Bicycle safety

CPBS 4/23 webinar: What's new in the NACTO and AASHTO bike guide updates?

April 16, 2025
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo
People walking and biking in a crosswalk with "Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety" in dark teal on a white background below Join the conversation with CPBS about the latest NACTO and AASHTO bike guides

Join our consortium partners at the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS) and guest speakers on Wednesday, April 23 at...

4/29 Peer Exchange - Leveraging the CSSA for funding opportunities: A case study from the City of Calabasas

April 10, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to announce our 2025 online peer exchange series as part of the Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) program. This two part webinar series aims to support agencies and communities working to advance safer walking and biking throughout California. Registration is now open for the first session on April 29th, which will provide the opportunity to gain a greater...

Complete Streets Safety Assessments

Complete Streets Safety Assessment Program

SafeTREC offers free technical assistance to communities across California to make safe spaces for people to walk and bike. This year, the Complete Streets Safety Assessment program offers two unique tracks to better support communities’ safety needs.

Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA)

Safe Speed Limits Assessment (Safe Speed Limits)

These programs are free and available to communities across California. Specific eligibility varies by...

The 2025 CPBSP: Partnering with 13 communities throughout California for safer walking, biking and rolling

March 24, 2025
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 2025 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP)!

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Creating an inclusive bicycle level of service: Virtual bicycle simulator study

March 26, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
New report explores the benefits and limitations of using a VR environment to assess individuals’ bike infrastructure preferences

A new report by UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) co-authored by Julia Griswold, Edna Aguilar and Md. Mintu Miah, "Creating an inclusive bicycle level of service: Virtual bicycle simulator study" aims to assess how virtual reality (VR) technology can be used to gather user feedback on a variety of bicycling...

Creating an Inclusive Bicycle Level of Service: Virtual Bicycle Simulator Study

Griswold, Julia B.
Aguilar, Edna
Wang, Han
Miah, MD Mintu
2025

Bicycle level of service (BLOS) is an essential performance measure for transportation agencies to monitor and prioritize improvements to infrastructure, but existing measures do not capture the nuance of facility differences on the state highway system. However, with the advancements in virtual reality (VR) technology, a VR bicycle simulator is an ideal tool to safely gather user feedback on a variety of bicycling environments and conditions. This research explored the benefits and limitations of using a V...

CPBS 3/26 webinar: Edge lane roads - U.S. experience and future directions

March 24, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
People walking and biking in a crosswalk with "Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety" in dark teal on a white background below Join the conversation with CPBS about the safety benefits of ELRs

Join our consortium partners at the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS) and guest speakers on Wednesday, March 26 at 11am PST...

Text Version of CPBSP Interactive Map

Below you will find a web accessible, text version of our interactive Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) Map, which highlights reports created from 2023 onwards from the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training Program (CPBST) and the...

Reflections on the 2019 Safe Systems Summit: Redefining Transportation Safety

June 7, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

According to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 37,133 traffic fatalities on U.S. roadways in 2017, a 1.8-percent decrease from the 37,806 people killed in 2016. While there has been a general downward trend downward in traffic fatalities overall, this is still an alarmingly high number of deaths – and there have been troubling increases for vulnerable road users like pedestrians. A new report from the Governors Highway Safety...

Register now for Street Story Webinar on August 7th

July 19, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Registration Now Open for a Free Webinar with UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks:

Participants at CPBST Workshop using Street Story

Street Story at Work: How Communities are Using the Tool
Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 3pm - 4pm PT...