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CONSENSUS AND ADVISORY STUDIES
Consensus Studies
Review of Electronically Controlled Pneumatic (ECP) Brakes
Domestic Transportation of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Ethanol
Performance-Based Safety Regulation
Review of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Air Traffic Control: Symposium on Organizational Reform Options
Evaluation of the Federal Railroad Administration R&D Program
Future Interstate
Inland Waterways
Innovative Urban Mobility Services: Issues and Opportunities
In-Service Performance of Energy-absorbing W-beam Guardrail End Treatments: Phase 1
Intercity Passenger Travel: Opportunities and Issues in Short-haul Markets
Long Term Bridge Performance Committee LTBP
Long Term Pavement Performance LTPP
Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Safety Culture
Polar Icebreaker Cost Assessment
Propane Gas Pipeline Facilities
Railroad Transportation Regulation
Real Time Monitoring of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (Federal Highway Administration)
Review of USDOT Report on Connected Vehicle Initiative Communications Systems Deployment
Review of USDOT Truck Size and Weight Study
Strengthening the FMCSA R&T Program
Research and Technology Coordinating Committee Letter Reports
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DIVISON ON BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND EDUCATION AND TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

Review of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Origin: Section 5221, Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, December 4, 2015

Statement of Task:

An ad hoc panel will carry out a consensus study in response to Section 5211 of the Fixing America's Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015.  The purpose of this study is to determine as best possible:
a. The accuracy with which the Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Category (BASIC) safety measures used by the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) Safety Management System (SMS): 
          i. Identify high risk carriers.
         ii. Predict or are correlated with future crash risk, crash severity, or other safety indicators for motor carriers, including the highest risk carriers.
  
b. The methodology used to calculate BASIC percentiles and identify carriers for enforcement, including the weights assigned to particular violations, and the tie between crash risk and specific regulatory violations, with respect to accurately identifying and predicting future crash risk for motor carriers.

c. The relative value of inspection information and roadside enforcement data.

d. Any data collection gaps or data sufficiency problems that may exist and the impact of those gaps and problems on the efficacy of the CSA program.

e. The accuracy of safety data, including the use of crash data from crashes in which a motor carrier was free from fault.  

f. Whether BASIC percentiles for motor carriers of passengers should be calculated separately than for motor carriers of freight.

g. The differences in the rates at which safety violations are reported to FMCSA for inclusion in the SMS by various enforcement authorities, including States, territories, and Federal inspectors.

h. How members of the public use the SMS and what effect making the SMS information public has had on reducing crashes and eliminating unsafe motor carriers from the industry.


 The study should also consider: 
a. Whether the SMS provides comparable precision and confidence, through SMS alerts and percentiles, for the relative crash risk of individual large and small motor carriers.

b. Whether alternatives to the SMS would identify high risk carriers more accurately. 

c. The recommendations and findings of the Comptroller General of the United States and the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation, and independent review team reports, issued before the date of the act.

The panel will issue a report with findings and recommendations at the end of the study.

STUDY COMMITTEE
The study committee for this project will be posted for public comment within two months at this website: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/

PROJECT INFORMATION
This project is a collaboration between the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) and the Transportation Research Board (TRB).  CNSTAT will lead the project and TRB will assist.  More information about CNSTAT is available at this webpage: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CNSTAT/index.htm

Current information about the project and the study committee is available at this link: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=49783


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