# VIA Software > Canonical: https://www.via.nl/usa/en/products/via-software Road safety starts with insight. - Crash data updated daily - Cities, counties and law enforcement - CHP crash records and HERE data combined ## One platform for road safety VIA Software brings together the most important data sources for road safety in one environment. Cities, counties, regional agencies and law enforcement work with the same numbers, the same maps and the same analysis tools — and can easily share findings with elected officials and other partners. The platform helps transportation agencies, law enforcement and planners answer road safety questions. By bringing together multiple data sources, it creates a complete picture of trends, risks and opportunities across the road network. ### Programs and strategy: What are we going to do about it? A road safety program requires choices. Combining risk indicators creates a risk-based picture of the network. Crashes, speeds and roadway characteristics help you set priorities, choose countermeasures and justify investments. ### Internal analysis: What is happening here? Road safety studies often start with a specific trigger. Combining crash data, speeds and roadway characteristics quickly creates a complete picture of the situation. This supports traffic engineers, planners and enforcement officers in analyses, countermeasure evaluations and road safety studies. ### Public inquiries: Is the concern justified? Reports from residents are often the first sign of a potential road safety problem. Historical and current crash data, speed data and roadway characteristics allow these concerns to be assessed quickly and objectively. This supports transparent, fact-based communication with residents, elected officials and everyone else involved. ## VIA Software in use Every month, we help more than a thousand professionals work on data-driven road safety. - **1,000+** — Professionals using VIA Software every month - **3** — Data sources combined in one platform - **100+** — Transportation agencies and law enforcement as users ## From data to decision The Safe System Approach asks agencies to work proactively: addressing risk before a crash happens. VIA Software puts the risk indicators you manage onto one map — crashes, actual speeds and roadway characteristics. That way you decide where to act first, find the cause and justify the countermeasure. No specialist knowledge of data analysis required. After the countermeasure, a before/after report shows its effect. The insights are also used directly in council reports, grant applications and regional coordination. Agencies using the platform can communicate about road safety quickly and credibly — internally and externally. ## Based on reliable data sources - **Crashes** — Insight into where traffic crashes occur, which road users are involved and what trends are visible over time. · bron: CHP – CCRS · Daily update · California - **Speeds** — Insight into actual speeds on the road network, including average speeds, 85th percentile speeds and speed trends per road segment. · Daily update · Statewide coverage - **Road type and speed limit** — Insight into how each road is designed: speed limit, functional class, urban or rural, number of lanes, divided highways, pavement and speed humps. · Updated with each map release · Statewide coverage - **Surroundings** — Insight into what happens along the road: how dense the buildings are, how many shops and restaurants there are, where people want to cross, how hard that is and which roads lie on the walking route to a school. · Updated with each map release · Statewide coverage Together these data sources support the proactive way of working the Safe System Approach asks of every agency: prioritize, analyze, implement countermeasures and evaluate the effect.