News About TSC

KCBS-TV: "Berkeley Professor Hired To Study California Carpool Lanes: David Ragland is a professor at U.C. Berkeley who was commissioned by the agency to conduct the $300,000 study, specifically on the safety of High Occupancy Vehicle—or HOV—lanes." (November 2006)

TSC Research Presented at Annual Meeting of American Public Health Association: "Bias from the application of unconditional regression models to data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System," Presented by Tom Rice, TSC Research Epidemiologist, and Craig Anderson, Center for Trauma, University of California, Irvine. (November 2006) More>>

TSC's Jill Cooper on CBS Channel 5 Vasco Road Report: speaking about value of new enforcement efforts. CBS Channel 5 (October 2006).

Grant To Fund Increased Enforcement On Vasco Road: The Brentwood and Livermore police departments received a two-year grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to step up traffic enforcement on Vasco Road, a 15-mile stretch of highway that Contra Costa County Supervisor Gayle Uilkema referred to as "Blood Alley" last week because of its reputation for fatal accidents (October 2006). More>>

TSC Featured in New Publication on Traffic Safety for Spanish Speakers Guidelines published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

New Publication from the TSC "Teens and Driving in California"

Pedestrian crossing in Tokyo: the start of the walk phase, and the middle.

Putting a Face on Traffic Safety Numbers:TSC Addresses Caltrans Human Factors Workshop:

• Why—and How—Pedestrians and Bicyclists Count TSC Director David Ragland Explains Key Findings about California's Unique Pedestrian Safety Issues
• Licensing Older and Younger Drivers Risks and Benefits Diverge for California's Two Most Vulnerable Driver Groups

This Year's Future Eleven graduate student researchers sign on to a range of TSC projects

New Outside Links Added to TSC Web site

December 2006:

Traffic Safety Facts 2005 Annual Report: Early Edition: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis has released the early edition of its Traffic Safety Facts 2005. (From the Transportation Research Board).

November 2006:

Evaluating Driver Education Programs: Comprehensive Guidelines The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released a report that provides background for planning and conducting evaluation of beginner driver education, and for integrating evaluations into program development and policy. The report explores a range of evaluations and is written primarily for program evaluators, researchers, and other technical audiences. Actual tools, such as surveys, focus group guides, and log books that can be used or adapted for evaluating beginner driver education programs, are included in the publication.

Statistical Methods and Crash Prediction Modeling: TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1950 contains 10 papers that cover topic such as using decomposition in exposure, accident risk, and fatality risk; negative binomial regression techniques; estimating crash modification factors of signal installation; models of injury count by severity; effects of sample size on goodness-of-fit statistic and confidence intervals of crash prediction models; accident prediction models; using macrolevel collision prediction models in road safety planning; and calibration of safety prediction models for planning transportation networks. The TRR: Journal also includes the draft prototype chapter for rural two-lane highways of the "Highway Safety Manual."

In Step With Safety: FHWA offers new guidance and technical assistance to help States develop action plans to protect pedestrians. (Features work by TSC Visiting Lecturer Charles Zegeer, of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, a nonprofit program of the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center.

Turning Young Drivers Into Survivors: A new FHWA outreach campaign educates teens on work zone safety.

October 2006: Pedestrian Decision-Making of Adolescents Aged 11-15 Years, A U.K. Department for Transport report that examines the role of skills, attitudes, and perceived behavioral controls.

Survivability of side impact crashes, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Status Report magazine: New issue.