"Both public safety and transportation agencies need quick and accurate information to fulfill their missions to protect the public, safeguard crash sites, and respond appropriately to emergency situations. In Utah, the departments of public safety and transportation collaborated to optimize data-sharing by integrating their computer-aided dispatch systems. We've been able to work through territorial issues and realize that sharing resources and working together actually makes our jobs easier."
Stephen Fletcher, Chief Information Officer, State of Utah
Based on the notion of improving transportation and safety through the sharing of road condition, weather and incident information with as many transportation and public safety practitioners as possible, CommuterLink first demonstrated its effectiveness during the 2002 Winter Olympics. The success of CommuterLink lies not only in the extensive network of closed circuit television cameras, dynamic message signs, road weather information systems and traffic monitoring stations, but also in how all of this information is managed and shared amongst the partners.
More recently, UDOT worked with five partners to optimize the sharing of data through a $1.3 million federal- and state-funded field operational test (FOT) to integrate their computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems. The goal of the FOT was to automate the notification and sharing of information between CAD systems through electronic data interfaces. Project partners had to come to a consensus on what data were needed, and how to share and guarantee data security.
An assessment performed in 2004 by the University of Utah showed that CommuterLink generates an annual cost savings of $179 million, for a benefit - cost ratio of 16.7 to 1. An important part of these savings are safety benefits, including the prevention of 948 accidents and 3.1 fatalities per year.
OTHER NOMINATIONS:
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Alabama
Centralized Email System
Arkansas
eOMIS/JusticeXchange
Arizona
EZ Voter
Florida
Domestic Violence Information System (DVIS)
Iowa
PJCASE System
Michigan
Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS)
Missouri
State Highway Patrol's Traffic Arrest System/Driving While Intoxicated Tracking System
North Carolina
Flood Plain Mapping
New York
DOITT solves Remote Access woes for 60 NYC agencies
Pennsylvania
Implementing PA GJXDM
Virginia
Educational Information Management System
Wisconsin
Retirement System (WRS) Employer Reporting System
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