Street Story

Street Story: A Platform for Community Engagement

Street Story

Street Story is a community engagement platform provided by the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) in English and Spanish that allows residents, community groups, and agencies to collect information about transportation crashes, near misses, general hazards, and safe locations to travel. The tool is free to use, anonymous, and publicly accessible. To promote access to the tool,...

Connecting Public Health and Transportation - Applying Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement Principles to Traffic Safety

Crowner, Jarah
Chen, Katherine L.
2024

Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are a public health problem in the United States. In 2022, there were 42,514 people killed and another 2.38 million people injured on U.S. roadways (National Center for Statistics and Analysis [NCSA], 2024). These fatalities are a leading cause of death and kill over 116 people each day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS), in 2022, for people ages 15-24, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death in the United States (CDC, 2022). Across all age...

Register now for 7/11 webinar: Engaging Decision-Makers using Street Story

June 25, 2024
Engaging Decision-Makers using Street Story

Thursday, July 11, 2024 | 1pm - 2pm PT | Register nowSafeTREC's Areli Balderrama conducts a walk assessment in Boyle Heights with a group of 12 participants on a neighborhood street...

Register now for 4/17 Street Story webinar: “I have the data, now what?” Pt. 2

March 26, 2024
I have the data, now what? Part 2Eight people conducting a walk assessment on a neighborhood sidewalk during a Street Story training in Boyle Heights Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 1pm - 2pm PT | Register now

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Street Story: How can we create inclusive community engagement technologies?

November 1, 2018

During the California-wide PedsCount! Summit 2018, we launched Street Story, SafeTREC’s new community engagement platform that allows residents, community groups and agencies to collect information about transportation collisions, near-misses, general hazards and safe locations to travel. In essence, the platform invites users to enter ...

May 17: “I have the data, now what?” A closer look at data collection, collaboration and planning between community and governmental agencies

April 27, 2022
Maps showing reports in Street Story for crashes, near misses, hazards and safe spaces in Humboldt County "I have the data, now what?" A closer look at data collection, collaboration, and planning between community and governmental agencies

DATE: Tuesday, May 17, 2022
TIME:
11am - 12pm PT

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March 15: Using Crowdsourced Data Strategies in Community Engagement

February 28, 2022

Community members at a walking and biking safety training filling out a Street Story survey about their transportation safety experiences, with the title of the Peer Exchange session on 3 stacked color boxes in orange, yellow and blue

UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) and California Walks are...

“Office Hour” with the Street Story Team

July 27, 2022
Do you have questions about how to enter Street Story data, analyze data from your community, create a custom boundary - or other questions about using the tool? How about using the paper version or simply entering reports?

Screenshot of the StreetStory website

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3/25 Webinar: From Practice to Progress - Street Story in the Field

March 9, 2021
Join us for the first Focus Cities webinar in 2021!

Participants from Street Story workshop on walk assessment in Fresno, CA

DATE: Thursday, March 25, 2021
TIME: 10am - 11am PT

Join UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks for our first Focus Cities webinar of 2021! We will be talking with presenters from the ...

Focus Regions Program

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) selected California as a Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Focus State in 2015 due to its high rate of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities. In 2021, the FHWA updated their Focused Approach to Safety. California continues to be identified as a Focus State for Pedestrians and Bicyclists because of disproportionately high pedestrian and bicycle...