The following tools are currently available on TIMS:
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The purpose of this tool is to allow basic querying and mapping of fatal or injury collisions in the California Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS). Users can select by time frame, location, and other collision factors to produce a subset table from SWITRS. The associated collision, party and victim data files can be downloaded. There is also the option to create a pin map of the collisions in Google Maps. |
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SWITRS GIS Map
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) style map provides a more map-centric approach to viewing and querying the SWITRS fatal and injury collision data. Users select a county and then have the ability to perform the same query actions in the SWITRS Query & Map tool. There are also options to symbolize the collisions by different types, show other spatial information layers (census tracts, traffic analysis zones, schools, etc.), and spatially select collisions to download using standard GIS operations. |
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The California Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) guides safety activities for all users on all public roadways in California. More information on the program can be found here: http://www.dot.ca.gov/SHSP/. As part of SHSP, different challenge areas have been developed to address issues related to specific types of road users or collisions. The purpose of this SHSP Data Viewer tool is to provide an interactive experience to visualize summaries and trends for the challenge areas over the years. The tool provides a summary map by county, annual trends, crash and victim counts, and an individual point collision map for a county to view and download the actual collision data.
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The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) is a publically available national database of all fatal collisions that occur on public roadways. FARS is compiled from state collision data by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and extensive summaries are provided on their website at: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx. They also provide web-based maps of collisions from the past 3 years on their site. The FARS visualizations on TIMS allows users to visualize where collisions occur and explore aggregate information for collision counts and rates over time and by state. |
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The benefit/cost calculator is an interactive tool that can be used to derive a benefit/cost ratio for potential safety improvement construction projects. The b/c ratio will take into account a project's overall benefit and divide it by the project's overall cost. Users have the ability to directly import collision data from the TIMS mapping applications to aid in the calculation. The tool was developed in conjunction with the California Department of Transportation's Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) call for projects. For more information, see their site at http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/LocalPrograms/hsip.htm. |
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