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New article in the ITE Journal: The Transportation Safety Pandemic

September 4, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
"The good news is we already have the vaccine for the transportation safety pandemic. We just must choose to use it."

How can we apply the critical lessons we are learning from the COVID19 pandemic to change our thinking and approach to transportation safety? In the Cover of the September issue of the ITE JournalSeptember issue of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Journal, co-authors...

SafeTREC Co-Director Offer Grembek talks about Safe Systems & Speed with the Vision Zero Network

July 21, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

This month, SafeTREC Co-Director and Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Associate Director Offer Grembek was featured in "Talking with Offer Grembek, Transportation Researcher, about Safe Systems & Speed" the latest entry of the Vision Zero Network's People Behind the Progress Series. In this conversation...

Structures of Stakeholder Relationships in Making Road Safety Decisions

R1: Structures of Stakeholder Relationships in Making Road Safety Decisions
Research Team:

Principal Investigator
Seth LaJeunesse
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Co-Principal Investigator
Steve Marshall
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Co-Investigator
Jill F. Cooper
University of California, Berkeley

Funding Organization:

Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)


Summary

Traffic fatalities on U.S....

A Framework for the Protective Features of a Safe System

R24: Developing a Framework to Combine the Different Protective Features of a Safe System
Research Team

Principal Investigator
Offer Grembek
University of California, Berkeley


Funding Organization

Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)


Summary Transportation safety professionals strive to build a system on which no street user can be severally or fatality injured on. To accomplish such a safe system, it is necessary to effectively harness all the core protective opportunities...

Completing the Picture of Traffic Injuries

R4: Completing the Picture of Traffic Injuries: Understanding Data Needs and Opportunities for road Safety
Research Team

Principal Investigator
Chris Cherry
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Co-Investigators
Eric Dumbaugh
Florida Atlantic University

Louis Merlin
Florida Atlantic University

David R. Ragland
University of California, Berkeley

Laura Sandt
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Funding Organization

Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety...

Understanding Micromobility Safety Behavior

R26: Understanding Micromobility Safety Behavior and Standardizing Safety Metrics for Transportation System Integration
Research Team

Principal Investigator
Christopher Cherry
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Co-Principal Investigators
Laura Sandt
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Susan Shaheen
University of California, Berkeley


Funding Organization

Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)


Summary...

SafeTREC at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2020

January 31, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

This year SafeTREC faculty, staff and graduate students joined over 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world at the Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting from January 16-20, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Our team had the opportunity to present some of our latest transportation safety research, participate in various events, workshops and activities, and connect with alum. Enjoy our round-up of selected photos to share what we were up to at #TRBAM!

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Save the Date for Safety Sunday @TRB 2020: January 12, 2020

December 19, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Headed to the 2020 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting this year? Interested in learning more about the latest safety-related research topics?

The Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) is hosting Safety Sunday @TRB, an evening for safety conversations and networking on Sunday, January 12, 2020. Drop by and join the conversation with Offer Grembek, SafeTREC co-director/CSCRS associate director and other University...

Course Announcement: Spring 2020 Traffic Safety and Injury Control

November 27, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Page 1 of Spring 2020 C265 Flyer

Evaluating Research on Data Linkage to Assess Underreporting of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Injury in Police Crash Data

Doggett, Sarah
Ragland, David R.
Felschundneff, Grace
2018

Traffic safety decisions are based predominantly on information from police collision reports. However, a number of studies suggest that such reports tend to underrepresent bicycle and pedestrian collisions. Underreporting could lead to inaccurate evaluation of crash rates and may under- or overestimate the effects of road safety countermeasures. This review examined ten studies that used data linkage to explore potential underreporting of pedestrian and/or bicyclist injury in police collision reports. Due to variations in definitions of reporting level, periods of study, and study...