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May 7, 2014

MAY 9

NOON-1 P.M.

SAFETREC 2ND FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM, 2614 DWIGHT WAY

PRESENTATION BY MOHSEN A. JAFARI, PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

The third edition of the biannual PedsCount! conference features two sessions involving SafeTREC staff and researchers. PedsCount! 2014 takes place May 14-16 in Sacramento. The full program can be found here May 7 is the final day to register. 

SafeTREC sessions are listed below:

THURSDAY, MAY 15

Capturing Trips on Foot: An Introduction to the Benefits & Challenges of Pedestrian Counts

April 30, 2014

MAY 9

NOON-1 P.M.

SAFETREC 2ND FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM, 2614 DWIGHT WAY

PRESENTATION BY MOHSEN A. JAFARI, PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

FRIDAY, MAY 2

SLIDES AND RECORDING

PRESENTATION BY WEI-SHIUEN NG, PHD STUDENT, UC BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING

April 11, 2014

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY EDUCATION WORKSHOP, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

CENTRAL LIBRARY 222 E. HARVARD STREET, GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA 91205 

APRIL 25, 2014

SEE THE SLIDES AND HEAR THE TALK(LINK IS EXTERNAL)

PRESENTATION BY MATT BRAUGHTON AND ASHLEIGH GRIFFIN, KITTELSON & ASSOCIATES

SLIDES AND RECORDING NOW ONLINE(LINK IS EXTERNAL)

APRIL 18, 2014

NOON-1 P.M.

SAFETREC 2ND FLOOR CONFERENCE CENTER, 2614 DWIGHT WAY

PRESENTATION BY BAYLISS J. CAMP, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

April 3, 2014

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

January 31, 2014

Departure time choice modeling: accounting for flexibility and latent effects

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

FEBRUARY 7

NOON-1 P.M.

SAFETREC 2ND FLOOR CONFERENCE CENTER, 2614 DWIGHT WAY

Bikeways in Berkeley

Presentation by Eric Anderson, City of Berkeley

FEBRUARY 21 

NOON-1 P.M.

SAFETREC 2ND FLOOR CONFERENCE CENTER, 2614 DWIGHT WAY

See materials in eScholarship archive.

January 10, 2014

SafeTREC students, faculty, and researchers are participating in the following events at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 12-16 in Washington, D.C. 

Sunday, January 12, 2014 

1:30 P.M. - 4:30 P.M., MARRIOTT, MARYLAND B

Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Strategies for University Campuses and Peripheral Areas Workshop
Offer Grembek presiding

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.

December 20, 2013

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

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

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)

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.

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 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.]