Pedestrian Safety

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...

Strengthening Partnerships: A 2022 Peer Exchange Series for former CPBST sites

February 11, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) and California Walks are excited to announce a new 3-part training series, the “Strengthening Partnerships: A Peer Exchange Series for former CPBST sites” which will start on March 15, 2022. The biweekly virtual series is designed to support communities as they work to implement the recommendations developed during their Community and Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety (CPBST)...

July 25 - Implementing Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) Improvements: A Peer Exchange

July 13, 2023
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
Implementing Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) Improvements: A Peer Exchange

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 | 10:00am - 11:00am PT

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to announce a new online peer exchange session as part of the Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) program on how local agencies are successfully implementing complete streets safety improvements to make walking, biking and rolling safer in their communities. This peer exchange is designed to support...

Building Programs in Spanish: The Importance of Culturally Relevant Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Programming

July 18, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
Building Programs in Spanish: The Importance of Culturally Relevant Pedestrian & Bicyclist Safety Programming

The recorded presentation of Building Programs in Spanish: The Importance of Culturally Relevant Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Programming from July 28, 2022 may be found at the UC Berkeley SafeTREC YouTube channel.


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6/30 webinar: Applying the Safe System Approach to Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety

June 14, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
Applying the Safe System Approach to Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety

DATE: Thursday, June 30, 2022Graphic representing the adapted Safe System approach with a dark blue circle and six segments with overlaid white text and icons to show the six adapted principles and elements
TIME: 10am - 11am PDT

Join UC Berkeley SafeTREC and...

April 12: Active Transportation Planning in Unincorporated Communities

April 5, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

View of an intersection in a residential neighborhood in the unincorporated community of Empire during a walk/bike assessment

Join UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) and California Walks for the next session on Tuesday, April 12th in the new 3-part training series, the “Strengthening Partnerships: A Peer Exchange Series for...

9/22/21 Webinar - Safety on Our Streets: Traffic Safety in San José

August 31, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
Focus Cities Webinar: Safety on Our Streets: Traffic Safety in San José

World Day of Remembrance memorial event in San Jose, CA to honor loved ones lost to traffic violence.

The recording of the September 21, 2021 Focus City Webinar: Safety on Our Streets can be found at the ...

July 30, 2021 Webinar: Redesigning the System to Support Safety

July 26, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
SafeTREC's Katherine Chen presented in CSCRS Safe Systems Summer Learning Series

The Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) recently launched a new Safe Systems Summer Learning Series that will be held on Fridays...

Creating safer streets for walking & biking: apply for a CPBST in your community!

February 11, 2021

Today we're excited to share a guest blog post by Katherine Chen, Senior Policy & Program Analyst at SafeTREC and the lead for the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) program. The CPBST program works with local neighborhood residents and health, transportation and safety advocates to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety through engaging local stakeholders, providing information and data, supporting community empowerment, and strengthening collaboration with local officials and...

Experimental Research of Relationship between Pedestrian Stopping Distance and Walking Speed to Avoid Pedestrian Crowd Stampede Accident

Zhang, Yuanyuan
Chen, Xiaohong
Li, Na
2010

Stampede accidents usually take place in crowded areas in transfer stations, sports stadiums, shopping malls, religious places and other similar areas. One of the causes of stampedes is that people do not have enough distance to stop themselves when there are emergencies. Like vehicles, pedestrians also need stopping distance when they want to stop from a certain speed, especially in a sudden situation without any previous notice. People who could not stop in time crush into or step upon other people, and may trigger a stampede accident. Analysis of worldwide stampede accidents reveals the...