Road User Behavior

Cal ITE's Interdistrict Transportation Competition workshop features SafeTREC's VR simulator

November 27, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

This fall, the UC Berkeley student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Cal Transportation Team hosted the 2024 Interdistrict Transportation Competition (ITC) a conference intended to be a space for students to "engage in various transportation-related challenges often seen in the professional world, including in fields like planning, design, and data analysis."...

2025 Complete Streets Safety Assessments: Apply for free technical assistance!

November 27, 2024
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

The UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) is excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for our 2025 Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) programs, in partnership with California Walks! This year, we will partner with communities across California to discuss, plan...

2025 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program: Apply for a free pedestrian and bicycle safety training in your community!

November 27, 2024
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

The UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) is excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for our 2025 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP), in partnership with California Walks! This year, we will partner with communities across California...

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...

2024 California Traffic Safety Survey Summary

Lisa Peterson
Karen Nguyen Vo
2024

The UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) 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 SafeTREC.

The California Traffic Safety Survey has been conducted annually since 2010 to gain a better understanding of a range of traffic safety behaviors, and to help inform traffic safety programs and public education campaigns. This year’s survey was conducted with an online panel of California...

UC Berkeley SafeTREC contributes bicycle simulator to Self-eSTEM summer camp

September 30, 2024
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

In August 2024, the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) demonstrated our bicycle simulator — originally created to gather data on cyclists' perceptions of safety in different road environments — to Self-eSTEM to complement their summer camp program for girls who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color (BIPOC) and are interested in science,...

SafeTREC staff publish research brief on the link between public health and active transportation planning

September 30, 2024
Submitted by Kris Leckie
While the overall number of motor vehicle fatalities and serious injuries have generally decreased in recent years, vulnerable road user fatalities and serious injuries continue to rise (National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2024). Public health professionals, their methods, and their models are essential to incorporate within active transportation best practices because it allows decision makers to capture the ideas, desires, and needs of communities.

A new research brief by UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) staff...

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...