Thank you for visiting our Web site. CRDL was founded in 2002 to work with federal, state and local agencies to provide access to current research and cutting-edge software technology in the areas of transportation safety, public safety and homeland security. We are proud that our efforts have been extremely successful in bringing the latest in technology to transportation and law enforcement agencies all over Alabama, as well as to partners in a number of other states. Our tremendously successful electronic citation project developed in conjunction with the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts and the Alabama Department of Public Safety is being used all over the state, and includes quite sophisticated court automation components, as well as GIS-based planning tools to assist law enforcement in managing and deploying officers. Efforts to expand the deployment of this popular product are currently underway, with the exceedingly generous support of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.
We have also been involved in several major initiatives sponsored by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) to put the latest technology-based tools in the hands of field law enforcement officers. This work has included a significant three-way partnership between ACJIC, CRDL and the Alabama Department of Homeland Security to deploy technology solutions to address potential terrorist threats, as well as to provide first responder support for disaster situations.
Our work with our award-winning CARE crash data analysis software, in conjunction with the Alabama Department of Transportation, has been vitally important to transportation safety program planning efforts on a statewide basis. The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs has also played a pivotal role in transportation safety program planning at the state and local levels, and we are proud to have partnered with them to provide data analysis support for their efforts.
In terms of new research areas, we are forging ahead to find new approaches to safety data analysis, particularly in the area of optimal officer deployment. We want to find new approaches to putting officers in the field in places where they can best save lives and property. We are working not only to determine this information but to make it easily and readily accessible to officers in the field.
Again, we are extremely proud to have played a major role in public safety technology around our great state. We appreciate the support of the above mentioned agencies and our many other partner agencies at the state, local and federal levels, and look forward to working with them in the future to help make Alabama residents safer.
Welcome to our Website, and we hope you enjoy looking at some examples of our work. Please stop back often.