• Collective problem Identification, project evaluation, and programmatic decision making at both the State and Federal levels.
• Educate and inform traffic safety decision makers at all levels be they engineers (roadway, car manufacturers, etc..), enforcement, EMS, or outreach educators.
• Support traffic safety legislation: Using data analyses persuasively to create awareness of issues facing our country at the State and Federal levels as well as sharing potential solutions to those problems.
• Creates a data sharing network and integrated system (data warehouse) that avoids unnecessary duplication of costs and personnel administration.
• Use of reliable data sources to support integration, accuracy, comprehension, timeliness, uniformity, and accessibility.
• Published reports of CODES Exemplary or Promising Practices.

CODES BENEFITS TO STATES:

Cooperative statements of work between NHTSA and CODES agencies will provide support to:

• Assist States in creating a data sharing network and integrated system (data warehouse) that avoids unnecessary duplication of costs and personnel administration.
• Use reliable data sources to support to Highway Safety Offices with their ability to identify, prioritize, and evaluate.
• Guide states in meeting mandated FHWA, NHTSA, GHSA, and State Highway Safety Offices 408, 410, 402, SHSP, HSP performance measures reporting requirements
• Access data that is unparalleled to any other data source available: CODES data uses probabilistic linkage with multiple imputation
• Participate in technical training and support in the use of imputation techniques, probabilistic linkage and an understanding of how to apply linked data to individual State Highway safety applications.
• Be identified as the CODES data warehouse positioned as the premiere program that is able to support the functions for FHWA, NHTSA, and State Highway Safety Offices

When linkage and analysis techniques are mastered, CODES data can be used for analyses involving:

• Injury severity and body region
• Hospital charges
• Specific injury-related issues such as seat belt and motorcycle helmet differences in injuries
• Any crash-related issue in which more detailed injury data or injury cost data is useful
• Crash characteristics by program area
• Inclusion of licensing, citation, vehicle registration data for problem ID and evaluation