Discussion of the findings of a project she conducted with the Safe Routes to School National Partnership on evaluating Active Transportation funding and Complete Streets policies in the Bay Area.
Samuel Jackman Middle School
7925 Kentwal Drive
Sacramento, CA 95823
COFFEE & LIGHT BREAKFAST PROVIDED
SafeTREC Associate Director for Research Offer Grembek will be presenting on Pillar 1 - Safety Management at “Pedestrian Safety Across the Five Pillars of the United Nations Decade of Action," a workshop sponsored by the Global Road Safety Subcommittee, on Thursday, Jan. 16, at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
Grembek also serves as Research Coordinator for the Subcommittee.
These are part of SafeTREC's efforts on behalf of our Global Road Safety Training Program @ UC Berkeley.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Marriott Maryland B
Presiding, Dr. Offer Grembek, Associate Director for Research, SafeTREC
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.
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 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.]
