Bicycle safety

Join us for an upcoming Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training in Tulare and Kingsburg!

May 16, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Join program partners UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks for these upcoming Comunidades Activas y Seguras (CAyS) and Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) workshops in the following communities:

Community Date Flyer CAyS Workshop: Tulare Friday, May 17, 2024 | 8:30am - 11:30am English |...

SafeTREC's Griswold awarded new contract for "Developing a Safe System Approach to Setting Speed Limits: Phase II"

May 6, 2024
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Research project to inform future speed-limit-setting in CaliforniaPrinciples and elements of the Safe System approach to road safety

In April, 2024 SafeTREC Director Julia Griswold was awarded a new contract, "...

Our CPBSP Team is Coming to a Community Near You!

April 24, 2024
Submitted by Kris Leckie
This year, the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) will partner with eight communities throughout California to discuss, plan, and implement active transportation safety improvements. We’re excited to announce the start of our site visits this week!

This week our program staff will be on the ground in Kingsburg, San Bernardino, and Tulare to conduct site visits with each community’s Planning...

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...

The 2024 CSSA: Partnering with 16 communities to advance Complete Streets safety improvements

March 29, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

This year as part of SafeTREC's Complete Streets Safety Assessment Program (CSSA) we are excited to share that we will be partnering with 16 communities throughout California to identify and implement traffic safety solutions that lead to improved safety for all users.

Participants at the Santa Cruz Complete Streets Safety Assessment conducting a walk audit

The 2024 CSSA Program

SafeTREC's...

The 2024 CPBSP: Partnering with 13 communities throughout California for safer walking, biking & rolling

March 25, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks are excited to share news about the communities throughout California that we will be partnering with this year as part of our 2024 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP)!

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Recorded Webinar: Engaging Communities During COVID - What We Learned

July 13, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Collage of photos showing SAAS community outreach events like a walk audit, active streets event, and tabling with community members

Engaging communities during COVID: What we learned

This webinar "Engaging communities during COVID: What we learned" was held Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 as part of the Focus Cities program....

"Funding pedestrian and bicycle safety" peer exchange on January 18

January 4, 2023
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

My community is energized about pedestrian and bicycle safety! Where do we go from here? A 2023 Peer Exchange Series"

Once again, we are proud to host our three-part Peer Exchange program! The series supports communities as they work to implement pedestrian and bicycle transportation safety programming and improvements. All meetings will take place Wednesdays at 11am PT. We invite...

CSCRS Safe Systems Summer 2021 Learning Series

July 15, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

The Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) has launched a new Safe Systems Summer Learning Series! This series of free virtual events was held on Fridays in July and August 2021, beginning with the first session, Redefining Safety, on Friday, July 16.

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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 ...