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April 30, 2015

This infographic provides a snapshot of road safety around the world. (Created by SafeTREC Researchers)

The Third United Nations Global Road Safety Week will be held May 4-10, 2015. The week will highlight the importance of road safety and work to implement road safety measures to reduce traffic fatalities. Safer roads for all will mean safer roads for children. Join their global campaign, #SaveKidsLives!

April 24, 2015

SafeTREC Seminar 

Preventive Interventions Aimed at Reducing Alcohol Related Traffic Injuries and Deaths

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Azalea Hall
1620 Pickett Road, 
McKinleyville, CA 95519

BREAKFAST PROVIDED

April 3, 2015

SafeTREC Seminar

Creating Space for Bikeways:  Road Diets and Parking Removal

John Brazil
City of San Jose

Friday, April  10, 2015
12 - 1 pm, PST

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

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the first week of April is California Teen Safe Driving Week.

March 5, 2015

SafeTREC Seminar

Chinese Road Safety and Driver Behavior Research 

Junhua Wang
Associate Professor, School of Transportation Engineering
Tongji University
Shanghai, China

Friday, March 6, 2015
12 - 1 pm, PST

Communications Coordinator, SafeTREC (7455U)

Job ID
19341

Location
Off Campus-Berkeley

Full/Part Time
Full-Time

Department
SPH Administration

February 17, 2015

SafeTREC Seminar

Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plans in Post-War Suburban Communities

Jennifer Donlon Wyant
Senior Associate
Alta Planning + Design

Friday, February 20, 2015
12 - 1 pm, PST

SafeTREC Seminar

Applying UrbanSim to Transportation Issues in Cities

Fletcher Foti
Synthicity

The Transportation Research Board's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 797: Guidebook on Pedestrian and Bicycle Volume Data Collection has just been published. The book describes methods and technologies for counting pedestrians and bicyclists, offers guidance on developing a non-motorized count program, gives suggestions on selecting appropriate counting methods and technologies, and provides examples of how organizations have used non-motorized count data to better fulfill their missions.
 

January 21, 2015

SafeTREC / ITS Seminar

Safety in Numbers for Walkers and Bicyclists. Why?

Peter L. Jacobsen
Public Health Consultant

Friday, January 30, 2015
4:00 pm -5:00 pm
(Cookies and Coffee at 3:30 pm)
290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
UC Berkeley

ITS Seminar

Clean Transportation As the Path to a Clean Grid by Eliminating EV Range Anxiety and Enabling Vehicle-Grid Integration

Samveg Saxena
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

TRB-Hosted Webinar

Tools for Pedestrian and Bicycle Volume Data Collection

January 29, 2015

1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET 

December 19, 2014

The UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies will be hosting a reception at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 2015 in Washington, DC.

If you will be attending TRB, please join us:

Monday, January 12, 2015
5:30 to 7:30 pm

Course Announcement 


Traffic Safety and Injury Control - Spring 2015

(Civli and Environmental Engineering C265, cross-listed with Public Health C285) 

DOWNLOAD SAFETREC AT TRB 2015 FLYER