The Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has a requirement for Technical Support Services for NHTSA Traffic Records Program.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). NHTSA’s mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency develops, promotes and implements effective educational, engineering and enforcement programs with the goal of ending preventable tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. Today’s traffic safety professional needs reliable, accurate, and timely data to make decisions about traffic safety problems and countermeasures and to manage and evaluate safety programs. A State’s Traffic Records System encompasses the hardware, software, personnel, and procedures that capture, store, transmit, analyze, and interpret traffic safety data. The data that are managed by this system include the crash, driver licensing and history, vehicle registration and titling along with commercial motor vehicle, roadway, injury control, citation/adjudication, and exposure information. For traffic safety purposes, crash is at the center of this “honeycomb” of information. Additional data sets, such as those used to support data analysis are also important to consider.

A complete traffic records system collects and stores data from a variety of sources. Much of the data involved are collected for purposes other than (or in addition to) traffic safety. Thus, the traffic records system overlaps other areas of data collection and analysis and is dependent on the policies and practices used in collecting those data. Consequently, the traffic records system is usually a collaborative effort spread across a number of agencies and organizations. NHTSA has continued to support the development of State traffic records systems through many venues, including entry-level training for the traffic safety professional through the use of Traffic Records 101, the annual International Forum on Traffic Records and Highway Safety Information, technical assistance provided through regional and State focused workshops, and state traffic records assessments.

The purpose of this procurement is to provide technical support to NHTSA’s Traffic Records program, to include:

• Assessing state traffic safety systems,
• Providing technical assistance and outreach to state traffic records programs,
• Facilitating training for managers and staff of State traffic records systems,
• Respond to traffic record research requests, and
• Providing user support for NHTSA’s Traffic Records Improvement Program Reporting System (TRIPRS) portal that NHTSA and the States use to participate in traffic records assessments, the crash data improvement program, and other safety program assessments.