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SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL/PEDESTRIAN SAFETY WORKSHOP THURSDAY, APRIL 10 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Samuel Jackman Middle School
7925 Kentwal Drive
Sacramento, CA 95823

COFFEE & LIGHT BREAKFAST PROVIDED

Departure time choice modeling: accounting for flexibility and latent effects

Presentation by Mikkel Thorhauge, PhD student, Technical University of Denmark

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.

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.

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.

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