Baseline information serves as a foundation for proposers to measure pre-grant traffic enforcement activity. Baseline information must be provided by the proposers to identify local traffic enforcement related activity and includes the total number of traffic and patrol hours by the subgrantee agency and the total number of vehicle stops in the past 12 months. The information must exclude any activity generated with STEP grant dollars. Once the baseline is established, these figures will be used to compare subsequent year's local and grant traffic enforcement activity.

Additionally, proposers must enter the three-year-average KA (injury crash) crash data for their jurisdiction as it appears on the RFP Budget Document. The baseline numbers are critical in establishing the causes and numbers of fatalities, injuries, crashes and property damage in a community and are used to measure the effectiveness of grant-related enforcement efforts in reducing crashes.