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  • Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC)

    MMUCC is a voluntary set of guidelines that help states collect consistent, reliable crash data that are more effective for identifying traffic safety problems, establishing goals and performance measures, and monitoring the progress of programs. Some of America's leading traffic safety experts worked together to develop the MMUCC guidelines, including representatives from groups in safety, engineering, emergency medical services, law enforcement, public health, and motor carriers.

  • National Emergency Medical Systems Information System (NEMSIS)

    NEMSIS is a national effort to standardize the data collected by EMS agencies. NEMSIS is both a pre-hospital EMS data dictionary and a national repository that will potentially be used to store EMS data from every state.

  • Model Impaired Driving Records Information System (MIDRIS)

    • A concept for providing a centralized point of access for impaired driving information from the time of a road-side stop through the adjudication and penalty/rehabilitation phase and into the driver history files.
    • A starting point or think piece for states to use when planning an impaired driver tracking system.
    • A data dictionary of candidate data elements and data codes which might be found within an impaired driver tracking system - citation, court, and driver licensing/history.
  • Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE)

    The Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) includes a listing of roadway inventory and traffic elements critical to safety management and proposes standardized coding for each.

  • National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)

    A partnership of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security designed to develop, disseminate and support enterprise-wide information exchange standards and processes that can enable jurisdictions to effectively share critical information in emergency situations, as well as support the day-to-day operations of agencies throughout the nation.

  • Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS)

    The HPMS is a national level highway information system that includes data on the extent, condition, performance, use, and operating characteristics of the Nation's highways. In general, the HPMS contains administrative and extent of system information on all public roads, while information on other characteristics is represented in HPMS as a mix of universe and sample data for arterial and collector functional systems. Limited information on travel and paved miles is included in summary form for the lowest functional systems.

    The major purpose of the HPMS is to support a data driven decision process within FHWA, the DOT, and the Congress. The HPMS data are used extensively in the analysis of highway system condition, performance, and investment needs that make up the biennial Condition and Performance Reports to Congress. These Reports are used by the Congress in establishing both authorization and appropriation legislation, activities that ultimately determine the scope and size of the Federal-aid Highway Program, and determine the level of Federal highway taxation.

  • NHTSA supports the use of uniform crash report form data elements and encourages the use of ANSI D-16 and D-20 standards. The purpose of ANSI-16, Manual On Classification Of Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents, is to provide a common language for collectors and users of traffic crash data. The purpose of ANSI D-20, Data Element Dictionary For Traffic Records Systems, is to provide a common set of element coding instructions as these relate to traffic safety, driver licensing and vehicle registration.