NTL Record

Title Highway Safety Information System Guidebook for the California State Data Files. Volume 2: Single Variable Tabulations
Record ID 11193
Personal Name
Creator
Council, Forrest M.; Williams, Carolyn D.; Chen, Li Wan; Mohamedshah, Yusuf M.
Source 272p. in various pagings
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Publication Date 20000500
Language English
Abstract The California database incorporated in the Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) is derived from the California TASAS (Traffic Accident Surveillance and Analysis System). The system, maintained by the Traffic Operations Office of Caltrans, is a mainframe-based system based on COBOL programming. The Traffic Operations Office provides the data to HSIS in the form of two different data files. These contain (1) accident data and (2) roadway inventory data. Beginning in 1994, the HSIS was converted to a relational database for internal use. This database, using a SYBASE system, stores the data received from California and other States, and the data files for a given State are linked and manipulated using SQL language. However, this conversion from the original SAS-based system to the newer relational system is somewhat transparent to the end-user of the data since the output files produced by SYBASE for modeling and analysis will be SAS formatted. SAS format libraries are produced for each of the variables in each of the files. This Guidebook concerns these SAS files - their formats, completeness, and quality. This report, Volume II, contains the single variable tabulations. Volume I, SAS File Formats, contains an introduction, details of major files, California contacts, a composite list of variables, accident files (accident subfile, vehicle subfile, and occupant subfile), roadlog file, intersection file, and interchange ramp file.
Rosap ID dot:4826
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4826
TRT Terms Crash data; Highway safety; Datasets; Statistics
General Subjects Accident data; California; Data files; File formats; Interchanges; Intersections; Inventory; Roads; Traffic accidents
Classification NTL - REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES - Statistics;
NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - Accidents;
NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - Highway Safety;
NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - SAFETY AND SECURITY
Geographical
Coverage
California
OCLC 52133904
TRIS Online
Accession No
806445
Report Number FHWA-RD-00-138
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/11000/11100/11193/009886.pdf
Alternative URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/17000/17800/17825/PB2001104628.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository