02/15/2023
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced it won’t adopt a complex data collection method recommended in 2017 by a special National Academy of Sciences academic panel to calculate safety scores for motor carriers.
However, the agency said in a Feb. 14 notice that it will make changes to its motor carrier Safety Measurement System that will include using certain aspects of the complex data collection method known as the Item Response Theory.
Nearly five years later, the agency said it has studied and tested the provisions of the IRT model, but found that it “revealed many limitations and practical challenges.”
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced it won’t adopt a complex data collection method recommended in 2017 by a special National Academy of Sciences academic panel to calculate safety scores for motor carriers.