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Impact of the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training: Program Insights from the 2025 Follow-Up Survey

Kyler Blodgett
Chen, Katherine L.
2025

The Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training Program (CPBST) is a collaborative effort between the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at the University of California Berkeley and California Walks (Cal Walks) with funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety. Its main objective is to promote pedestrian and bicycle safety by educating residents and safety advocates, empowering community partners to advocate for safety improvements in their neighborhoods, and fostering collaboration between community participants, local officials, and agency staff....

2025 California Traffic Safety Survey released: Speeding, aggressive driving continue to be concerns

July 9, 2025
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

UC Berkeley SafeTREC has released the California Traffic Safety Survey 2025. The study was led by Ewald & Wasserman Research Consultants (E&W) and conducted on behalf of the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and SafeTREC. The California Traffic Safety Survey has been conducted annually since 2010, and this year's survey was conducted...

NEW: Updated Safe System Approach Toolkit

July 8, 2025
Submitted by Kris Leckie
UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to share an update and refresh to our Safe System Approach toolkit, including new strategies, easier navigation, and more!

Covers of the English and Spanish versions of the Safe System Toolkit

Our toolkit, ...

SafeTREC's Amalia Stahl to present at the 2025 Traffic Records Forum

June 30, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC research data analyst Amalia Stahl will present "Autonomous Vehicle Safety in California: Visualizing AV Safety Data in a Simple andPromotional graphic for the 2025 Traffic Records Forum in Boston, MA Accessible Way for the General Public" at the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) 2025 Traffic Records Forum on Monday, July 7, 2025. The Traffic...

Join us for an upcoming Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training in Yuba City and Groveland

June 17, 2025
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

Join program partners UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks for these upcoming Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) workshops in the following communities:

Community Date Flyer Yuba City Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 3:30 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. Yuba City - English Groveland Monday, June 23, 2025 | 4:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M....

SafeTREC at the 2023 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

December 12, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC researchers, faculty and graduate students were excited to participate in the upcoming Transportation Research Board (TRB) 102nd Annual Meeting, held in person this year January 8–12, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Sessions and workshops will focus on the spotlight theme for the 2023 meeting: Rejuvenation Out of Disruption: Envisioning a Transportation System for a Dynamic Future. The full 2023 program, including details on all sessions and workshops, is available now via...

Speed Management Workshops Planned in California

March 23, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

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...

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...

Register now for the 2023 Mobility Summit on November 3, 2023

October 25, 2023
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Graphic with Haas Transportation & Mobility Club in black text on a yellow background

Join SafeTREC Safety Research Lead and Acting Co-Director Julia Griswold for the panel session, "Vision Zero: Closing the Loop on Safety and Equity" on Friday, November 3, 2023 at the 2023 Mobility Summit, UC Berkeley's flagship annual mobility conference sponsored by the Haas Transportation & Mobility Club...

A Context-Sensitive Street Classification Framework for Speed Limit Setting

A Context-Sensitive Street Classification Framework for Speed Limit Setting
Research Team

Principal Investigators:

Julia Griswold, University of California, Berkeley
Robert J. Schneider, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Funding Organization

Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS)


Summary

Historically, speed limit setting (SLS) procedures in many states have relied on driver-behavior-based approaches such as...