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December 20, 2013

SafeTREC to Host Campus Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety Workshop at 2014 Annual Meeting of TRB

Workshop 169: Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Strategies for University Campuses and Peripheral Areas

Sunday, January 12, 2014
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Marriott Maryland B
Presiding, Dr. Offer Grembek, Associate Director for Research, SafeTREC

SafeTREC Distracted Driving Project Among Nine Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The project, "Analyzing the effectiveness of laws on distracted and inattentive driving to reduce traffic injuries," was one of nine research projects announced by Public Health Law Research(link is external), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(link is external), on December 19, 2013.

November 26, 2013

SafeTREC Researcher Uses Hirschman to Discuss Safe Routes to School

SafeTREC Research Associate Swati Pande, a second-year MPP student at the Goldman School of Public Policy, blogs in a recent edition of the school's online magazine, PMJ Online, about using A.O. Hirschman's concepts to understand Safe Routes to School.

"These insights provide a framework for thinking about other projects that are ambitious not simply because of scale but because of their proposed impact. [Emphasis added.]

Traffic Safety and Injury Control-Civil Engineering C265 (Cross Listed) Public Health C285

OVERVIEW AND HIGHLIGHTS

Starting with the Haddon Matrix-the "Map" of Traffic Safety, this course takes students through the many aspects of traffic safety, including issues specific to California. Topics include where to find traffic safety data and how to use it; the various components of data (numbers, exposure, risk); aspects of traffic safety analysis (human factors, naturalistic driving studies, vehicle factors, occupant protection and risk compensation). 

SafeTREC-UCTC Seminar: Benefit Cost Analysis Applied to Behavioral and Engineering Safety Countermeasures in San Francisco Slides online

Friday, December 13, noon to 1

Presentation by Ryan Greene-Roesel, Senior Transportation Planner at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority

Vew the slides and listen to the presentation remotely at: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fq4q450(link is external)

2 SafeTREC GSR Openings Spring Semester

1. GSR opening for a distracted driving study @ SafeTREC beginning Spring 2014.

Application deadline: 12/13/2013

Project background: In the past few years, driver distraction from cell phone use has become a hot issue, with many states rushing to pass laws to regulate or ban the use of electronic devices while driving. While cell phone use is known to reduce driver attention and performance, there is limited understanding of the impact that these laws have on roadway safety.

November 8, 2013

SafeTREC Website Moves to New Design & Content System

In November 2013 the SafeTREC website moved to the Drupal open-source content management system. This system allows our researchers and staff to upload materials in a more timely manner so that we can share them with our users more readily and in a format that is easier to discover.

SafeTREC-UCTC Seminar: Crash Rates and Risks: Slides and Recording

Slides and recording http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d40r5q9

Friday, Nov. 22

Presented by Dr. Kara Kockelman, University of Texas at Austin

November 1, 2013

SafeTREC-UCTC Webinar/Seminar-Oakland Complete Streets

"Transportation Policy in Oakland as It Is and as It Should Be" slides and recording online

Friday, November 1, noon to 1
Presentation by Jamie Parks, Complete Streets Program Manager, City of Oakland

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