eTRIP Technology Infrastructure Projects

These projects specifically relate to the establishment of the infrastructure necessary to collect and process electronic tickets and collision reports. These projects are those most often associated with the actual “implementation” of the eTRIP Initiative.

Statewide Electronic Collision & Ticket Online Records Software

An early pilot project demonstrated the feasibility of issuing electronic citations and revealed several issues regarding the usability of the software. Officers noted that various “Windows-based” functions common to regularly used applications were not available in the pilot software. Feedback exposed other undesireable or missing characteristics that were not acceptable to law enforcement users.

As a result of this and other efforts, such as Washington’s technical infrastructure and definition of enterprise data sharing requirements, the TRC opted to pursue alternative solutions to rewriting the original pilot system by securing the services of a commercial provider to develop a custom application, complete with software source code. Several agencies have come together in the development of the Statewide Electronic Collision & Ticket Online Records (SECTOR) application. Washington State will acquire the source code to the application in order to minimize recurring service costs and maximize flexibility in implementation and maintenance. In addition, source code ownership means that SECTOR can be made available to law enforcement agencies statewide without licensing fees. The SECTOR application is an interview-based data entry system that utilizes the bar codes on the Washington State driver’s license and vehicle registration to speed data entry.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: AOC, DIS, DOL, WSDOT, WSP, and WTSC
Office: Various Executive, Business, and Information Technology Offices from all participating agencies
Phone Number: (360) 586-1704
Implementation Schedule: 10/2004 – 4/2007

SECTOR Hardware/Software Infrastructure at WSP/Local LEA

The Statewide Electronic Collision & Ticket Online Records (SECTOR) software application resides on in-vehicle computers to allow law enforcement officers to electronically issue citations and infractions and create collision reports. SECTOR consists of two major components. The first is the client unit that officers use to create electronic documents in the filed. The other component is a back office database and web service that collects, organizes, and transmits the electronic documents created by officers. As important as the client, the database is responsible for organizing and packaging the data in such a way as to be consumable by the respective statewide repositories. In addition, this back office database provides a robust interface through which various canned and ad hoc queries may be performed.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Patrol (WSP)
Office: Information Technology Division
Phone Number: (360) 705-5378
Implementation Schedule: 7/2005 – 9/2005

Web Services Architecture Design for tickets & collision reports

The Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) is a major participant in Washington’s Electronic Traffic Information Processing (eTRIP) Initiative. DOL maintains the state’s Driver database and is statutorily mandated to post all traffic citations and infractions and collision records on corresponding driver records. The current methods of receiving and processing these documents is costly, time consuming, and inefficient. This project will provide DOL with a design architecture, detailed project requirements, and functional specifications for the development of citation and collision report web services for the Driver database. This web service will interface with the JINDEX to exchange XML based citations, infractions and collision reports.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL)
Office: Driver Services Division
Phone Number: (360) 902-3763
Implementation Schedule: 7/2005 – 12/2005

Electronic Tickets Filing Infrastructure & Judicial Access Brower System (JABS)

AOC and various other state and local agencies are implementing the Electronic Traffic Information Processing (eTRIP) Initiative to address the various inefficiencies of paper-based data collection and exchange processes. This Initiative will allow law enforcement to issue citations and infractions and create collision reports electronically. Once these documents have been created electronically, law enforcement agencies will be capable of transmitting the data to the various agency repositories. These repositories, including the JIS system, will be able to electronically process and file the data without significant intervention or data entry.

This project provides the required hardware, software, and process changes to allow the JIS system and respective user courts to accept and process electronically transmitted citations and infractions. AOC will create a web service application to interface with the Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) platform to send and receive this information. Additionally, AOC is developing the Judicial Access Browser System (JABS) to organize and present electronically formatted data to court personnel and judges. JABS will provide an efficient system for viewing and processing electronic documents. The JABS system is vital to make electronic forms processing user-friendly and effective.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
Office: Information Services Division
Phone Number: (360) 705-5245
Implementation Schedule: 9/2005 – 4/2007

Service Additions to JINDEX to enable ticket/collision report exchanges

The Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) is the central message broker in a systems integration model built on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is defined as an architectural style whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents. SOA eliminates the need for point-to-point connections by utilizing a central broker and web services at the data provider and data consumer. JINDEX acts as a centralized message switch that orchestrates standards-based XML message exchanges across multiple agencies. These standards have been established through the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) developed by the Department of Justice. Each document utilizes a subset of the GJXDM in constructing its message schema.

