Welcome to SafeTREC, the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center at UC Berkeley

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that the Traffic Safety Center has a new name, SafeTREC, the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center.

Our new name more accurately reflects the manner in which our mission has grown since our founding nearly 10 years ago to encompass safety and travel risk in a multi-modal transportation system; a robust and diverse research agenda across multiple disciplines; and development and enhancement of curriculum, training, and outreach on the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as for professionals and members of the community.

As you can see above we also have a new logo, a first step in a re-design of our Web site. Also, please make note of our new URL: www.safetrec.berkeley.edu. (All bookmarks and links pointing to our old URL will automatically be directed to our new one.)

Our goals continue to be the reduction of transportation system related 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 also pose significant injury risk. Motor vehicle crashes are 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 approximately $15 billion each year.

Although our name has changed, SafeTREC will continue to engage in pioneering research, education, and service in travel injury risk reduction across all travel modes. We will maintain our considerable work in transportation safety outreach and community service, and continue to work with our many local, state, and national transportation safety stakeholders and partners to find innovative and effective solutions for reducing travel injury risk.

We will further expand on how this vision is taking shape in the upcoming issue of the (newly renamed) SafeTREC newsletter. We look forward to sharing our thoughts with you. If you don't receive the newsletter already, you can subscribe here.

Contact information

Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
University of California, Berkeley
2614 Dwight Way, Mail code #7374
Berkely, CA 94720-7374
Phone: 510-642-0566
Fax: 510-643-9922
Email: safetrec@berkeley.edu

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Grants Managed by TSC for the California Office of Traffic Safety

Community Pedestrian Safety Trainings

• Santa Barbara, November 14
• Oakland, December 3 and 5

Next Generation Click It or Ticket
• 2009-2010 "Next Generation Click It or Ticket" Mini-Grants Now Online: 2009-2010 Training Presentation
• 2008-2009 "Next Generation Click It or Ticket" Seatbelt Mini-Grants
Sobriety Checkpoint Mini-Grants

• 2009-2010 Sobriety Checkpoint Mini-Grants
• 2008-2009 Sobriety Checkpoint Mini-Grants

SafeTREC Headlines

October 23 Headline pick: How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road: To boost urban bicycling, figure out what women want...In the U.S., men’s cycling trips surpass women’s by at least 2:1. This ratio stands in marked contrast to cycling in European countries, where urban biking is a way of life and draws about as many women as men—sometimes more...“If you want to know if an urban environment supports cycling, you can forget about all the detailed ‘bikeability indexes’—just measure the proportion of cyclists who are female,” says Jan Garrard, a senior lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and author of several studies on biking and gender differences... “Despite our hope that gender roles don’t exist, they still do,” says [former ITS grad student] Jennifer Dill, a transportation and planning researcher at Portland State University. Addressing women’s concerns about safety and utility “will go a long way” toward increasing the number of people on two wheels, Dill explains. (Scientific American)

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