Road User Behavior

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Emergency Medical Services

September 20, 2018
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Welcome back to the SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts blog series! This summer, we have featured recent data on some of California's most pressing traffic safety issues. Today, we will wrap up the Series - for now! - and highlight the facts on emergency medical services.

We hope you have enjoyed exploring our traffic safety findings! Stay tuned for more posts in the series. And in case you missed any of the prior posts, check out the fact sheets on:

Alcohol-Impaired...

Street Story in Bakersfield

August 29, 2018
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

This summer, the Street Story team worked with local agencies in Bakersfield and the organization, Bike Bakersfield, to collect community feedback about street safety issues and opportunities in the area.

Demonstration of Street Story in Bakersfield

Community members had the opportunity to get hands-on experience...

2018 National DUI Summer Mobilization August 17 - September 3

August 15, 2018
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
DUI Doesn't Just Mean Booze Facts

Driving under the influence of alcohol is a serious safety issue. According to the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), one person every 50 minutes was killed in an alcohol-involved crash nationwide in 2016. In California, 1,059 people lost their lives that year due to crashes involving a drunk driver.

Drug-impaired driving is also a...

Course Announcement: Fall 2018 Injury Prevention and Control

July 17, 2018
SafeTREC

Fall 2018 Injury Prevention and Control Flyer

A behavioral modeling approach to bicycle level of service

Griswold, Julia B.
Yu, Mengqiao
Victoria Filingeri
Grembek, Offer
Joan Walker
2018

Bicycle level of service (LOS) measures are essential tools for transportation agencies to monitor and prioritize improvements to infrastructure for cyclists. While it is apparent that different types of cyclists have varying preferences for the facilities on which they ride, in current research and practice, measures are used that are either insufficiently quantitative and empirical or lack cyclist segmentation. In this study, we conducted a detailed survey on cyclist habits, preferences, and user experience, capturing responses to videos of a bicycle traveling on road segments in the San...

2017 SWITRS Data Added to Transportation Injury Mapping System

March 21, 2018
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

The Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS) has been updated with 2017 SWITRS data!

ATP Hex Map graphic

Community Hex Map generated in ATP Maps & Summary Data tool

The Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS) has been developed by SafeTREC's GIS Program team to provide quick, easy and free access to California crash data that has been geo-coded to make it easy to map out crashes via a variety of...

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month

March 7, 2018
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month

Distracted driving is deadly and dangerous. In 2015 alone, 3,477 people were killed and 391,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involvingU Drive Campaign distracted drivers. In an effort to raise awareness on the consequences of texting and driving, and how to prevent this dangerous behavior, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be launching...

Visualizing Teen Driver Safety Needs: SafeTREC researchers present at 2017 GIS Day

November 10, 2017

Teen Heat Map Presentation

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson, with staff from the California Department of Education, California Office of Traffic Safety and SafeTREC.

On November 2, 2017, SafeTREC co-director Jill Cooper and researchers SangHyouk Oum and Liwei Fu presented SafeTREC’s latest data and mapping analysis tool, the Teen Safety Heat Map at the 2017 Geographic Information Systems...

SafeTREC's CA Teen Driver Heat Map featured in CDE Driver Education Update

January 26, 2018
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

The California Young Driver Heat Map (Teen Safety Heat Map), a new geographic information system (GIS) resource developed by SafeTREC in partnership with the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) was recently highlighted in the Winter, 2017-2018 issue of the California Department of Education's CDE Driver Education Update. Teen Safety Heat Map Article

This data and mapping analysis tool was developed...

New Campaign from Traffic Safety and Law Enforcement Launches: DUI Doesn't Mean Just Booze

December 29, 2017
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Drug impaired driving is a problem on California highways. This includes drivers under the influence of prescribed medications, illicit drugs, over-the-counter medications or marijuana. And just like drunk driving, driving under the influence of drugs is illegal.

It is also dangerous and poses a threat to the driver, vehicle passengers, and other users on the road. Nearly one in four weekend...