This project will develop the necessary security-enabled web services and related functions including configurations and routing tables, audit tracking mechanisms, and other required components to enable the exchange of citations, infractions, and collision reports among eTRIP partner agencies. This project will develop various documents to allow additional partnering law enforcement agencies to efficiently develop services capable of interfacing with JINDEX to exchange citations, infractions and collision reports.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Department of Information Services (DIS)
Office: Management & Oversight of Strategic Technologies
Phone Number: (360) 902-3574
Implementation Schedule: 9/2005 – 5/2006

Electronic Citations Filing Infrastructure and Web Services

The Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) maintains the state’s driver database, tracking all licensed drivers. DOL is required to post all traffic citations and infractions and qualifying collision occurrences on the driver record. Currently, the processing of these documents is performed manually as disposition records and collision reports are received by mail. With over one million traffic citations and infractions and approximately 130,000 collisions, DOL experiences a substantial manual processing and data entry burden.

This project builds upon a previous project of investigating and designing web services architecture for the Department of Licensing. This web services will interface with the Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) platform to send and receive standards based XML documents. DOL will receive, via JINDEX, electronic collision records from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and electronic citation and infraction dispositions from the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). This phase of the web services design will focus on establishing a service to receive electronic citations from AOC.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL)
Office: Driver Services Division
Phone Number: (360) 902-3763
Implementation Schedule: 1/2006 – 12/2006

Electronic Collision Filing Infrastructure & Web Services

The Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) maintains the state’s driver database, tracking all licensed drivers. DOL is required to post all traffic citations and infractions and qualifying collision occurrences on the driver record. Currently, the processing of these documents is performed manually as disposition records and collision reports are received by mail. With over one million traffic citations and infractions and approximately 130,000 collisions, DOL experiences a substantial manual processing and data entry burden.

This project builds upon a previous project of investigating and designing web services architecture for the Department of Licensing. This web services will interface with the Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) platform to send and receive standards based XML documents. DOL will receive, via JINDEX, electronic collision records from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and electronic citation and infraction dispositions from the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). This phase of the web services design builds upon the previous phase of developing a web service for receiving electronic citations. This project will develop web services to receive electronic collision records from WSDOT.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL)
Office: Driver Services Division
Phone Number: (360) 902-3763
Implementation Schedule: 1/2006 – 12/2006

Electronic Collision Filing Infrastructure & Web Services in CLAS

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) maintains the statewide collision database that contains information from each reportable collision occurring on Washington’s roadways. Currently, WSDOT receives approximately 140,000 collision reports per year. Over 90 percent of these reports are created by law enforcement officers. These reports are all done on paper and then mailed to the Department of Transportation. Of the reports mailed to WSDOT, approximately 11 percent are returned, by mail, to the originating officer for corrections. As a result of these inefficiencies, WSDOT has helped lead an effort to address the multiple data entry redundancies and errors of the current system of collecting and processing paper collision reports.

This project will develop web services at the Department of Transportation for the exchange of electronic collision reports. The resulting web services will be capable of interfacing with the Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) message broker for the exchange of standards based XML documents. This project will also develop the necessary applications to automatically file electronically transmitted collision reports into the statewide repository.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Department of Trasnportation (WSDOT)
Office: Transportation Data Office
Phone Number: (360) 570-2497
Implementation Schedule: 1/2006 – 4/2007

Collision Diagramming Tool Statewide License for SECTOR Software

This project will procure a statewide license for a software application capable of creating an electronic collision diagram. This application will be packaged with SECTOR and made available for statewide release without licensing fees for individual agencies. The application will provide a set of tools for officers to created visual diagrams of collisions using in-vehicle computers. The collision diagram will then be packaged as an attachment to the XML based electronic collision report for delivery to WSDOT. The Washington State Patrol Training Division will provide the needed tests to determine which collision diagramming software is the best fit for the SECTOR application. The statewide license will be acquired for a minimum of three consecutive years. At the end of these three years, Washington State will evaluate the effectiveness of the application and either proceed to renegotiate a new license or pursue other alternative solutions.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Department of Trasnportation (WSDOT)
Office: Transportation Data Office
Phone Number: (360) 570-2497
Implementation Schedule: 1/2006 – 6/2006

