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Sites chosen for 2025 Complete Streets Safety Assessments program

April 21, 2025
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks are excited to share news about the communities throughout California that we will be partnering with this year as part of our 2025 Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) program!

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CPBS 4/23 webinar: What's new in the NACTO and AASHTO bike guide updates?

April 16, 2025
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo
People walking and biking in a crosswalk with "Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety" in dark teal on a white background below Join the conversation with CPBS about the latest NACTO and AASHTO bike guides

Join our consortium partners at the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS) and guest speakers on Wednesday, April 23 at...

The 2025 CPBSP: Partnering with 13 communities throughout California for safer walking, biking and rolling

March 24, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks are excited to share news about the communities throughout California that we will be partnering with this year as part of our 2025 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP)!

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CPBS 3/26 webinar: Edge lane roads - U.S. experience and future directions

March 24, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
People walking and biking in a crosswalk with "Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety" in dark teal on a white background below Join the conversation with CPBS about the safety benefits of ELRs

Join our consortium partners at the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS) and guest speakers on Wednesday, March 26 at 11am PST...

Reflections on the 2019 Safe Systems Summit: Redefining Transportation Safety

June 7, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

According to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 37,133 traffic fatalities on U.S. roadways in 2017, a 1.8-percent decrease from the 37,806 people killed in 2016. While there has been a general downward trend downward in traffic fatalities overall, this is still an alarmingly high number of deaths – and there have been troubling increases for vulnerable road users like pedestrians. A new report from the Governors Highway Safety...

Register Now for the CSCRS Safe Systems Summit, April 23-24

February 20, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
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Interested in learning more about what the Safe Systems approach is to road safety? Register now for the Safe Systems Summit: Redefining Transportation Safety, which will be held in Durham, North Carolina, from April 23-24, 2019. This event is presented by the Collaborative...

New Resource: Strengthening Partnerships Peer Exchange Series Summaries Now Available

July 12, 2022
Submitted by Katherine Chen

This spring, UC Berkeley SafeTREC, in collaboration with California Walks, rolled out a new resource for former Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training program participants. Funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), we convened residents, agency staff, and other transportation safety advocates for a three-part virtual peer exchange, Strengthening Partnerships:...

Course Announcement: Fall 2022 Public Health Injury Prevention and Control

July 6, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Photo collage showing emergency responders at a car crash, a gun with ammunition, and a crashed bicycle and bicycle helmet in a crosswalk

Download Course PDF COURSE OVERVIEW

Injury is the leading cause of death for ages 1-44, and the leading cause of years of potential life lost up to age 65,...

CSCRS Webinar on 3/22: What Can We Learn from Fatal Automated Vehicle Crashes?

March 9, 2023
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Meredith King, smiling, with event details for the 3/22 CSCRS webinar

Join University of Tennessee, Knoxville Graduate Research Assistant Meredith King for the latest session in the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Research to Practice Bytes Series on Wednesday, March 22 at 11:30am PT for...

CSCRS Webinar on 2/22/23: Peer Influence and the Perceptions of Safety

February 3, 2023
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

SafeTREC graduate student researcher Aqshems Nichols smiling in the promotional graphic for the 2/22 CSCRS Webinar

Join UC Berkeley SafeTREC Graduate Student Researcher and Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) 2022 Student of the Year Aqshems Nichols...