FFY27 State Traffic Safety Information System Improvements Grant Program

The Office of Grants and Research (OGR) is offering a grant program to improve the State Traffic Safety Information System in Massachusetts. The program is funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and is available to units of state and local government, state higher educational institutions, or 501(c)(3) organizations in Massachusetts. The grant will support projects that make data program improvements relating to quantifiable, measurable progress in the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, uniformity, accessibility, or integration of traffic records data in the core state highway safety databases. Some key areas of focus for the grant program include: • Software or applications to identify, collect, and report data to State and local government agencies and enter data into State core highway safety databases • Purchasing equipment to improve a process by which data are identified, collated, and reported to State and local government agencies • Improving the compatibility and interoperability of the core highway safety databases of the State with national data systems and data systems of other States • Enhancing the ability of a State and the Secretary to observe and analyze local, State, and national trends in crash occurrences, rates, outcomes, and circumstances • Supporting traffic records improvement training and expenditures for law enforcement, emergency medical, judicial, prosecutorial, and traffic records professionals • Hiring traffic records professionals for the purpose of improving traffic information systems • Adoption of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria or providing to the public information regarding why any of those criteria will not be used, if applicable • Supporting reporting criteria relating to emerging topics, including impaired driving and advanced technologies present on motor vehicles • Conducting research relating to State traffic safety information systems, including developing programs to improve core highway safety databases and processes by which data are identified, collected, reported to State and local government agencies, and entered into State core safety databases.