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You may have missed it, but in addition to being April Fool’s Day, this April 1st was also National Census Day.  What you probably haven’t missed are all the TV and radio ads talking about the importance of filling out the forms and how it can benefit your community.  Beyond all the publicity, the Census is really just a national housekeeping effort to make sure congressional seats and federal funding are allocated proportionately to populations throughout the U.S. Read more…

The golden rule of keeping it “apples to apples” is always an essential part of making a proper comparison of multiple items.  For the most part, this mentality has been widely utilized in the traffic safety world when analyzing intersection related traffic crashes.

Traffic engineers/planners and law enforcement officials primarily identify intersection related crashes through a pre-established distance from the center of the intersection and/or an officer’s selection of the crash being “intersection related” on the actual crash report.  Utilizing these criteria, network-wide analyses are then performed to identify the intersections with the highest crashes, crash severity, crash rate, etc.

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By Jim Santilli, Coordinator, Traffic Improvement Association, Michigan  

Lieutenant David Livingston demonstrates TCAT 2.0 to law enforcement officers at the Troy Police Department on Wednesday

Law Enforcement and Traffic Engineering Officials Receive Training on a Web-Based Crash Analysis Program

WATERFORD–In a continued effort to reduce traffic crashes in the state of Michigan, the Traffic Improvement Association (TIA) hosted a training session for the users of its newest Traffic Crash Analysis Tool (TCAT 2.0) on Monday.  The four-hour training session, which was held at the Oakland County Executive Office Building in Waterford, was designed to teach law enforcement and traffic engineering officials the capabilities of the new program. 

“Since 1967, TIA has made the availability of accurate and timely traffic crash data a high priority,” said Susan M. Cischke, group vice president of Sustainability, Environment, and Safety Engineering at Ford Motor Company, and chair of the TIA Board of Directors.  “With the advancement of computerized technology, TIA has made significant progress.”

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