Intro

Informal Opening Discussion

Arrivals and Departures

Bras Richter is the CRU’s newest member, an IS Business Automation Senior, filling the vacancy created when Soujanya departed.

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Jacob Clausen has resigned to take a private sector job in Colorado.

Crash DB Systems Review

TraCS Systems and Crash Form development

Dave Malisch / Geri Polster

Fall Pack Release, second pack out for testing.

Get tables and F2 Help documents. By Thursday of next week.

TOPS Database and WisTransPortal

Steven Parker / Andi Bill

Maintenance Updates and System Stability

Prioritized JIRA Issues and Enhancements

Purge and Archiving Processes

HWYCLASS Working Group

WisTransPortal / Community Maps

Crash Records Unit

Brad Richter / Polly Ebbinger / Mike Satteson

Issue Resolution Summary

Issue Type

New since 8/23

Resolved since 8/23

Remaining

Document # Reuse*

41

44

11

Retransmissions

55

55

0

Potential Duplicate

1

0

1

LE Questions

6

5

1

Informatica Data Catalog Project

The CRU has just started work with BITS and Informatica to catalog the crash database:

A critical goal of this project is to get our database into compliance with DOA Standards for data security classification. As part of this work, each field in the database will need to be assigned a security classification ranging from public to confidential.

But we intend to get much more out of this project.

Fatality Case Management and Reporting

Out sole FARS analyst was on leave for the first half of September. This has put me too much is the weeds to provide a formal analysis and metrics. But I can provide some anecdotal highlights.

The Daily Fatality Report

The old access database is now fully relegated to legacy reporting. It is quite demanding to maintain. But we are keeping it alive to maintain reporting continuity as we develop new reports. We be changing delivery mechanisms. Starting on Monday, 30 September, reports will be distributed using Lyris rather than being manually setup and mailed through Outlook.

Cause of Death Review

We continue to push to obtain a confirmed cause of death for each fatality in our case management system as soon as is practical. We’ve set an internal goal of having confirmed cause of death for 95% of fatalities within 4 months of the death. This goal is structured to allow us to be in an excellent position to align FARS cases to state crash data for a given calendar year prior to state data finalization. This will be a challenging goal to achieve with our current capabilities. Obtaining wider access to DHS Vital Records Death Certificates would make this goal achievable and significantly decrease the time and effort required to confirm cause of death. We plan to track our performance and the resources required for this work to develop a justification for expanded access to these Vital Records data.

A Fort McCoy Fatal Crash, is it reportable?

On 8 September we received a fatal notification from the Fort McCoy PD of a crash that occurred at about 02:12 on the 7th at “GINGER RD\STH 21”. The source of the notification implied that this crash occurred on the fort, so we put the case under review rather than announcing it. Follow-up with the agency indicated that the crash occurred on the Fort McCoy Military Reservation but outside of the the fenced area of the fort. Depending upon how one interprets statutes and guidance, this may or may not have been a motor vehicle traffic crash fatality.

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By my interpretation of ANSI D16 this would be A FARS reportable crash, but the state maps strongly imply that this would not be traffic crash by State standards. We are consulting with NHTSA FARS experts to get a ruling from them on whether this was a trafficway or private way crash.

DMV Systems and SR

Ken Matthews

Reference Point Coding

Ben Rouleau / Asadur Rahman

08/22-09/25 period summary

 Jacob: 173 (last coded 09/03)

Jack McCaffrie: 2,728

Lukas Wellenstein: 3,848

Tristan: 624

Thresa Majeski: 1,731

 Total: 9,101

 RP coding needed - 2024: 11,533.

Crash Data Analysis and Reporting

Valerie Payne

Scheduled Topics and Briefing documents

Close

Informal Closing Discussion