Grant12 State of CA, Dept of Traffic Safety

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' , General TR , SCHEDULE A Gx�vT No: TR1301 GRANT DESCRIPTION PAGE 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT The City of Redwood City does not possess adequate means to identify locations with a high incidence of collision and changing traffic patterns, or to analyze these locations and patterns in a timely and efficient manner. Our agency does not have an automated traffic records system which can be efficiently utilized to pinpoint and analyze high collision locations,thereby correlating these statistics to traffic controls or needed traffic safety improvement. Traffic engineering and police staff must compile information by labor intensive methods because of the limitations of current resources. The inability to work with timely collision data when attempting to identify and address traffic safety issues has severely limited the ability of both the traffic engineering and the police department's personnel to proactively address critical traffic safety issues within our jurisdiction. PERFORMANCE MEASURES GRaIVT Goai,s 1. To reduce the number of persons killed in traffic collisions. 2. To reduce the number of persons injured in traffic collisions. GRANT OBJECTIVES 1. To reduce the time it takes to identify high collision locations,produce special and statistical analyses, and collision reseaxch from 150 hours to 30 hours. The corresponding salary savings are to be tracked and reported. 2. To provide the ability to generate and disseminate daily, weekly, monthly or annual activity reports by September 30 of each grant year. Reports should be customizable and contain data relevant to traffic enforcement and/or traffic engineering activities. 3. To implement a software application to provide a report identifying the number and severity of collisions occurring at the 10 most critical locations. 4. To utilize a software program which includes the ability to correlate collisions with components such as roadway design, signal timing, visibility, traffic volumes, weather conditions and other relevant factors not within the control of the drivers. 5. To establish regular meetings between the Police Department and the Department of Public Works to share the collected traffic related data. 6. To enable the secure and confidential exchange of collision data between agencies. 7. To ensure the network system includes a relational database management system(RDMS) for storing and processing data. 8. To identify 3 high traffic collision locations to be improved, scheduled for improvement or recommended for improvement. 9. To increase the number of traffic collision locations analyzed from 0 to 10 OTS-38b(Rev. 8/09)