Grants Managed by TSC for the California Office of Traffic Safety
2009 Sobriety Checkpoint Mini-Grants
2008 Click It or Ticket Mini-Grants
2008 Sobriety
Checkpoint Mini-Grants
Safety Headlines
July 11 Headline Pick: Note to drivers: iPhone has hands-free drawbacks Apple's updated iPhone, which hits stores Friday, may be one of the hottest, most technically advanced handsets. But when it comes to helping users go hands-free in the car, it comes up short.—SiliconValley.com
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Links to Useful outside Resources
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 500,
Vol. 20, Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway
Safety Plan: A Guide for Reducing Head-On Crashes on Freeways: ... The predominant geometric feature associated with such crashes is the median, including its width as well as the presence of a barrier, and proximity to interchanges.
CROSS MEDIAN CRASHES: IDENTIFICATION AND COUNTERMEASURES A statistical
technique was developed for using crash records to estimate the frequency and rate
of Cross Median Crashes on each set of highway sections.
California Transit Links
Quick links to California transit agencies and systems,From the American Public Transportation Association.
Source: Librarians' Internet Index (LII)
Hands-Free L.A.: Your Guide
Series of news stories and commentary related to the California hands-free cellular phone laws that went into effect July 1, 2008. From the Los Angeles Times.
Source: Librarians' Internet Index (LII)
IDENTIFYING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BOOSTER SEAT LAWS The report explores possible factors that relate to the use of
child booster seats.
EFFECTIVENESS OF OREGON'S TEEN LICENSING PROGRAM A report from the Oregon Department of Transportation on the effectiveness of teen licensing laws that went into effect
in 2000.
ROAD CASUALTIES IN GREAT BRITAIN MAIN RESULTS: 2007
New York Cycle Club List of Bicycling Safety sites
Go to the TSC Useful Outside
Links page.
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.
Seminars and Conferences
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. Go toTSC Education page for details about pilot course on Highway Design for Older Drivers and Pedestrians.
TSC Director David Ragland to present "Overview of Rural Traffic Safety" at the 2008 Summer Institute of the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, "The policies and political challenges to reducing rural traffic fatalities," presented by the University of Minnesota in cooperation with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
July 28-29, 2008.
GSR Jobs Summer/Fall 2008
The UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center (TSC) is seeking Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) for full- or part-time employment during summer 2008 with possible continued employment through fall 2008 to assist with ongoing and developmental research projects, in areas including the following: GIS mapping of California collision data; motorcycle ridership survey; effectiveness and design of ladder-style crosswalks; and pedestrian safety in SMART corridors.
Two TSC Graduate Student Researchers Win Eisenhower Awards
Rebecca Sanders and Robert Schneider among nine students from Berkeley to win prestigious fellowships.
