CHOP and HTS to Create Innovative Center to Promote Traffic Safety Across the State
PHILADELPHIA, March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety (HTS) are proud to announce the creation of a new center that will feature an interactive data dashboard to visualize, monitor, and track progress in traffic safety across communities and over time, with the intention of improving health and safety for all New Jersey residents.
- The NJ-SHO Center for Integrated Data will expand the use of these data and provide information about injuries and safety to stakeholders through a publicly accessible website and interactive online dashboard.
- "We look forward to the next chapter of our decade-long partnership with HTS to improve health and safety by linking data in innovative ways."
- CIRP has already collaborated with a multitude of state agencies and community partners to accomplish the extraordinary data linkage required.
- "Establishing the NJ-SHO Center for Integrated Data, and the data dashboard within it, fulfills an important objective of our state's Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) to address traffic safety data quality, integration, and accessibility," says Michael J. Rizol, Jr., Director of HTS.