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"Advances in Aging: Mobility and Transportation Safety," a semester-long course offered by the UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center and the Academic Geriatric Resource Program, 2001.

As one its earliest projects, the TSC helped organize a course that brought together experts from a variety of disciplines. More about the course.

Extending Safe Driving Years Workshop, 2003.

The UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center convened the Extending Safe Driving Years Workshop on June 12, 2003, to explore the implications of the demographic fact that more older drivers are on the road than ever before, and that today's and tomorrow's older Americans will rely on the car more than any previous older generation.

How Health Problems Affect Driver Status among Older Adults.

This study used baseline data gathered as part of the Study of Physical Performance and Age-Related Changes in Sonomans (SPPARCS). The relative risks of medical conditions' effects on driving status offer a perspective on individuals' mobility choices, and the attributable risks offer a perspective on the most important causes of driving cessation in the elderly population.

TSC Resources

"The Association Between Health Problems and Driver Status Among Older Adults" Kara E. MacLeod, Judy A. Geyer, William A. Satariano, David R. Ragland, Jill F. Cooper, Tammy R. Wilder, Elena Lankina/ Traffic Safety Center Research Report. 2005.

Older Adults and Safe Mobility, a special issue of the Traffic Safety Center Newsletter, August 2002: includes the following articles. Safe Mobility as the Nation Ages," "Why Older Adults Don't Walk," Scrambling for Safety for Chinatown's Older Pdestrians," "Aging Behind the Wheel," "California Task Force," "Local Solutions."