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Click It or Ticket 2008 Mini-Grants
Sobriety
Checkpoint 2008 Mini-Grants
Safety Headlines
May 7 Headline Pick: Drivers
Use Social Site To Avoid Speed Traps: Officials Are Happy Drivers
Are Slowing Down—KIRO TV
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IIHS STATUS REPORT: VOL. 43, NO. 3 The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released the
latest issue of its Status Report magazine. The issue explores vehicle
crash avoidance features.
ROAD COURTESY AND ROAD SAFETY The Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the University of Adelaide,
Australia, has released a report that explores road courtesy and
campaigns to promote road courtesy. For the purposes of this report
courtes, refers both to behaviors (the presence of some and the absence
of others) and to the attitudes and habits of mind that accompany
behaviors.
BICYCLES AND MOTORCYCLES TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, No. 2031 includes 9 papers that explore bicycle level of
service, bicycling demand, bicyclist intersection safety index, bicycle
safety, motorcycle training effectiveness, motorcycle ownership and
commuter usage, and mobility patterns of motorcycle and moped riders.
LARGE TRUCK CRASH FACTS: 2006 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released its annual
report that explores statistics on fatal, injury, and property damage
crashes that involved large trucks in 2006. For comparison purposes,
the report includes selected crash statistics on passenger vehicles. In
addition, for the first time, the report includes ten tables that show
bus crash statistics.
ANALYSIS OF BICYCLE-RELATED AND PEDESTRIAN-RELATED ROADWAY CRASHES The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that
explores potential trends, based on patterns in crash types and causes,
associated with crashes involving bicyclists and pedestrians.
A RESIDENT'S GUIDE FOR CREATING SAFE AND WALKABLE COMMUNITIES The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that is
designed to help residents, parents, community association members, and
others get involved in making their communities safer for pedestrians.
The report includes facts, ideas, and resources to help residents learn
about traffic problems that affect pedestrians and help find ways to
address these problems and promote pedestrian safety.
Free Pedestrian Safety Assessments for California Cities ITS Berkeley's Tech Transfer Program provides free Pedestrian Safety Assessments (PSA) to California cities upon request, thanks to funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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THE TRAFFIC SAFETY CENTER's goals are to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries
through multi-disciplinary collaboration with partner organizations in education, research and outreach.
Motor vehicle collisions are a leading cause of death in the United States
for all age groups and the number one cause of death for people between the
ages of one and 34. In California alone, motor vehicle crashes kill nearly
4,000 people, injure 280,000, and cost $15 billion each year. See, also the TSC Mission Statement and Strategic Plan.
Traffic safety Seminar
Wednesday, May 28, Noon: "A comprehensive approach to geocoding collisions from the California Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS)," presented by
John Bigham, MPH, GSR at the UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center. Seminar runs from noon to 1 p.m. Discussion from 1 to 1:30 pm. Held at the American Baptist Seminary of the West, Crouch Library, 2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley. Adjacent to the Traffic Safety Center offices. Email terrimj@berkeley.edu for more information.
TSC Graduate Student Researcher Wins Local ITE Prize
Kitae Jang Wins ITE "Sustainable Living in the Suburbs" Student Paper Grand Prize
Kitae Jang shaking hands with UC Berkeley Planning Chair Robert Cervero (left), who awarded Jang the prize on behalf of the ITE San Francisco Bay Area Section.
