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Now Online: Volume 4, Number 3: Spring 2008
The Safety Run-Around that Happens at Rail Crossings: At-grade rail crossings are regularly the scenes of gambles by drivers that they are simply not physically capable of winning: they are wagering that they can correctly measure the speed of an approaching train and get across the tracks before it arrives.
What Did Your Walk to School Today Do to (or for) You? With children traveling to school on foot less and less and by car more and more, there is tremendous interest in encouraging a return to walking, biking and busing for the school "commute."
Making the Way to School Safer: Safety Improvements under Safe Routes to School Appear to Pay Off Evaluations, including a recent one completed by Traffic Safety Center researchers, show that, overall, biking and walking trips rose, and safety was improved.
How San Francisco’s Public Health Department Found Its Voice in Land Use and Transportation Planning Efforts A report on the presentation by Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, Director of Occupational and Environmental Health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.
The Graduate Student Researchers at the TSC Seventeen students from a variety of disciplines are working on projects including better access to transit, industrial safety, pavement safety, pedestrian and bicycle safety, collision clusters and HOV lanes.
Volume 4, Number 3: Winter 2007-08
A Tale of Two Cities—and an Island Resort—in Asia: Hazards Grow for Pedestrians and Bicyclists Three grad students provide insights into traffic safety in China and Thailand in presentations at the TSC Seminar.
Walking into the Tsunami: the Need to Balance Sustainability, Multimodalism, and Traffic Safety TSC Director David Ragland proposes a seven-point agenda to "tack to the wall" for making walking and biking safer while promoting non-motorized travel for the health of the planet—and its people.
A Traffic Safety Experiment in Salinas Valley: The TSC is taking its research to the streets of Greenfield, population 16,000, in Salinas Valley to test the impact specific education and outreach measures can have on promoting safety.
Plus, news items and useful new outside links.
Volume 4, Number 2: Fall 2007
Backgrounder on International Road Safety: By 2020, road traffic injuries are projected to be the third most important contributor to the global burden of disease, the World Health Organization reports. Only heart disease and major depression will take more lives.
Report on Safety Sessions from the 11th World Conference on Transport Research in Berkeley:Some 1,000 researchers from around the world came together for the triennial event, held for the first time in North America, from June 23-28, 2007. The Traffic Safety Center teamed with colleagues at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania to organize the safety track, which featured nearly 40 speakers. Read the report on selected WCTR Traffic Safety Tracks, complete with links to papers (when available).
New Research Snapshots from the Traffic Safety Center.
Volume 4, Number 1: Spring-Summer 2007
TSC Web site has new look
International Traffic Safety in Hanoi: Why more than the three "E's" —Engineering, Education, and Enforcement—are required
The Traffic Safety Center Welcomes Visitors from NHTSA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
TSC Law Enforcement Liaisons: From Writing Tickets to Writing Grants
Volume 3, Number 4: Winter 2006-07
Timing Is Everything: The TSC looks at pedestrian crossing signals on a busy Bay Area thoroughfare.
Walking and Bicycling to School: Making it Safe Safe Routes to School study delivered to California State Legislature.
Crosswalk Confusion: Pedestrians and drivers need more information. Or do they?
Closing the Gate on Rail Crossing Crashes: An evaluation of where best to intervene
Volume 3, Number 3: Fall 2006
Putting a Face on Traffic Safety Numbers: TSC Addresses Caltrans Human Factors Workshop
Why—and How—Pedestrians and Bicyclists CountThis Year's Future: Eleven graduate student researchers sign on to a range of TSC projects
Licensing Older and Younger Drivers
Volume 3, Number 2: Summer 2006
Pedestrian Safety and Roadway Design
Putting Safety into Road Planning—a New Diagnostic Approach
When Crosswalks Work—and When They Don't: Charles Zegeer on marked vs. unmarked crossings
Walking the Walk: An Interview with Pedestrian Safety Expert Charles Zeeger
TSC at TRB 2006: Links to papers and presentations by our researchers at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006
Traffic Safety Center Salutes New Graduates: We congratulate six students affiliated with TSC projects who received graduate degrees in 2006
Volume 3, Number 1: Winter 05-06
The Fifth Anniversary Issue
Five Years of Traffic Safety Research
Youthquake to Jolt the Traffic Safety World
San Pablo SMART Corridor Designs for Multiple Mode Users
Toward "Healthier" (Safer) Urban Pedestrianism
A Step in the Right Direction: Oakland Scramble
Latino Traffic Safety
Walking with Cars: An Emeryville Pedestrian Safety Study
Zeroing in on Drinking-Driving
A Look at the Haddon Matrix
A Statistical Snapshot of the State
Volume 2, Number 4: Summer 2005
Safety and the SUV
History of the SUV as a tragedy of the commons
Light trucks dodge the spotlight
A new, holistic look at old data
How Ford's SUV public service campaign is playing out
The evolution of the SUV: a pictorial timeline
Volume 2, Number 3: Winter 2004-2005
Traffic Safety in a Global Context
Traffic safety emerges onto the global stage
Measuring the global burden of disability
Worldwide traffic risk patterns pose challenge to public health efforts
Improving traffic safety in Australia
It takes a huge effort to build a sidewalk
Volume 2, Number 2: Summer 2004
Rural Road Safety The Complexity of Rural Roads
Vasco Road: A Rural Road in Transition
Barriers to Rural Emergency Care
The Huron Story: Traffic Safety Challenges in an Agricultural Setting
Rural Traffic Safety Programs
Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2004
Safety, Physical Activity, and the Built Environment
Making Safety a Must
Can Pedestrian-friendly Planning Encourage Us to Walk?
Safety in Numbers
Safer Streets for Older Adults--and Everyone Else
Healthier Kids, Safer Neighborhoods
Interview with Elizabeth Macdonald
Tribute to Anne Seeley
Web Resources
Volume 1, Number 4: Fall 2003
Disparities in Traffic Safety
Groups that traffic safety has left behind
Challenges in collecting data
Lessons from the Meharry Medical College Study and the Blue Ribbon Panel
Improvements in emergency services in Thailand
Extending Safe Driving Years workshop
Seminar series stimulates cross-departmental thinking
Transportation community loses pioneering researcher
Volume 1, Number 3: Summer 2003
Driving Under the Influence
History of DUI
Programs that have worked
Implications of California's demographic trends
Increasing DUI awareness
Current programs
Survey of 19-25 year olds
Volume 1, Number 2: December 2002
Occupant Protection
Getting People to Buckle Up
Standardized Survey Methodology
Child Passenger Safety
Booster Seats
Interview with David Manning of NHTSA
Interview with Teresa Becher of OTS
Volume 1, Number 1: August 2002
Older Adults and Safe Mobility
Transportation Policy
Older Pedestrians
Oakland's Scramble System
Epidemiology of the Older Driver
Statewide Task Force
Local Transportation Alternative Programs
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