Education
traffic safety seminar
June 25: "Alameda County Pedestrian and Bicycle Counting Project" (PDF of PPT slides) Presented by Robert Schneider, TSC GSR, and Lindsay Arnold, TSC Research Associate. Download seminar flyer.
Go to seminars page.
The TSC hosts the Traffic Safety Seminar, which is open to the University community and the general public featuring both University and outside experts in traffic safety. Request to be notified when seminars occur.
View previous announcements in the news archive.
conferences and workshops
Roadway design professionals: Register by July 25 for Highway Design for Older Drivers and Pedestrians: a pilot online training course developed by the California Older Driver Task Force Transportation Safety Subcommittee. It will be given online and over the phone. It is FREE, but registration is required. Email Craig Copelan, craig.copelan@dot.ca.gov, PE, TE,. Senior Transportation Engineer,
Division of Traffic Operations, Caltrans.
Training Dates: August 5-8
Training times: August 5: 0900 to 1100 hours (via phone and computer)
August 6: self-paced online training
August 7: self-paced online training
August 8: 0900 to 1100 hours. (via phone and computer)
There
are limited spaces available with space reserved for Caltrans, Local
Agencies and Industry, for this initial training. Responses are due back to craig.copelan@dot.ca.gov prior to close of enrollment on Friday, July 25 at the
close of business. The course material that will be covered by this training is the FHWA publication entitled: Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians
Contact: Craig Copelan PE, TE,. Senior Transportation Engineer
Division of Traffic Operations
1120 N Street MS 36
Sacramento, CA 95814
v: 916.654.4682
f: 916.653.3053
January 13-17, 2008: TSC at TRB: Traffic Safety Center staff is presenting four papers and five posters at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, in Washington, D.C., the world's largest gathering of transportation professionals and academics. Download PDF of TSC Program at TRB.
Teaching
Traffic Safety Center faculty and researchers teach two graduate courses and one course open to all students, which are informed by the disciplines of public health and engineering in ways seldom available at this level of instruction and which give students a chance to interact with people from different fields.
Spring 2008:
"Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation," (PDF of course announcement) a course under the auspices of the Department of City and Regional Planning. Pedestrian and Bicycle transportation planning links issues of mobility, access, air quality, global warming, and public health.
"Planning for Traffic Safety and Injury Control" (PDF of course announcement) integrates engineering, behavioral science, and vision science into a comprehensive approach to traffic safety.
Ongoing and Previous Semesters:
"Public Health Injury Prevention and Control" explores statistical and policy analysis of public health and injury prevention.
Also, "Advances in Aging: Mobility and Transportation Safety," Spring 2001.
Graduate student research jobs
NOW HIRING SPRING 2008: Position Openings – Graduate Student Researchers - The UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center (TSC) is seeking Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) at up to 49.5% for Spring 2008 with fee remission to conduct research related to department research projects for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and CA Office of Traffic Safety.
(i) Strategic planning for preventing pedestrian and bicyclist injury (related to California’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
(ii) Develop Methods to Reduce/Prevent Vehicle Backing Accidents
(iii) Development of a Safety Management Protocol – reducing Caltrans workplace accidents
(iv) Statistical Analysis of Traffic Safety Data
(v) Motorcycle Safety
Projects have a fair degree of flexibility to accommodate applicants with a range of experience.
To apply, email resume/CV and cover letter indicating which projects you are interested in working on to: Karen Mendelow Nelson at the Traffic Safety Center, karenmn@berkeley.edu or call 510-643-9447.