Motorized Vehicle Safety

SafeTREC releases California Traffic Safety Survey 2024

July 17, 2024
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

The Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at the University of California, Berkeley 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 UC Berkeley SafeTREC.

The...

UC Berkeley SafeTREC receives $6.1 million in grant funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety

November 22, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
Logo of UC Berkeley SafeTREC California Office of Traffic Safety Logo For immediate release

UC Berkeley SafeTREC receives $6.1 million in grant funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety

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2024 series of SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts released!

November 6, 2024
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo
The 2024 SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts series features the latest trends and data on various levels of traffic safety, including pedestrian and bicyclist safety, drug and alcohol-impaired driving, and emergency medical services.

UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) is excited to announce the release of the 2024 series of Traffic Safety Fact Sheets, which feature traffic safety data and trends at the national and state level on twelve...

Connecting Public Health and Transportation - Applying Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement Principles to Traffic Safety

Crowner, Jarah
Chen, Katherine L.
2024

Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are a public health problem in the United States. In 2022, there were 42,514 people killed and another 2.38 million people injured on U.S. roadways (National Center for Statistics and Analysis [NCSA], 2024). These fatalities are a leading cause of death and kill over 116 people each day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS), in 2022, for people ages 15-24, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death in the United States (CDC, 2022). Across all age...

National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) releases 2023 Shared Micromobility in the U.S. and Canada report

August 14, 2024
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) released the 2023 Shared Micromobility in the U.S. and Canada report in July 2024, where monthly and yearly trends in the usage of e-bikes, pedal bikes, and e-scooters were collected and analyzed.

The report finds that shared micromobility options are a popular and growing form of public transportation, especially in major cities, and...

Injury Prevention and Control

Emergency responders with an ambulance to the left, people walking and biking in a crosswalk in the middle and a helmet and bike in a crosswalk on the right Fall 2024: Public Health Injury Prevention and Control Public Health PH285a 2 units | Course #30506 Friday, 12pm - 2pm | Berkeley Way West 1206 Course Overview

Injury is the leading cause of death for ages 1-44 and the leading cause of years of potential life lost up to...

Course Announcement: Fall 2024 Public Health Injury Prevention and Control

August 5, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Emergency responders with an ambulance to the left, people walking and biking in a crosswalk in the middle and a helmet and bike in a crosswalk on the right

Fall 2024: Public Health Injury Prevention and Control Public Health PH285a 2 units | Course #30506 Friday, 12pm - 2pm | Berkeley Way West 1206 Instructors

Glenn Shor, PhD, MPP, gshor@berkeley....

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...

Course Announcement: Spring 2022 Traffic Safety and Injury Control

January 6, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

People walking in crosswalk with traffic passing with course title, time and date overlaid

Course Description:

Injuries from traffic crashes are a major cause of death and disability in the United States and around the world. In the United States injury from traffic crashes is the leading cause of death and disability for people ages 1 to 34, and a major cause for all groups....

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...