The Safety Portal is organized around NHTSA's six core traffic records data systems (illustrated here using NHTSA's new iconography). To access the related brochure for each system component, click on the icon (below, left).

vehicle

history, registration, and owner data

driver

history and license data

roadway

highways, roads, and streets inventory data

crash

law enforcement reports data

citation & adjudication

ticket-through-courts data

injury surveillance

vehicle-related injuries, fatalities, and emergency medical response data

NHTSA uses 61 performance measures, grouped into six performance attributes, across the six core traffic record data systems (see above). To access NHTSA's definition of each measure, click on the icon (below, left).

timeliness

span of time between an occurrence and information entry into the appropriate database

accuracy

degree that data are error-free, consistent, and not duplicated within the database

completeness

number of records that are missing and the number of blank data elements in the records

uniformity

consistency among files or records in a database, measured against an independent standard

integration

ability of records in a database to be linked to records in another of the six core databases

accessibility

ability of principal users to obtain desired data, measured in terms of customer satisfaction

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