Eight separate projects address crucial traffic safety issues for pedestrians, bicycle and motor vehicle drivers
(Berkeley, Calif., January 5, 2017) – The Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (UCB SafeTREC) announced today eight grants for 2016-17 from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to support crucial traffic safety programs.
Traffic Safety & Injury Control course will be offered this Spring semester. The course will examine principles of engineering and behavioral science relevant to preventing traffic collisions and subsequent injury. Given the rapid emergence of technology—self-driving vehicles, crash avoidance systems, vehicle-infrastructure integration—the course will have a two-week module on the implications for safety (for all modes) of these emerging technologies.
We just released a quarterly research brief featuring newly published research related to bicycle and pedestrian issues.
Please share and distribute to your traffic safety partners.
(Berkeley, CA – Dec. 13, 2016) SafeTREC is excited to be a part of a new U.S. Department of Transportation-funded National University Transportation Center, to be led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’sHighway Safety Research Center.
The seventh wave of the California Traffic Safety Study conducted in 2016 is a statewide representative sample of California vehicle drivers who were surveyed on topics of traffic safety and the awareness of media outreach campaigns. The analyses are based on 1,271 survey responses collected in July and August of 2016. Download the full survey
SafeTREC staff and graduate students will attend the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 96th Annual Meeting on January 8–12, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
Co-director David Ragland presented SafeTREC's Tribal Road Safety Data Project at the University of Minnesota's (UMN) Roadway Safety Institute on November 10, 2016. His presentation focused on the development of the Tribal Road Safety Tool in conjunction with the National Indian Justice Center.
Co-director David Ragland will present SafeTREC's Tribal Road Safety Data Project at the University of Minnesota's Roadway Safety Institute on November 10, 2016.
For participants interested in the topic, please watch the live webcast.
Seminar Information
Thursday, November 10, 2016
3 – 4 p.m. Central
Room 1130
Offer Grembek co-authored a newly published paper titled, "After-Effects in Traffic Crash Victims in Brazil" in the Traffic Injury Prevention journal.
Workshop Information
Time: Saturday, September 24; 9:30AM- 2:30PM
Place: Chinatown Service Center
767 N. Hill Street, Suite 400A Los Angeles, CA 90012
Our Community Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Training (CPBST) program with California Walks is a four-hour, community-based workshop designed to help local advocates and community members develop pedestrian safety action plans that leverage best practices, promote walkability and ensure community engagement.
SafeTREC is conducting a pilot survey about traffic safety culture in California and is seeking online participants. This survey covers a limited range of traffic safety topics to refine questions that may be included in a broader study in the future. The results of the larger study will help to understand
perspectives and attitudes about traffic safety in order to inform safety strategies.
SafeTREC staffers and students regularly make academic contributions to traffic safety research and continue to contribute after they graduate from UCB and head on to academic and professional positions.
Transportation Research Part A, Vol.91: Policy and Practice issue
PH 285A, Injury Prevention and Control course will be offered this Fall semester. The importance of injury, intentional and unintentional, as the leading cause of death before age 45, and the leading cause of years of potential life lost, will be illustrated. Following an overview, the course will be organized around specific current injury-related issues. Students are encouraged to prepare an injury-related paper for publication.
