Road User Behavior

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Pedestrian Safety

July 26, 2018

Welcome back to the SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts blog series! Each day this week we're featuring recent data on some of California's most pressing traffic safety issues. In case you missed it, yesterday's post was on bicycle safety.

In today's post, explore SafeTREC's fact sheet on pedestrian safety. Tomorrow, we'll be highlighting motorcycle safety facts.

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Pedestrian Safety

Everyone is a pedestrian, whether or not walking is one’s primary mode of...

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Aging Road Users

July 24, 2018

Welcome back to the SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts blog series! Each day this week we're featuring recent data on some of California's most pressing traffic safety issues. In case you missed it, yesterday's post was on alcohol-impaired driving.

In today's post, explore SafeTREC's fact sheet on aging road users. Tomorrow, we'll be highlighting the facts on bicycle safety.

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Aging Road Users

In 2016, a total of 6,764 people age 65 and older were...

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Alcohol-Impaired Driving

July 23, 2018

This week, we are excited to launch the SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts blog series which will feature recent data on some of California's most pressing traffic safety issues! Each day, we'll highlight the facts for a range of topics related to safety on our roads.

In today's post, explore SafeTREC's fact sheet on alcohol-impaired driving. Tomorrow, we'll be highlighting the facts on aging road users.

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Alcohol-Impaired Driving

While alcohol-impaired driving fatalities have fallen significantly in the past three decades, alcohol-impaired driving...

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Bicycle Safety

July 25, 2018

Welcome back to the SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts blog series! Each day this week we're featuring recent data on some of California's most pressing traffic safety issues. In case you missed it, yesterday's post was on aging road users.

In today's post, explore SafeTREC's fact sheet on bicycle safety. Tomorrow, we'll be highlighting pedestrian safety facts.

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Bicycle Safety

Bicycling is becoming more popular across the country, for commuting, exercise...

SafeTREC Traffic Safety Facts: Emergency Medical Services

September 20, 2018

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

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
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...

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

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...