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SCHEDULE A Grant No: Exhibit II GRANT DESCRIPTION PAGE # PROBLEM STATEMENT Identify the traffic safety related problem or deficiency that the proposed grant is intended to correct. Identify and gather appropriate data relevant to the problem. Collision/fatalities data appropriate to the identified problem and a brief analysis of the data is required. When available, three years of data should be presented and analyzed. When identifying the problem, take into consideration changes in population, traffic patterns and other demographic dynamics that may affect traffic safety. The purpose of the subject grant is for the Department of Public Works (DPW) to assist the Hawaii Police Department (HPD) with purchasing GPS units to be used for crash location reporting. HPD currently does not use GPS for crash location reporting nor are correct street names consistently. The reason for DPW's involvement in this project and our push for more accurate crash location information is the Traffic Division's desires to: • Proactively implement safety improvement projects based on crash frequency, rate, and trend information. • Reduce the amount of our time spent post -editing the crash reports to resolve crash location errors. • Improve accuracy of location reporting. The plan is for DPW to purchase 100 GPS units for HPD. Transportation asset management software (RoadSoft GIS) has already been implemented by DPW and will be used to upload crash information to generate crash trend reports for project planning. GRANT GOALS Goals serve as the foundation upon which the grant is built. Goals are what you hope to accomplish by implementing a traffic safety grant and represent an end result. Grant goals should be stated in measurable terms (i.e., a percent reduction), be concise and deal with a specific item, be realistic with a reasonable probability of achievement, and be related to a specific timeframe (a "by " date). Please notate baseline from which the reduction/increase will result. One month's worth of HPD traffic crash reports takes 40 hours (480 hours per one year's worth of traffic crash reports) for one person to do editing to correct street name errors. If all of the objectives are met, the time spent for one person to conduct editing can be reduced by 50% or 20 hours per one month of reports (240 hours per one year of reports). With more complete traffic crash reports that include the proper fields needed to generate traffic crash frequency, rate, and trend reports, more effective traffic safety project identification and planning can be accomplished, resulting in better use of County budget/funding. Currently, only 7%-10% of the existing HPD traffic crash data can be properly mapped in RoadSoft GIS. Our goal is to be able to map 95%-100% of the future HPD traffic crash data. Being able to map traffic crash data is a key component in determining the accident frequency, rate, and trend information needed for safety improvement project planning. Properly mapped traffic crash data will also lead to more accurate reporting and eliminate sorting errors.