The Utah LTAP center is dedicated to bringing safety solutions to local agenies without the money to buy the big expensive tools. We offer a FREE geographic information system with plugins for Crash analysis, Signs management and inventory, Intersection analysis, Road Safety Audits, ADA Ramp management, and more. If you would like to use these tools to improve the safety of your county, please contact us at
The Crash Tools Plug-in has tools for inventorying crash locations on the map,
updateing itself from almost any electronic formatted data. It has several
reporting options, and analysis tools that include:
Strip Analysis
EPDO Analysis
Crash Frequency Analyzer/Weighted Hazard Index Tool
Part of the Crash Tools Plugin Is the Intersection analysis tool. This tool allows you
to attribute that intersection, the legs of the intersection, and each lane of the
intersection so that It will show up like the real one in a report. It allows you
to do a EPDO and Crash Rate Ranking for each intersection based on the Crashes in the
vicinity and the number of entering vehicles into the intersection. It has a Warrant
study tool that will ask simple questions about the intersection and it can tell you if
it warrants a Yield, Stop, 4-way Stop, or Signal intersection.
The Signs Plugin is a complete package for signs management. It allows you to inventory
the locations/conditions and other important attributes for Signs and Supports On the map.
The tool allows you to keep a history of all changes made to a sign or support. It allows
you to keep photos, and files stored with the sign they belong to. It has a book-keeping
tool that lets you keep track of how many signs/supports of a specific type you have on
hand in your shop inventory. It has reporting tools that allow you to print out a list
of the signs inspected by an inspector and any extra work done on the sign. There is a
Warrant Life tool that allows you to figure out how many signs will be expiring in a given
date range and how much it will cost to fix them. There are Merging tools that allow you
to merge two signs projects together.
Designed to Collect the same data as the FHWA RSA software, This Plug-in has been appended
to displayed on a GIS base, keep track of photos by location and by Issue, Hold important
files photos, and other documents relevant to a RSA Project. This Plug-in allows you to
create Benefit/Cost Worksheets for suggested work for each RSA Location. This tool interacts
with our Crash plugin and pulls in crash information from the area surrounding the report
to fill out parts of those worksheets initially.
This plugin allows you to inventory, and prioritize ADA ramp locations, and keep track
of any changes made to those locations on the map. This tool allows you to keep Photos and
any other type of file associated with a ramp location.
GPS Plug-in
This plugin allows you to connect to a USB GPS device, Track your position on the
map, and mark the path that was taken from your starting position to your current
position. Part of this tool is a Photo Logger tool that will allow you to connect
to a simple webcam and take photos at regular distance intervals along a road to
create a visual log of that road.
Location Tool
All of our Plug-ins use a single location tool which allows you to locate an event
by several options:
