FMCSA Safety and Security Accomplishments

Office of Research and Analysis
Washington, DC
January 22, 2005

Analysis Division Highlights

Tom Keane
Acting Chief, Analysis Division

FMCSA Analysis Division

• FMCSA Mission
  • Save lives and reduce injuries by preventing large truck and bus crashes
• FMCSA Performance Goal
  • Reduce the large truck fatality rate by 41% from 1996 to 2008
• Analysis Division Support
  • Economic Analysis of Regulations
  • Data Quality Improvements & Dissemination
  • Program Effectiveness Studies
  • Special Studies & Crash Data Analyses

Economic Analysis for Regulations

2005 Major Accomplishments

• Hours of Service (Proposed Rule)
• Hours of Service (Final Rule)
• Unified Registration System (Proposed Rule)

Data Quality

2005 Major Accomplishments

• Involves grant programs, studies, and other initiatives, with the objective to improve the quality of CMV data collected by the States and FMCSA
• Primary focus is crash data improvement

Program Effectiveness

2005 Major Accomplishments

• Compliance Review Model
  • Measures direct safety impacts of Compliance Reviews
    • Crashes prevented
    • Injuries avoided
    • Lives saved
  • No indirect (deterrent) effects included
  • Updated to include CY 2002 Compliance Reviews

Compliance Reviews

CY 2002 – 2003

Roadside Intervention Model

• Measures safety impacts
  • Roadside inspections
  • Traffic enforcements
• Output
  • Crashes prevented
  • Injuries avoided
  • Lives saved
• Results based on crash probabilities
• Updated to include CY 2004 Interventions

Roadside Interventions

Special Studies & Crash Data Analyses

2005 Major Accomplishments

• Motor Carrier Industry Profile Study
  • Safety performance analysis by commodity segment
  • Safety-financial performance linkage study
• Large Truck Crash Causation Study

Economic Analysis for Regulations

2006 Major Projects

• Electronic On-Board Recorders (Proposed)
• HOS Supporting Documents (Final)
• New Entrant Safety Assurance (Proposed)
• Intermodal Chassis Roadability (Proposed)

Program Effectiveness

2006 Major Projects

• Violations Severity Assessment Study
  • Relationship between violations and crashes
  • Will serve as input to CSA 2010 Effort
  • May update Roadside Intervention Model

Special Studies and Analyses

2006 Major Projects

• Large Truck Crash Causation Study
• Bus Crash Causation Study
• Motor Carrier Industry Profile Study
  • Complete Industry Technology & Safety Survey

Results of Studies Available

• http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov
  • "Analysis Results & Reports"
  • "Program Measures" (CR and RI Model Results)
• Contact:
  • Tom Keane
  • Tom.Keane@fmcsa.dot.gov
  • Phone: (202) 366-4025