Training and education

Cal ITE's Interdistrict Transportation Competition workshop features SafeTREC's VR simulator

November 27, 2024
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

This fall, the UC Berkeley student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Cal Transportation Team hosted the 2024 Interdistrict Transportation Competition (ITC) a conference intended to be a space for students to "engage in various transportation-related challenges often seen in the professional world, including in fields like planning, design, and data analysis."...

Course Announcement: Fall 2025 Public Health Injury Prevention and Control

August 7, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Emergency responders with an ambulance to the left, people walking and biking in a crosswalk in the middle and a helmet and bike in a crosswalk on the right

Fall 2025: Public Health Injury Prevention and Control Public Health PH285a 2 units | Course #31020 Friday, 12pm - 2pm | Berkeley Way West 1206 Instructors

Glenn Shor, PhD, MPP, gshor@berkeley....

Injury Prevention and Control

Emergency responders with an ambulance to the left, people walking and biking in a crosswalk in the middle and a helmet and bike in a crosswalk on the right Fall 2025: Public Health Injury Prevention and Control Public Health PH285a 2 units | Course #31020 Friday, 12pm - 2pm | Berkeley Way West 1206 Course Overview “Accidents” don’t “just happen.” And they contribute to significant preventable death and injury each...

2025 Follow-up survey highlights the impact of the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training

August 6, 2025
Submitted by Kris Leckie
Preliminary Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) data for 2024 indicates that traffic crashes caused 3,376 preventable deaths statewide, of which 950 were pedestrians and 148 bicyclists. Additionally, in 2024, there were 16,142 people seriously injured in traffic crashes in California, including 2,531 pedestrians and 1,255 bicyclists. These deaths are unacceptable and preventable. Ensuring that our communities are safe for walking, biking and rolling is critical for community...

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....

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, ...

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....

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...

Register now for August 26th Connecting Kern County webinar!

August 12, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Join us for the next Focus Cities webinar!

Bicyclist on Kern River Parkway Trail

DATE: Wednesday, August 26, 2020
TIME: 10am - 11am PDT

Join active transportation partners in Kern County and Bakersfield in a virtual tour of the Kern River Parkway Trail, a 30-mile protected multi-use trail that connects residents along the Kern River from the...

Register now for 7/25 Caltrans Research Workshop: Developing an Active Transportation Census Program

July 11, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
SafeTREC's Julia Griswold to present in Caltrans Research Workshop

Developing an Active Transportation Census Program"

Registration is now open for a virtual workshop hosted by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST), "Developing an Active Transportation Census Program" which will be held Monday, July 25, 2022 from 8am - 12:30pm PT....