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OFFICE OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE TURNER-FAIRBANK HIGHWAY RESEARCH CENTER

Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) Award Winners

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) hosts the annual Excellence in Highway Safety Data Award Contest to introduce university and community college students to the field of highway safety research. The contest solicits students to use data sourced from the Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) to investigate and develop original research in a topic that advances highway safety. HSIS includes data from California, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington, and the city of Charlotte, NC: https://highways.dot.gov/research/safety/hsis/data.

Past winners and their papers can be found by clicking the drop-downs below. If you are interested in participating, please see the following link for more details on how to enter the contest: https://highways.dot.gov/research/safety/hsis/Excellence-Awards.

 


About HSIS

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HSIS is a safety database that contains crash, roadway inventory, and traffic volume data for a select group of States and cities. The participating agencies were selected based on the quality and quantity of data available, and their ability to merge data from various files. FHWA uses the HSIS to support the FHWA safety research program and provides input for program policy decisions.

The FHWA has used HSIS data to analyze a large number of safety problems. These safety problems can range from the more basic "problem identification" issues to identifying the size and extent of a safety problem to modeling efforts that attempt to predict future crashes from roadway characteristics and traffic factors.

The FHWA also provides HSIS data to professionals conducting research under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, universities, and others studying highway safety. Results from many of the studies have been used to develop new safety policies and establish improved safety practices.

The HSIS Research Paper Competition is jointly administered by FHWA and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.