Who we are

The Center for Road Safety (CRS), affiliated with the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, conducts research and develops engineering tools in the area of road safety, including driver, vehicle, and roadway-related characteristics. CRS has extensive expertise in identification of factors that affect safety, development and design of safety databases, and development and implementation of computer-based tools to assist in all aspects of safety management and planning. Utilizing the latest methodological techniques, CRS can deliver user-friendly computer tools customized to end-user conditions and needs.

CRS has extensive experience with storing and processing massive amount of data and meeting strict security requirements and uses a vast assortment of software to take on the most intensive data processing and numeric computational tasks. Its affiliation with the Purdue University School of Civil Engineering affords CRS full access to the hardware and software resources available through the extensive and sophisticated Purdue Engineering Computing Network (ECN).

CRS provides services to a wide variety of local, state, and federal agencies, including counties, cities, the Indiana Department of Transportation, the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Federal Motor Carriers Association.