UC Berkeley SafeTREC

Congratulations to former SafeTREC graduate student researcher/ @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social MS Transportation Engineering/MCP student Jon Atkins for this well deserved award!! 🌟 #Transportation #Excellence

Caltrans' Rachel Carpenter, ITS Irvine's Federico Vaca, SafeTREC's Julia Griswold, Vision Zero Network's Leah Shahum, and City of Santa Rosa's Daniel Hennessey in a group photo from the "Designing for Safety" breakout session at the Mobility 10X Summit.

Get the latest #SafeTRECNews! #AutonomousVehicle safety factsheet, research highlights on #DesigningForSafety, #TransportationSafety events and more! mailchi.mp/berkeley/saf...

Intelligent Speed Assistance can support Vision Zero goals in multiple ways – from municipal fleets and pilot programs to teen drivers and other use cases. Learn where it makes the most sense and how communities are testing it in practice. Register here: visionzeronetwork.org/upcoming-web...

Postdoctoral researcher Atul Subedi faces the camera smiling, wearing a dark blue jacket.

Get to the know the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social SafeTREC team in our #Spotlight interview w/postdoctoral researcher Atul Subedi! His research interests span #TransportationSafety, #TravelBehavior and #Technology adoption: safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/spotlig...

RIMI 10x Research Magazine: Accelerating Transportation Innovation in California - UC Institute of Transportation Studies Authors: Susan Shaheen, UC ITS RIMI Director, Professor-In-Residence, UC Berkeley; Laura Podolsky, Executive Director, UC Institute of Transportation

🌟 Just Released: RIMI 10x Research Magazine 🌟
I’m pleased to share our UC ITS magazine, which highlights work on decarbonization, transit resilience, safety, infrastructure disruptions & emerging mobility, offering evidence-based insights to inform policy and practice. See: ucits.org/news/rimi-10...

Developing a Guide for Estimating Benefits of Closing Gaps in Active Transportation Networks 2026 An active transportation network includes trails, sidewalks, bike lanes, and roads designed for walking, bicycling, or rolling. They are not only importan...

New NASEM @trb.org resource: Developing a Guide for Estimating Benefits of Closing Gaps in Active Transportation Networks 2026: www.nationalacademies.org/publications... #ActiveTransportation #RoadDesign

Data visualization illustrating how as speed increases, stopping distance increases (eg, at 20mph, stopping distance is 63 feet, while at 30mph it is 119 feet, and 164 feet at 40mph).

#SafeSpeeds is a core element of the #SafeSystemApproach and for improving #RoadSafetyForAll. Explore our California Safe Speeds Toolkit to help inform your community's #SpeedLimit setting: safetrec.berkeley.edu/tools/califo...

Today is the deadline for applications for this training opportunity!

100% free opportunity (it'll just take your time)

Apply by midnight tonight bikeleague.org/applications...

Bike Champion of the Year — Bay Area Bike To Wherever Days

Get ready for #BikeMonth2026! Do you know an exceptional bicycle rider, policymaker, educator, or advocate making a difference in your county? Nominate them for the 2026 Bike Champion of the Year by March 1st: www.bayareabiketowork.com/event-inform... #BTWD2026

Mobility 10x Summit: Accelerating Transportation Innovation Across California - UC Institute of Transportation Studies This event will convene leading experts to discuss implications and explore how RIMI research can inform transportation policy and practice.

Headed to the ITS Mobility10X Summit tomorrow? Don't miss the 12:45pm breakout session "Designing a Safe System: Creating a Transportation Network that Anticipates Human Error" on how to use more proactive, upstream, and effective strategies to improve #RoadSafetyForAll. ucits.org/event/mobili...

Promising Practices to Address Drowsy and Distracted Driving Drowsy and distracted driving are persistent, but preventable, dangerous behaviors behind the wheel. GHSA, with the support of General Motors, is hosting two virtual information exchanges focused on f...

Registration is open for the February 10th and 12th @ghsahq.bsky.social virtual Information Exchange on promising practices to address drowsy and #DistractedDriving: www.ghsa.org/events/promi...

A group of five people on the CSSA walk assessment in Pleasant Hill, CA.

Apply now for a #CompleteStreets #SafetyAssessment in your community - only a few spots remain!! safetrec.berkeley.edu/programs/com... #RoadSafetyForAll

San Jose traffic deaths dropped in 2025 - San José Spotlight San Jose’s traffic fatalities declined once again in 2025, helping the city move closer toward its goal of eliminating all road deaths over the next 15 years.

San Jose traffic deaths dropped in 2025: article discusses role of roadway improvements to protect people walking and biking, speed management, and more: sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-tra... #VisionZero #QuickBuilds #RoadDesign #RoadSafety #SpeedLimits

There's still time to apply for a #CompleteStreets safety assessment in your community to improve walking, biking and rolling for all! Applications are due tomorrow. #SafeSystem #SpeedManagement #Walk #Bike

Event logo with "Mobility 10X, Accelerating Transportation Innovation Across California" in dark blue text on a light blue background.

