Mobility 10x Summit: Accelerating Transportation Innovation Across California
The Safe System Approach (SSA) is central to U.S. transportation safety goals to achieving zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries. At the recent Mobility 10x Summit: Accelerating Transportation Innovation Across California on February 6, 2026, SafeTREC director Julia Griswold organized a panel to present "Designing a Safe System: Creating a Transportation Network that Anticipates Human Error" and discuss how to use more proactive, upstream, and effective strategies to improve road safety for all.
The Mobility 10x Summit was the capstone event of the Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI)—a four-year research effort launched in 2021 by the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies (UC ITS)
Featured panelists:
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Moderator: Leah Shahum, Executive Director, Vision Zero Network
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Rachel Carpenter, Chief Safety Officer, California Department of Transportation
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Julia Griswold, Ph.D., Director, Safe Transportation Research & Education Center, UC Berkeley
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Daniel Hennessey, Director, Transportation and Public Works Department, City of Santa Rosa
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Federico E. Vaca, Ph.D., Professor & Executive Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine School of Medicine; Faculty Associate, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Irvine
New release: Resilient and Innovative Mobility (RIMI) 10x Research Magazine
UC ITS has also released the RIMI 10x: Accelerating Transportation Innovation in California research magazine, which provides a collection of findings, insights, and actionable research generated by the RIMI work over the last four years. Insights cover topics that include decarbonization, public transit, safety and road management, resilience in the face of disruption, and emerging mobility.
The SafeTREC research study "A context-sensitive roadway classification framework for speed limit setting in the US," led by Griswold, is featured in the "Rethinking Road Safety: How California Can Reach Zero Deaths" section. Read the full research magazine.