CMISST - Center for the Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation
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Improving fuel efficiency
Promoting longer vehicle & road life
Impacting safe & efficient mobility
Guiding data-driven improvements

Tools & Resources

CMISST offers data query tools, dataset access, and methods for dataset integration, that allow researchers to quickly find answers to pressing issues in transportation safety and sustainability.

Data Analysis Tools
CMISST Data GUI
The CMISST Data GUI allows users to study and manipulate different datasets, including FARS, NASS, many state crash data sets. FARS 2009 is available as a sample for users who are not yet affiliated with CMISST.
Data Query Tool
The Michigan Crash Facts Data Query Tool allows users to build queries of motor vehicle crashes, then view the results on a map, in a table, or on a graph. Users may also download subsets of the data and the actual (sanitized) police reports. Build a query
FARS Variable History Lookup
The FARS variable history lookup tool tracks changes in the names of variables and their values over time. Currently the tool is populated with information from 1975 through 2009. Try it out
UTMOST
The Unified Theory Mapping Opportunities for Safety Technology (UTMOST) model was developed to aid in visualizing the effects of safety countermeasures and combinations of countermeasures. As UTMOST is updated and expanded, it will be used to identify how safety countermeasures interact, how they affect the crash population, and whether one or more technologies offer the greatest benefit. UTMOST
Database Resources
Available Crash Datasets
NASS: 1979-1987 NASS CDS: 1988-2011 NASS GES: 1988-2010 FARS: 1975-2011 States: Datasets are available for numerous states spanning many years. For a list of all available datasets, click here

The datasets for Buses and Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents are available for free public use.
Buses Involved in Fatal Accidents (BIFA)
Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents (TIFA)

Downloadable Datasets
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