Pedestrian Safety

Register now for June 25th webinar "How to Conduct a Walk Audit" with WALKSacramento & SafeTREC's Jarah Crowner

June 23, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Join the latest webinar in WALKSacramento's Safe Routes to Parks and Healthy Retail Webinar Series
How to Conduct a Walk Audit

DATE: Thursday, June 25th, 2020
TIME: 1pm - 2pm PST
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/37TltTQ

This webinar hosted by WALKSacramento will provide participants with tools needed to lead and conduct your own assessment of walking and biking...

Media Narratives of Pedestrian & Bicyclist-Involved Crashes

May 20, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to share a new research highlight by graduate student researcher Marta Polovin, "Media Narratives of Pedestrian & Bicyclist-Involved Crashes."

New research highlight focuses on how media and popular discourse factor into traffic safety perspectives and outcomes. Pedestrian & bicyclist-involved crashes have been increasing throughout the United States. Previous research has shown that media and popular discourse disproportionately blames pedestrians and cyclists for their own injuries and/or deaths, while obscuring the role of motorists in these...

Register now for Sharing Stories and Strategies: A Collective Discussion About COVID-19 Challenges

May 4, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Join Us for the Next Focus Cities Webinar!

Image of volunteers with donated food bags for KidWorks and congregation families

DATE: Tuesday, May 12, 2020
TIME: 10am - 11am PDT
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/FCMay12Webinar

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New resource: CPBST Program Workshop Follow-Up Survey Highlights

April 28, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

According to the latest traffic safety data from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), while traffic fatalities have decreased 8.3% from 3,884 in 2017 to 3,563 in 2018, the safety for those walking and biking in our communities continues to be a concern. In 2018, there were 893 pedestrian fatalities (a 5% decrease from 2017) and 155 bicyclist fatalities (an increase of 6.89% from 2017). Ensuring that our communities are safe for walking, biking and rolling is key for community health...

New Features Added to Street Story Tool

April 20, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Exciting news! Features around micromobility and infrastructure improvements have been added to UC Berkeley SafeTREC’s Street Story, an online community engagement tool that allows residents, community groups and agencies to collect information about transportation collisions, near-misses, general hazards and safe locations to travel. This information is publicly accessible in downloadable maps and tables, and can be easily recorded and shared with community partners....

Expansion Factors

Expansion Factors
Research Team:

Julia B. Griswold
Aditya Medury
Louis Huang
Robert J. Schneider
Offer Grembek

Funding Organization:

California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).


Publications and Resources:

Griswold, J. B., Medury, A., Schneider, R. J., & Grembek, O. (2018). Comparison of pedestrian count expansion methods: land use groups versus empirical clusters. Transportation research record, 2672(43), 87-97.

Medury, A., Griswold, J. B., Huang, L., & Grembek, O. (...

California SHS Pedestrian Exposure Model

California SHS Pedestrian Exposure Model
Research Team:

Julia B. Griswold
Aditya Medury
Robert J. Schneider
Dave Amos
Offer Grembek

Funding Organization:

California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).


Publications and Resources:

Griswold, J. B., Medury, A., & Schneider, R. J. (2011). Pilot models for estimating bicycle intersection volumes. Transportation research record, 2247(1), 1-7.

Griswold, J. B., Medury, A., Schneider, R. J., Amos, D., Li, A., & Grembek...

Community Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety Trainings Coming Up in March

February 28, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Register now for an upcoming Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) this month in a community near you to identify priorities to make walking and biking safer for everyone - including seniors, students, parents, and people with disabilities! These workshops train neighborhood residents and health, transportation and safety advocates on how to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety to make California communities safer and more pleasant to walk and bike. Refreshments, childcare or child friendly...

Register now for March 18th webinar on Getting to the Curb: How to Design Accessible Bike Infrastructure for Pedestrians

March 4, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Join Us for Upcoming Focus Cities Webinar!

DATE: Wednesday, March 18, 2020Cover page of new Getting to the Curb Guide
TIME: 10am - 11am PDT
REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/FocusCitiesWebinar

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Feb. 25th Street Story Workshop in Los Angeles

February 21, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Share your transportation safety stories at upcoming workshop in Los Angeles!

DATE: Tuesday, February 25, 2020Street Story Flyer with image of participants in walk assessment and learning how to use paper version of Street Story.
TIME: 8:30am - 12:30pm
LOCATION: Felicia...