Training and education

Traffic Safety and Injury Control

Busy urban intersection with people walking, rolling in the crosswalk

Spring 2024: Traffic Safety and Injury Control Civil and Environmental Engineering C265 | Cross-Listed with Public Health C285 3 Units | Class #30620 | Tu - Th | 3:30-5PM Dwinelle 233 Course Overview

Injuries from traffic crashes are a major cause of death and disability in the United States and around the world. In the United States injury from...

Apply now for a 2024 Complete Streets Safety Assessment

December 18, 2023
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Participants at the Santa Cruz Complete Streets Safety Assessment conducting a walk audit

Participants on a walk audit during the Complete Streets Safety Assessment in Santa Cruz, CA

UC Berkeley SafeTREC’s 2024 Complete Streets Safety Assessments (CSSA) Program has launched! Our team will partner with California cities and public school and university campuses with a population of at least 2500, counties, and...

Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS)

CPBS Logo of a dark teal blue bicycle spoke on the left, Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety text in the middle, and an icon of a person walking on the right, all on a white background

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to be a part of the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS), a Tier-1 University Transportation Center (UTC) supported by the...

Register now for 11/12 webinar: "Exploring Pandemic-Era Data Trends and Policy Implications"

November 9, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
UC Berkeley SafeTREC's Offer Grembek to present in upcoming virtual safety series about community-based traffic safety data & approaches during a pandemic

Graphic of the Traffic Safety Series flyer

The Southern California Association of Governments and its Go...

August 6th Webinar: Broadening the Toolbox for Kinetic Energy Management

August 2, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
SafeTREC Co-Director Offer Grembek to present in CSCRS Safe Systems Summer Learning Series

The Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) recently launched a new Safe Systems Summer Learning Series that will be held...

Course Announcement: Spring 2021 Traffic Safety and Injury Control

December 7, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Flyer for the Spring 2021 Traffic Safety and Injury Control course

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

March 9, 2021
Submitted by Lisa Peterson
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...

Programs

CENTER FOR PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY (CPBS)
UC Berkeley SafeTREC is consortium member of the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS), a Tier-1 University Transportation Center (UTC) supported by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and led by the University of New Mexico (UNM).

CPBS is one of the twenty Tier One UTCs announced in March...

Register now for the Tenderloin Community's Collaborative Approach for Safe Streets webinar

June 3, 2020
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON
Join us for the next Focus Cities webinar!

Participants at Tenderloin Community Celebration on Taylor Street

DATE: Thursday, June 18, 2020
TIME: 10am - 11am PDT

In one-quarter square mile, the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco is home to the city’s largest concentration of children, seniors, immigrants, and people of color. It is also...