Safety Processes

Replacing Public Crash Facts

Various agencies use AASHTOWare Safety to provide Crash Facts through Dashboards.

Implementation Effort

• Requires moderate effort
• Timeline between 4-6 weeks*

* Assuming an agency has an existing, configured AASHTOWare Safety instance and all required data

Required Data

• Crash Data

Focus Areas

• Data Sharing
• Crash Fact Sheets

Process Overview

The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is using Dashboards to transform its approach to Crash Fact Sheets. Instead of publishing static Crash Fact Sheets annually, the agency have moved this data into a dynamic dashboard that automatically updates as new data becomes available. 

ITD published static Crash Fact Sheets annually. ITD program managers partnered with AASHTOWare Safety to develop individual dashboards that highlight each of their focus areas. 

Users can easily view crash data by district, county, city, or crash injury severity. The dashboard also displays other crash facts, such as contributing circumstances and driver age.  

“Accessing and understanding data is an important part of making safe choices. In an effort to help educate the public, the Office of Highway Safety makes its crash data publicly available, online and in print. The ITD Crash Data Dashboards are an online resource showing crash trends and data. The dashboard contains a series of dynamic charts, graphs, and maps. The dashboard allows users to apply their own filters to crash data for custom searches.”

– Idaho Transportation Department Website

This data is updated nightly, and anyone can access the dashboard at any time. Idaho’s public dashboards receive about 80 views weekly.

More information is available here:

• https://shift-idaho.org/do-the-math/
• https://itd.idaho.gov/safety/
• https://itd.aashtowaresafety.net/itd-safety-dashboards#/