SECTOR Support Personnel – Customer Support, System Administrators

The Washington State Patrol (WSP), in cooperation with several other state agencies, is engaged in the implementation of the Electronic Traffic Information Processing (eTRIP) Initiative. This effort focuses on reducing the inefficiencies of current paper-based methods of collecting and disseminating citations, infractions and collision reports. Central to the eTRIP Initiative is the development of the Statewide Electronic Collision & Ticket Online Records (SECTOR) software application. The SECTOR application will reside on the in-vehicle computers of law enforcement officers and allow these officers to efficiently issue citations and infractions and create collision reports electronically. Washington State has opted to acquire the source code to this application in order to minimize recurring service costs and maximize flexibility in implementation and maintenance. In addition, source code ownership means that SECTOR can be made available to law enforcement agencies statewide without licensing fees.

This project will provide WSP with two technical positions to assist in the initial maintenance, deployment, and support of SECTOR. WSP will acquire two Information Technology Specialists. The primary duties of these positions will be to assist the WSP lead project manager in final development, deployment and support planning, and maintenance of SECTOR. These positions will also develop documentation to accompany the statewide release and implementation of SECTOR at local law enforcement agencies. During deployment, both within WSP and in local law enforcement agencies, these positions will provide customer support. This support function will continue for the foreseeable future. WSP and the other partnering eTRIP agencies are creating a permanent funding package to present to the legislature for the next biennium. This package will take over funding for these positions and add needed resources as implementation expands throughout the state.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington State Patrol (WSP)
Office: Information Technology Division
Phone Number: (360) 705-5170
Implementation Schedule: 3/2006 – 7/2007

JINDEX Server “appliance” installation for electronic ticket exchanges

The administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is currently working with various other state agencies to implement the Electronic Traffic Information Processing (eTRIP) Initiative. The Electronic Traffic Information Processing (eTRIP) Initiative is a series of orchestrated projects aimed at addressing the inefficiencies of collecting and processing citations, infractions, and collision reports. The eTRIP Initiative utilizes the Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) platform as the centralized message broker to exchange these documents among the participating agencies. The JINDEX platform uses Microsoft BizTalk 2004 and functions on existing networks for messaging services. Messages exchanged among agencies through the JINDEX are structured using XML and SOAP messaging standards.

The Administrative Office of the Courts uses the J2EE standard for its development environment. The remaining eTRIP participants and the JINDEX platform utilize .NET. A variety of standards set at the JINDEX level are not supported by AOC’s current system architecture and network software. In order to comply with these standards, a special server “appliance” will be installed at AOC to handle the technical protocols associated with the XML and SOAP transactions of the web services.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
Office: Information Services Division
Phone Number: (360) 705-5245
Implementation Schedule: 3/2006 – 6/2006

JINDEX pre-production changes for eTRIP exchanges

The Justice Information Network Data Exchange (JINDEX) is the central message broker in a systems integration model built on Service Oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is defined as an architectural style whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents. JINDEX acts as a centralized message switch that orchestrated standards-based XML message exchanges across multiple agencies.

This project provides a critical update to the previous project that developed the necessary security-enabled web services and related functions including configuration and routing tables, audit tracking mechanisms, and other required components to enable the exchange of citations, infractions, and collision reports through JINDEX. This project specifically focuses on modifying the web services interface specification that enables the exchange of XML based messages. This modification more closely adheres to participant requirements while ensuring a standards-based and universal approach to the development of web services within participating eTRIP agencies.

Project Status: Completed
Project Lead: Washington Integrated Justice Information Board
Office: Justice Information Network (JIN) Program Office
Phone Number: (360) 902-3574
Implementation Schedule: 6/2006 – 6/2007