Project Introduction

The Center for Geospatial Information Technology at Virginia Tech (CGIT) is working in support of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles Highway Safety Office (DMV) to standardize the spatial attributes of all police reported crashes within the Commonwealth.

Trained CGIT employees will interpret the provided crash documentation to identify the best location to describe the first harmful event of a crash. Attributes from authoritative datasets, from organizations such as the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Virginia Geographic Information Network, will be assigned in order to provide a standardized record for each crash.

The data created by CGIT will be appended to the official crash documentation in TREDS (Traffic Records Electronic Data System), becoming available for highway safety officials across Virginia.