February 14th-15th, 2005 NYS TraCS Steering Committee, Syracuse, NY

Highway Safety Management in New York There is a need to improve New York’s current traffic ticket and accident reporting system that relies on costly, inefficient manual paper processes. Dan [front left] has been working with the Traffic and Criminal Software ( TraCS) Team since 2001.

Timely and accurate data is essential to effective strategic planning. Too many revoked and suspended drivers continue to drive undetected. Prolonged traffic stops place officers in harms way and sometimes lead to injury or death.

To remedy this, the New York State Police is heading a coalition of several agencies to bring the Traffic and Criminal Software system “TraCS” to New York. TraCS is an automated data collection system that includes electronic ticket and accident forms, DWI forms, arrest and incident forms, commercial vehicle inspection forms, and the use of GPS devices and GIS maps.

Since February 2000, the “TraCS Team” has been working to create universal electronic ticket and accident reporting forms in TraCS for use throughout the state by all police agencies.

A data movement infrastructure has been developed that will allow police agencies to send their ticket and accident data electronically to a central repository. The central repository will send the data electronically to DMV, DOT and the Office of Court Administration (for forwarding to the respective local courts). 

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