SafeTREC at 2021 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

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

The 2021 TRB meeting theme is Launching a New Century of Mobility and Quality of Life, and many sessions will focus on on how COVID-19 has impacted transportation and how transportation professionals and researchers are responding. The program will cover all transportation modes, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. 

SafeTREC at 2021 TRB 

Explore the sessions and meetings below featuring SafeTREC research. Visit the UC Berkeley Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) website for additional information on the 58 ITS faculty, researchers and student meetings, workshops, sessions, and posters that will be presented this year.

Key Dates and Times

Committee Meetings: January 5-8 and January 11-15
Sessions and Exhibits: January 21-22 and January 25-29


Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Poster Session: 1295 - Safety Performance and Analysis, Act 3: Evaluations, SPFs, and CMFs
10am - 11:30am PT

TRBAM-21-04188: "Impact of Injury-Based Safety Performance Functions on Network Screening"

Praveen Vayalamkuzhi, University of California, Berkeley
Aditya Medury, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (and former SafeTREC postdoctural researcher)
Lin Yang, University of California, Berkeley
Offer Grembek, University of California, Berkeley


Poster Session: 1304 - Transportation Safety Management Systems from Start to Finish
11:30am - 1pm PT

TRBAM-21-03043: "Traffic Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of How Incident-Based Traffic Safety Metrics Changed Over Time on State Highways in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles Regions"

Matthew Hui, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Kupfer, University of California, Berkeley
Offer Grembek, University of California, Berkeley