Coming up next week on 2/6: SafeTREC's Julia Griswold joins @visionzeronet.bsky.social Leah Shahum, Caltrans' Rachel Carpenter, City of Santa Rosa's Daniel Hennessey & UC Irvine's Federico E. Vaca to present on Designing a #SafeSystem at Mobility 10X Summit: safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/safetre...

Excited to read about @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social CEE PhD candidate Linda Lim, a 2025 graduate of Eno’s Leaders Development Conference (LDC), recipient of the Lillian Borrone Scholarship, featured on Eno Center for Transportation's website. Learn more about Linda: enotrans.org/article/buil...

Speeding Up Strategies to Slow Speeds & Save Lives | Vision Zero Network Join Vision Zero Network Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Ivan Cheung, who led development of this pivotal 2017 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) speed management report, for a conversation ...

Still time to register for @visionzeronet.bsky.social 1/29 webinar "Speeding Up Strategies to Slow Speeds & Save Lives" for a conversation about how communities can speed up progress on managing speeds for safety: visionzeronetwork.org/upcoming-web... #SafetyOverSpeed #SafeSystem

Students in the crosswalk at Branham High School during a CSSA safety assessment.

Deadline extended til January 30! Apply today for a #CompleteStreets safety assessment in your community: safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/deadlin... #SafeSystem #SpeedLimits #SafeStreetsForAll

Please join us for the 2026 U.S. Safe System Academy. This workshop will be held at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center. U.S. road safety experts and instructors from the Swedish Transport Administration will enhance knowledge and skills in the Safe System approach.

Registration link: buff.ly/isIhkSj

📣TONIGHT!

Starting at 6:15, join @iihs-hldi's David Harkey for his Deen lecture on road safety at #TRBAM.

https://ow.ly/xPW450XT3mu

Happening today @trb.org #TRBAM: poster session 2110 at 1:30pm ET - join Fehr & Peer's Meghan Mitman for "A Unified Framework for Safe System Implementation", co-authored w/SafeTREC's Julia Griswold, Ipsita Banerjee & Caltrans' Rachel Carpenter: annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgra... #SafeSystem

ITS Berkeley Schedule at TRB | Institute of Transportation Studies A pre-competitive applied research consortium uniting industry, government, and academia to advance connected, electrified, and autonomous systems

ITS Berkeley kicks off Day 1 at #TRBAM! Ride-Hailing, Traffic Modeling, Freeway Bottlenecks, Congestion Recognition, AI-Enabled Infrastructure Monitoring, Air Traffic Management, Motion Prediction, Multi-Agent Anomaly Detection, & Human Mobility Modeling: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...

TRB is almost here! UC Berkeley ITS and Berkeley Lab researchers head to Washington, D.C. for the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting #TRBAM (Jan. 11–15, 2026).
Check out the ITS TRB Schedule: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...

We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.

SafeTREC's Matthew Raifman discusses #AutonomousVehicle safety w/ @davidzipper.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #RoadSafety #SafeSystem

Areas for safety improvement from survey respondents summarized in a data visualization with blue and gold text on a white background: respondents prioritized transparency in safety data and real-world testing (31.2%), followed by calls for better education on capabilities (13.6%) and stronger regulation and oversight (12.2%).

Curious about the public perception of #AutonomousVehicle safety? Explore our latest fact sheet highlighting findings from a recent survey of drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and bicyclists in San Francisco: safetrec.berkeley.edu/public-perce... #RoadSafety

Headshots of three new SafeTREC team members from left to right on a dark cranberry background: project and policy analysts Lilette Gorostieta and Jessica Prasad, followed by postdoctoral scholar Atul Subedi.

We're so excited to welcome Lilette Gorostieta, Jessica Prasad, and Atul Subedi to the SafeTREC team @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! 🎉 ✨Learn more about their #TransportationSafety work: safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/welcome...

Who is the California Bicycle Summit for?

Anyone who envisions a bigger, better future for people on bicycles.

If you yearn for a better way to get around, a calmer street, a more connected community, this is where we come together.

Get your ticket at www.calbike.org/events/summit/

A group photo of ten participants on a walk audit during a Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program training.

Join our January 13th virtual Office Hours next week to learn more about our 2026 programs advancing safer walking, biking and rolling for all and how to apply: safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/join-ou... #Walk #Bike #CompleteStreets #SafetyAssessments #SafeSystem #SafetyOverSpeed

The 2025 Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) awards are out! Congrats to communities advancing safer streets nationwide 👏

Check out this year's list of awards for inspiration for the next round. www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/...
#VisionZero #SS4A #SafeStreets

Participants on the walk assessment during the CSSA in Pleasant Hill, CA.

Apply now for a #CompleteStreets #SafetyAssessment in your community! SafeTREC's CSSA is a comprehensive transportation safety assessment that focuses on pedestrian and bicycle safety - we also have a Safe #SpeedLimits Assessment available. Learn more and apply: safetrec.berkeley.edu/programs/com...