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2024 California Traffic Safety Survey Summary

Lisa Peterson
Karen Nguyen Vo
2024

The UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) has released the California Traffic Safety Survey 2024. The study was led by Ewald & Wasserman Research Consultants (E&W) and conducted on behalf of the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and SafeTREC.

The California Traffic Safety Survey has been conducted annually since 2010 to gain a better understanding of a range of traffic safety behaviors, and to help inform traffic safety programs and public education campaigns. This year’s survey was conducted with an online panel of California...

Join the SafeTREC Team: position open for a Research Data Analyst

August 26, 2024
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Work with Us!

The Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) is a program of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Institute of Transportation Studies. The Center’s objective is to prevent injuries from traffic crashes through projects encompassing research, training, public service, and policy. We currently have one position open. Please see the details below and upcoming review date.

Research Data Analyst

The Research Data Analyst responsibilities include:

Conduct transportation safety related data analysis. Utilize general...

SafeTREC’s SangHyouk Oum and Amalia Stahl to present at ATSIP 2024 Traffic Records Forum

August 7, 2024
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

UC Berkeley SafeTREC associate director SangHyouk Oum and research data analyst Amalia Stahl will present at the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) 2024 Traffic Records Forum on August 13, 2024 in San Diego, California. The Traffic Records Forum gathers transportation professionals, including data analysts and engineers, to discuss the best practices and newest collection methods of highway safety data and traffic records.

SafeTREC researchers will be speaking in the...

California Traffic Safety Survey 2024

Ewald, Katrin
Wasserman, Lisa
2024

Overview of 2024 Study

The 2024 California Traffic Safety Public Opinion Study was conducted by Ewald & Wasserman Research (E&W) on behalf of the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center of UC Berkeley (SafeTREC), using an online self-administered survey. Similar to previous years of the study, the survey panelists were provided through Marketing Services Group, a commercial sample and panel vendor.

To ensure a comparable sample disposition to previous years of data collection, six quota...

June 11, 2024: SafeTREC's Griswold and Oum to present at OTS Traffic Safety Law Enforcement Forum

June 5, 2024
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Upcoming forum to highlight the importance of traffic safety throughout CaliforniaCalifornia Office of Traffic Safety Logo

On June 11, 2024 SafeTREC's Director Julia Griswold and Associate Director SangHyouk Oum will present on key traffic safety topics at the ...

Explore our new California Traffic Safety Dashboard

April 2, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to announce the launch of our new California Traffic Safety Dashboard, a series of tools designed to allow users to visualize crash data and traffic safety activities in conjunction with demographics in California.

California Traffic Safety Dashboard - do your own analysis or visualize traffic safety at a glance

The following Tools are currently available:

TOOL SNAPSHOT

Traffic Safety and Equity Overview
The Traffic Safety...

Street Story: How can we create inclusive community engagement technologies?

November 1, 2018
Submitted by Kate Beck

During the California-wide PedsCount! Summit 2018, we launched Street Story, SafeTREC’s new community engagement platform that allows residents, community groups and agencies to collect information about transportation collisions, near-misses, general hazards and safe locations to travel. In essence, the platform invites users to enter ...

March 15: Using Crowdsourced Data Strategies in Community Engagement

February 28, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Community members at a walking and biking safety training filling out a Street Story survey about their transportation safety experiences, with the title of the Peer Exchange session on 3 stacked color boxes in orange, yellow and blue

UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) and California Walks are...

SafeTREC Co-Directors David Ragland & Offer Grembek present at ATSIP 2021 Virtual Traffic Records Forum

September 14, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
SafeTREC's Ragland and Grembek present at 2021 ATSIP Traffic Records Forum ATSIP Traffic Record Forum 2021

This year the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) held their annual Traffic Records Forum virtually from August 16-20, 2021 to convene data analysts, state and local law enforcement officials, engineers, motor vehicle officials, emergency...

“Office Hour” with the Street Story Team

July 27, 2022
Submitted by Jarah Crowner
Do you have questions about how to enter Street Story data, analyze data from your community, create a custom boundary - or other questions about using the tool? How about using the paper version or simply entering reports?

Screenshot of the StreetStory website

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