What is NASS?
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:46 am
Split from prior combined 'What is' about PDOF and NASS (now topic is What is PDOF?)
What is NASS?
What is NASS?
- NASS is the NHTSA National Accident Sampling System
- Note in 2016 NHTSA renamed NASS as CISS and added a Crash Viewer page
- Collecting Relevant Data and Information
- The National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) provides NHTSA an efficient and reusable resource with which to conduct data collection representing a broad spectrum of American society. Using a core set of crash data components, NASS has proven a reliable resource for a variety of agency sponsored electronic data collection efforts over the past 10 years.
NASS is composed of two systems - the Crashworthiness Data System (CDS) and the General Estimates System (GES). These are based on cases selected from a sample of police crash reports. CDS data focus on passenger vehicle crashes, and are used to investigate injury mechanisms to identify potential improvements in vehicle design. GES data focus on the bigger overall crash picture, and are used for problem size assessments and tracking trends.
- The National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) provides NHTSA an efficient and reusable resource with which to conduct data collection representing a broad spectrum of American society. Using a core set of crash data components, NASS has proven a reliable resource for a variety of agency sponsored electronic data collection efforts over the past 10 years.