Safety Status Measurement System (SafeStat) is an automated analysis system developed for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The system combines current and historical safety performance data to measure the relative safety fitness of interstate commercial motor carriers. SafeStat enables the FMCSA to quantify and monitor the safety status of motor carriers and guides the deployment of resources to focus on carriers posing the greatest safety risk.

SafeStat evaluates the relative safety status of individual motor carriers with respect to the rest of the motor carrier population in four analytic Safety Evaluation Areas (SEAs): Accident, Driver, Vehicle, and Safety Management. The system uses up to 30 months of motor carrier safety and normalizing data to develop measures and indicators in the four SEAs. The four SEA values are then combined into an overall safety status assessment, known as a SafeStat score.

Access to SafeStat results can be found on the Internet at the Analysis & Information (A&I) Web site: http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov. Clicking on the "SafeStat Online" button provides you with the ability to find detailed SafeStat results for all interstate motor carriers, along with the specific safety data (e.g. crashes, inspections, etc.) used to assess the safety status of each motor carrier. Also available on the A&I Web site is a downloadable version of the latest SafeStat methodology document that provides a complete description of SafeStat.

Further information is available from Bryan Price of the FMCSA, (412) 395-4816.