III. What are the applications for A&I Online?

  3.1   Access a list of interstate carriers ranked according to their safety status

  3.2   Access a specific carrier's SafeStat results

  3.3   Access a specific carrier's safety fitness history

  3.4   Review the Crash profile of a specific state

  3.5   Identify the carriers that are having the most crashes in a selected state

  3.6   Support the development of Safety Plans or Commercial Vehicle Safety Plans (CVSP)

  3.7   Review a specific state's Compliance Review (CR) activity by safety rating
         and compare the results to other states.

  3.8   Review a specific state’s Roadside Inspection (RI) activity and compare the
         results to other states.

  3.9   Review a specific state's Traffic Enforcement (TE) activity as compared to
         the total number of roadside inspections

3.10   Compare the commercial zone vehicle OOS inspection rate for state and
         federal personnel in Texas

3.11   Compare the top 10 Vehicle OOS Violations for U.S. DOT Motor Carriers
         by Carrier Domicile

3.12   Review the border crossing statistics for Nogales, AZ

3.13   Access MCSAFE

3.6 Support the development of Safety Plans or Commercial Vehicle Safety Plans

FMCSA and MCSPA funded programs are required to develop safety plans on an annual basis. A&I Online can support the safety plan development process in the following ways:

1. Identify commercial motor vehicle safety/crash problems within each state

State crash reports are designed to provide summarized information on a state's crashes to better identify where the problem areas are within a state. There are over 40 state crash reports that can help to identify problem areas for a state. All data are summarized and compared with the national crash totals to identify areas where a specific state might have a safety problem area that can be targeted for improvement.

Example:

1. Select Crash Profiles Online from the Main Menu.

2. Click on State Profiles from within the Crash Profiles module.

3. From State Crash Reports, select a state and year from the pull-down menus. Review the reports in each of the focus areas and highlight areas with high numbers of crashes. For example, select the report titled First Harmful Event from the Crash Focus Area.

4. Notice that the Collision involving Pedestrian category is an area that is highlighted because the percent difference between California's value and USA's value is greater than or equal to 25 percent. Review the report's previous years' data by selecting a different date from the date pull-down menu.

5. This category can be identified as one that they would like to improve upon in the future.

2. Monitor/assess the strategy for improving safety performance in the identified safety/crash problem areas

Historical data is presented in the crash profiles that will allow an identified problem area to be monitored over time.

Example: In the Large Trucks Involved in Crashes by First Harmful Event report the Collision involving Pedestrian category could be used to monitor the number of crashes recorded with a "Collision involving Pedestrian" as the first harmful event over the next three years to measure improvement.