News
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. Read more on the SafeTREC Home page.
Conferences and workshops
SafeTREC at APHA: Safe Transportation Research and Education Center staff participation at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 7-11, 2009.
SafeTREC at the 7th Annual Active Living Research (ALR) Conference February 9-11, 2010, in San Diego, CA: "Safe Routes to School: communities creating policy, environmental and behavioral changes,"
Tracy McMillan, PPH Partners, Jill Cooper and David Ragland, SafeTREC, Deb Hubsmith and Robert Ping, Safe Routes to School National Partnership.
International Conference on Safety and Mobility of Vulnerable Road Users: Pedestrians, Motorcyclists, and Bicyclists, May 30-June 2, 2010, in Jerusalem. SafeTREC Development Coordinator David Ragland is serving on the Scientific Committee. The conference is sponsored by Israel's National Road Safety Authority in cooperation with the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB), and the Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI). October 31, 2009, deadline for submission of abstracts. March 31, 2010, deadline for early registration. April 30, 2010, deadline for submission of papers.
TSC headlines
November 6 Headline pick: City installs 'sharrows' as part of cycling, driving experiment: City employees from the Austin Public Works Department spent the better part of Monday installing 13, 3x2-foot symbols of a man on a bicycle into traffic lanes called sharrows. The U.S. Department of Transportation chose Austin as one of six cities across the country to try out the sharrows to see if drivers and cyclists can figure out on their own how they work. The City of Austin and UT have installed cameras in strategic areas around the sharrows to collect video to be shared with the federal government to see whether or not the sharrows are working. (KVUE-TV)
Every two weeks SafeTREC sends out a list of traffic safety-related headlines. Subscribe to SafeTREC Headlines.
Recent research
- Booster Seat Use and Death Risk among Motor Vehicle Occupants Ages 4-8: a matched cohort study
- Back-Over Injuries Among Children
- A Web-Based Tool to Query and Map Police Collision Report Data
- Predictors of Helmet Use Behaviors among San Francisco Bay Area Motorcyclists
- Training, Riding, and Motivations among San Francisco Bay Area Motorcyclists
- A Critical Review of Motorcycle Safety Countermeasure Studies and Recommendations for Future Research in the United States
Newsletter
Now Online, Volume 5, Number 3: Summer 2009
Going beyond the Numbers: an interview with SafeTREC Director Simon Washington on traffic safety myths and the importance of correcting them.
Pedestrian Safety Training Debuts at Glendale: the location for a targeted, statewide program.
Making Sure that Walking Counts in the Capitol: SafeTREC's Robert Schneider Reports Back on his Summer Eno Foundation Conference
