Tools

Informational Web Pages and Resources 

CA ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY INFORMATION PAGES (CATSIP)

The California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages is a website intended to provide a single, comprehensive, California-centric online destination for authoritative, evidence-based information on practices, methods, and resources to support efforts to improve the safety, efficiency, and attractiveness of pedestrian, bicycle, and other types of non-motor-vehicle travel.

Available resources include:

  • Crash data and tools

  • Laws, plans and policies

  • Funding opportunities

  • Safety Stories

  • Research, guides, and resources on Micro Mobility, Vision Zero, the Safe System Approach, Equitable Transportation, and more.

Safe Speeds

CALIFORNIA SAFE SPEEDS TOOLKIT

This California Safe Speeds Toolkit follows the work of the Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force (ZTFTF) and is intended to help local jurisdictions across California set safer speed limits that accommodate all road users using Safe System principles. This toolkit consolidates key research on Safe Speeds from the ZTFTF Research Synthesis by the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies, provides details on speed limit setting flexibilities under the existing California framework, highlights select speed limit setting case studies from cities across California, and points local jurisdictions toward next steps in pursuing safe speed limit setting. 

Traffic Safety Data

TRANSPORTATION INJURY MAPPING SYSTEM (TIMS)

The Transportation Information Management System (TIMS) is a tool developed by UC Berkeley SafeTREC that makes California crash data easily accessible to the general public by geocoding crashes within the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) database and providing a variety of easy-to-use point-and-click tools for analyzing crashes.

The following tools are currently available on TIMS:

Statewide Summary

  • SWITRS Summary

  • Weekly Crash Trends

  • DUI Crash Summary 

General SWITRS Queries & Map Tools

  • SWITRS Query & Map

  • SWITRS GIS Map

  • Crash Diagram

Program or Area Specific Tools

  • California Safety PM Target Setting

  • Crash Diagram

  • Safe Routes to School Map Viewer

  • ATP Maps & Summary Data

  • Motorcycle Crash Map

Please register for a free account to access the tools and resources on TIMS.


CALIFORNIA TRAFFIC SAFETY DASHBOARD 

The California Traffic Safety dashboard is a series of tools designed by UC Berkeley SafeTREC to allow users to visualize crash data and traffic safety activities in conjunction with demographics in California. The Traffic Safety and Equity Overview Tool consists of a series of dashboards that allow users to access both detailed crash and demographic information on the region of choice while also ranking different geographic regions by various fatality and serious injury metrics. The Safety Heat Map allows for a more detailed analysis by creating interactive heat maps utilizing crash and demographic data as well as traffic safety improvement activities in California. Finally, the OTS Grants Clearinghouse serves as a platform where California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) officials and grantees can access historical grant data.

The following Tools are currently available: 

  • Traffic Safety and Equity Overview

  • Safety Heat Map

  • OTS Grants Clearinghouse

Community Engagement 

STREET STORY: A PLATFORM FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Street Story is a community engagement tool that allows residents, community groups and agencies to collect information about transportation crashes, near-misses, general hazards and safe locations to travel. The platform and the information collected is free to use and publicly accessible. Community organizations and agencies can use this information as part of qualitative information gathering approaches for local needs assessments, transportation safety planning efforts, safety programs and project proposals.The tool was created by a team of city planners, public health professionals, engineers, social welfare experts and computer scientists at UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC).