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March 23, 2021

Original post authored by Leah Shahum appeared March 23, 2021 on the Vision Zero Network

Communities Embrace Safe Speeds, Key to Safe System Approach

 safe street design, safe speed limits and speed safety cameras

March 22, 2021

Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in the transportation and safety research realm. In today's post, meet Afsaneh Yavari, Research and Development Engineer.

March 9, 2021

Join us for the first Focus Cities webinar in 2021!

Participants from Street Story workshop on walk assessment in Fresno, CA

DATE: Thursday, March 25, 2021
TIME: 10am - 11am PT

February 11, 2021

Today we're excited to share a guest blog post by Katherine Chen, Senior Policy & Program Analyst at SafeTREC and the lead for the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) program.

February 9, 2021

COVID-19 Effects on the Mobility of Vulnerable Populations

Thursday, February 25, 2021 | 12pm - 1:15pm PT

February 8, 2021

The over-60 population in California is projected to grow faster than any other age group, and will comprise up to one-quarter of the state's population by 2030.

January 26, 2021

SafeTREC is offering free Complete Streets Safety Assessments (CSSAs) to California communities, including cities, counties, and school campuses with a population of over 2,500 people. CSSAs are comprehensive transportation safety assessments that focus on pedestrian and bicycle safety. They help local agencies identify and implement traffic safety solutions that lead to improved safety for all users of California’s roadways.

January 20, 2021

New paper highlights how socio-economic characteristics of a specific area influence traffic safety

Former SafeTREC graduate student researcher and current postdoctoral researcher at the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL) Amir M. Amiri has co-authored a new publication, "Evaluating the impact of socio-economic contributing factors of cities in California on their traffic safety condition" with researchers Koorosh Naderi, Jill F. Cooper, and Navid Nadimi in the Journal of Transport & Health.

January 12, 2021

Original post appeared on the Vision Zero Network.

Is your California community eager to explore and implement strategies to effectively manage speed for safety?

Logos of three sponsors of trainings, Vision Zero Network, ITE and SafeTREC

December 23, 2020

SafeTREC researchers, faculty and graduate students are excited to participate in the upcoming Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting, which will be conducted as a virtual event over a series of dates throughout January, 2021.  

Logo for 2021 TRB Annual Meeting

Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in the transportation and safety research realm. In today's post, meet graduate student researcher Qianhua Luo.

December 7, 2020

December 3, 2020

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

UCB SafeTREC Receives $4.28 Million in Grants from the California Office of Traffic Safety

November 25, 2020

Exciting news! The online version of Street Story is now available in English and Spanish. Also, a paper version of Street Story is available in English and View of report in the Spanish version of the Street Story toolSpanish. To access the Spanish version, click here.

November 16, 2020

New Tribal Crash Reporting Toolkit

In October 2020, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a new Tribal Crash Reporting Toolkit that has been designed to help Tribal governments collect, manage, and analyze crash data in their jurisdictions. To learn more about each of the seven tools included in the toolkit, view the toolkit manual.

November 12, 2020

New paper highlights how process mapping is used to identify high collision concentration locations (HCCLs) across California

SafeTREC postdoctoral researcher Praveen Vayalamkuzhi has co-authored a newly published paper, "Process Mapping of Stakeholders in Transportation Safety Management" with researchers Camille Salem, Offer Grembek, Aditya Medury, and John L. Ensch in the Journal of Management in Engineering.

November 9, 2020

UC Berkeley SafeTREC's Offer Grembek to present in upcoming virtual safety series about community-based traffic safety data & approaches during a pandemic

Graphic of the Traffic Safety Series flyer

October 29, 2020

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to announce that two new video tutorials are now available as part of the Tribal Road Safety Program! Click on the links below to learn how to use two new tools for advancing road safety on tribal lands: Tribal Street Story and Tribal TIMS.

October 16, 2020

Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in the transportation and safety research realm. In today's post, meet Jarah Crowner, Policy & Program Analyst.

October 5, 2020

SafeTREC Co-director Offer Grembek and Applications Program Manager SangHyouk Oum will present in this year's UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, "Not Back to Normal: Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19" on October 21, 2020 in a session on Air Quality, Safety, and Well-Being Consequences of Transportation Impacts.