ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- (Business Wire)
In June 2014, the Maryland State Police (MSP) Automotive Safety
Enforcement Division launched the statewide Maryland Safety Inspection
System (MSIS). This multi-agency system has successfully streamlined the
vehicle inspection process by enabling the 1,600 vehicle inspection
stations statewide to electronically record and report results to the
MSP.
The MSIS system is actively used by the vast majority, nearly 72
percent, of Maryland inspection stations which have electronically filed
over 500,000 inspections. That’s half of a million inspections filed in
less than two years, a huge win in terms of efficiency for the state of
Maryland and inspection stations.
Mechanics rave about the electronic system’s ability to help them
conduct vehicle safety inspections more efficiently. Willie Olsen,
Vehicle Inspector for Redd’s Automotive, Inc., an independent automotive
shop in Annapolis stated, “The system is easy to use, equipped with fail
safes, and allows me to complete an inspection with a lot less
paperwork.”
The system was designed with a tablet-first approach, providing
mechanics with the option to complete the inspection real-time in the
bay on any touchscreen device. User controls are in place to prevent
mistakes, and the inspectors simply touch P (for Pass), F (for Fail), or
R (for repaired) for each vehicle component.
“The Maryland Safety Inspection System has been a huge improvement in
time and cost savings for the MSP. This system has sped the process and
accuracy of monitoring the state’s registered inspection mechanics and
inspection stations, eliminating the need for paper files, and has
performed with little to no technical difficulties,” said Maryland State
Police Captain James Russell.
Captain Russell went on to say, “The MSIS is an improvement for the
citizens of Maryland, too. The inspection information is transmitted
electronically to the MVA, eliminating the need for the citizen to
present inspection paperwork when registering a vehicle. The system also
features a public lookup site to find if a vehicle has a current
inspection on file and to find a state inspection station.”
Most used vehicles are required by Maryland law to undergo a safety
inspection prior to its sale or transfer. The Maryland Motor Vehicle
Administration (MVA) receives the inspection data electronically through
MSIS, reducing the amount of foot traffic in MVA branch offices, wait
times, and increasing overall customer satisfaction.
Each year, over 600,000 vehicle safety inspections are conducted in
Maryland. MSP uses the electronic Maryland Safety Inspection System to
monitor all vehicle inspections throughout the state, to better protect
citizens from fraudulent or improper inspections.
The MSIS system was developed and is hosted and maintained at no cost to
the MSP or the MVA. By leveraging a self-funded master contract with the
Department of Information Technology (DoIT), the agencies have realized
a cost avoidance of over $850,000. Over $190,000 is saved annually by
eliminating inspection certificates and reports used by the inspection
stations.
Troopers and Vehicle Safety Inspectors alike experience time savings by
eliminating the need to deliver paper inspection certificates to the
stations and process the manual paper-based station inspection. Agency
business processes are improved by eliminating paper intensive record
keeping and administrative overhead, and allow for more efficient use of
man hours to regulate and enforce overall inspection program compliance.
About NIC Maryland
NIC
Maryland builds, operates, maintains, and markets the official
website of the state of Maryland, www.maryland.gov
and its digital government services. NIC Maryland is a collaborative
public/private partnership managed by the Department of Information
Technology (DoIT) and NIC Maryland. NIC Maryland helps Maryland state
and local government entities web-enable their services and operates
without tax funds through a self-funded digital government services
contract. NIC Maryland has developed more than 65 eGov products and
services for the state of Maryland since the contract was awarded in
August 2011.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of
innovative digital government solutions and secure payment processing,
which help make government more accessible to everyone through
technology. The family of NIC companies provides digital government
solutions for more than 4,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the
United States. Forbes has named NIC as one of the “100 Best Small
Companies in America” six times and the company has been included four
times on the Barron’s 400 Index. Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.
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Contacts:
NIC Maryland
Janet Grard, 443-924-7405
jgrard@egov.com
Source: NIC Maryland
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