Pedestrian Safety

SafeTREC at the 2024 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

December 8, 2023

UC Berkeley SafeTREC researchers and graduate students are excited to participate in the upcoming Transportation Research Board (TRB) 103rd Annual Meeting, held in person this year January 7-11, 2024 in Washington, D.C. The program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. The full 2024 program, including details on all...

Course Announcement: Spring 2024 Traffic Safety and Injury Control

December 19, 2023

Busy urban intersection with people walking, rolling in the crosswalk

Spring 2024: Traffic Safety and Injury Control Civil and Environmental Engineering C265 | Cross-Listed with Public Health C285 3 Units | Class #30620 | Tu - Th | 3:30-5PM Dwinelle 233 Course Overview

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...

Apply now for a 2024 Complete Streets Safety Assessment

December 18, 2023

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

Participants on a walk audit during the Complete Streets Safety Assessment in Santa Cruz, CA

UC Berkeley SafeTREC’s 2024 Complete Streets Safety Assessments (CSSA) Program has launched! Our team will partner with California cities and public school and university campuses with a population of at least 2500, counties, and...

Applications open soon for the 2024 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program!

December 5, 2023

Graphic showing participants on a walk audit with a light blue filter and CBPSP program launch announcement in white text

The 2024 CPBSP

UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks are excited to announce the upcoming January launch of our 2024 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP)!

The...

New Podcast Episode: The Future of Transportation Safety

November 28, 2023

People walking, biking across an intersection on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles on a sunny day

For many of us, we might think of transportation as a means to safely get from one place to another, but it's much more than that. Transportation is also having access to the basic needs and activities of our lives, and it's a critical factor that influences people's health and the health of our communities...

Register now for 11/12 webinar: "Exploring Pandemic-Era Data Trends and Policy Implications"

November 9, 2020
UC Berkeley SafeTREC's Offer Grembek to present in upcoming virtual safety series about community-based traffic safety data & approaches during a pandemic

Graphic of the Traffic Safety Series flyer

The Southern California Association of Governments and its Go...

August 6th Webinar: Broadening the Toolbox for Kinetic Energy Management

August 2, 2021
SafeTREC Co-Director Offer Grembek to present 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...

3/25 Webinar: From Practice to Progress - Street Story in the Field

March 9, 2021
Join us for the first Focus Cities webinar in 2021!

Participants from Street Story workshop on walk assessment in Fresno, CA

DATE: Thursday, March 25, 2021
TIME: 10am - 11am PT

Join UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks for our first Focus Cities webinar of 2021! We will be talking with presenters from the ...