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May 12, 2016

SafeTREC—Leadership Transition
David R. Ragland

                                                                                                                                                                 (Left to Right: David Ragland, Jill Cooper, Offer Grembek)

MODESTO COMMUNITY PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY WORKSHOP: MAY 19


SAFETREC BICYCLE SURVEY COMPLETED

SafeTREC conducted an online and in-person survey about the factors that make roads more or less bicycle friendly. Thank you to all survey participants!
The winners of the drawing for the Amazon gift cards were notified last week.

CO-DIRECTOR JILL COOPER RECEIVES ITS SERVICE TO COMMUNITY AWARD


             (Left to right: David Ragland, Jill Cooper, Cal Walks Wendy Alfsen )

April 20, 2016

EL MONTE COMMUNITY PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY WORKSHOP: APRIL 28

SAFETREC CO-DIRECTOR OFFER GREMBEK APPOINTMENT TO TRB COMMITTEE

SAFETREC AT LIFESAVERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE: APRIL 3-5, 2016

                                                                                   Co-Director Jill Cooper (right) presides over a workshop w/  Elin Davis.

TRIBAL ROAD SAFETY PROJECT

March 10, 2016

Four UCBSafeTREC graduate students presented podium and poster sessions at the UCConnect 2016 Student Conference on February 11- 13, 2016 at UC Riverside.


VISITING SCHOLAR 2016-2017: YINGYING MA

Please join SafeTREC in welcoming Yingying Ma - our newest Visiting Scholar! 

CA STRATEGIC HIGHWAY SAFETY PLAN SUMMITS: 2/23- 4/8/16



California is kicking off the implementation phase of its Strategic Highway Safety Plan via six regional safety summits. Three summits were held in Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego in late February. There are three upcoming April sessions:

January 21, 2016

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD (TRB) 95TH ANNUAL MEETING

JANUARY 10-14, 2016


                                                                                                                                                                             Co-Director Offer Grembek presides at TRB workshop 

Two SafeTREC Transportation Research Record (TRR) papers recently got published. View them at TRR from the links below.

January 10, 2016

November 30, 2015

Nine separate projects address crucial pedestrian, bicycle and traffic safety concerns

(Berkeley, Calif., November 23, 2015) – The Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (UCB SafeTREC) announced today nine grants for 2015-16 from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to support crucial traffic safety programs.

The Community Pedestrian Safety Training (CPST) program is a partnership between UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks. Since 2009, a total of 36 CPST workshops have been implemented in 35 communities.

SafeTREC Seminar

The commitment of the IDB on Road Safety

Néstor H. Roa
Chief of Transport Division, Inter-American Development Bank

Friday, November 13 , 2015
12 - 1 pm, PST

2614 Dwight Way (at Bowditch)
2nd Floor Conference Room
Berkeley, CA 94720


SafeTREC has two more Visiting Scholars this fall. Please join us in welcoming Victoria Kendrick and Ugo Vollmer! 

October 29, 2015