 Officers Rather Than by Centralized Staff
• Electronic Data Collection Proposed Prototype
  Developed
• Second Comprehensive Redesign Proposed
• MALI Database Updating Eliminated
• Redesign Electronic Data Collection Initiative
  Fail
• MALI Database Conflated to Statewide Geographic
  Framework Database

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2000 CRASH System

• 2000 Automated Locating Converted to Framework
  Database Location Success Drops to 70
• 2001 TRANStip Process Improvement Conducted
• 2002 Comprehensive System Redesign Initiated
• 2003 First Development Phase Implemented
• 2003 2006 Four Additional Development Phases
  Implemented
• New System Eliminates Backlog, Implements QA/QC
  Programs, Introduces Web Analysis
• 2006 Crash Data Submitted Electronically from
  10 Law Enforcement Agencies
• Michigans System Recognized Nationally as Model
  Crash System