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Upcoming Community Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety Trainings in August

August 16, 2021

Register now for one of our upcoming Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) workshops! These virtual workshops are presented throughout the state of California by UC Berkeley SafeTREC in partnership with California Walks. The CPBST program trains neighborhood residents and health, transportation and safety advocates on how to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety to make California communities safer and more pleasant to walk and bike....

SafeTREC Co-Director Jill Cooper to co-lead two new CSCRS research projects

June 1, 2021
CSCRS Selects New Round of Transportation Safety Research Projects

Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety logo

This Spring, the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) announced the selection of 12 new research projects that will explore a range of transportation safety topics and contribute to the Center's mission to create and exchange...

The Racial Equity Implications of Road Safety Enforcement in Oakland, CA

April 19, 2021
New CSCRS Road Safety Fellowship Research Posted

We are excited to share Fall 2020 Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Fellow Alejo Alvarado's final report, "The Racial Equity Implications of Road Safety Enforcement in Oakland, CA."

Executive Summary

Road safety is rarely associated with racial justice - however, the current political moment has made clear the need for a shift in our approach to racism and its...

Speed Management Workshops Planned in California

March 23, 2021

Original post authored by Leah Shahum appeared March 23, 2021 on the Vision Zero Network

Communities Embrace Safe Speeds, Key to Safe System Approach

 safe street design, safe speed limits and speed safety cameras

We are pleased to announce that three California communities have been...

SafeTREC's Offer Grembek and SangHyouk Oum to present in 2020 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Online Series

October 5, 2020

SafeTREC Co-director Offer Grembek and Applications Program Manager SangHyouk Oum will present in this year's UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, "Not Back to Normal: Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19" on October 21, 2020 in a session on Air Quality, Safety, and Well-Being Consequences of Transportation Impacts. This year's symposium will be a remote learning...

Meet the 2020-2021 CSCRS Road Safety Graduate Student Fellows!

September 17, 2020

As part of our education and professional development activities for the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS), we're excited to announce the recipients of our 2020-2021 CSCRS Road Safety Graduate Student Fellowships! This year's five awardees submitted excellent applications for a wide range of timely and important student-initiated research projects.

Congratulations to the 2020-2021 CSCRS Road Safety Fellows!


Alejo Alvarado, Department of City and Regional Planning...

Meet the 2019 CSCRS Road Safety Graduate Student Fellows!

September 22, 2019

As part of our education and professional development activities for the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS), we're excited to announce the recipients of our 2019 CSCRS Road Safety Graduate Student Fellowships for this fall semester! This year's five awardees were from three different academic departments and submitted excellent applications for a wide range of student-initiated research projects.

The Fall 2019 CSCRS Road Safety Graduate Student Fellows:


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New article in the ITE Journal: The Transportation Safety Pandemic

September 4, 2020
"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

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....