Research

Report: The Role of Uber and Lyft in Sustainable Cities

November 23, 2021
Clemens V. Vogelsang via Flickr, CC BY 4.0Recommendations include road pricing, street redesign, electrification, and fair labor practices

See the story at NDRC: https://www.nrdc.org/media/2021/211117

As office workers return to downtown areas, cities must tackle the traffic...

UC Berkeley and EBMUD announce new Center for Smart Infrastructure

November 18, 2021
By Sarah Yang, Berkeley Engineering, and Andrea Pook, EBMUD
Smart Infrastructure at RFSCivil and environmental engineering professor Kenichi Soga hosts EBMUD staff at UC Berkeley's Richmond Field Station in preparation for launching the new Center for Smart Infrastructure. (Photo by Adam Lau, Berkeley Engineering)

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Stockholm Tops 2021 Urban Mobility Readiness Index with Significant Investment in Electric Vehicles and Public Transit Infrastructure

November 4, 2021

Mobility Readiness leading cities

San Francisco ranks second as it rebounds from COVID-19 and continues the shift to sustainable mobility options Helsinki, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Zurich climb up the ranking to the top 10, while Singapore, London, New York, and Hong Kong lose ground New sustainable mobility sub-index showcases how cities are investing and organising to ensure their...

Lagrangian Control at Large and Local Scales in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flow

October 28, 2021

Alexandre BayenITS Director Alexandre Bayen presented the plenary session Lagrangian Control at Large and Local Scales in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flow at The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA October 24-27,...

SWITRS and TIMS Tools for Crash Data in California

October 12, 2021

SafeTREC Applications Program Manager SangHyouk Oum presented, "SWITRS and TIMS Tools for Crash Data in California" On Thursday, September 23, 2021, SafeTREC Applications Program Manager SangHyouk Oum presented, "SWITRS and TIMS Tools for Crash Data in California" via Zoom for...

https://safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/safetrecs-sanghyouk-oum-presents-switrs-tims-…

The Citations Chase

October 25, 2021

INFORMS MAgazineIn a recent article, The Citations Chase: Bibliometrics – the most important publishing statistic? in the The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) ORMS Today magazine, author...

New TIMS feature: Users can now provide feedback on crash location errors

September 30, 2021

UC Berkeley SafeTREC’s Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS) has been developed to provide quick, easy and free access to California crash data from the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) that has been geo-coded to make it easy for users to query, map, and download collision data.

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https://safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/new-tims-feature-users-can-now-provide-feedba…

Broadening the Toolbox for Kinetic Energy Management

September 8, 2021
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Offer Grembek, Co-Director, Berkeley, Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) was featured in the August 6, 2021 Safe Systems

Summer Learning Series – 2021: Broadening the Toolbox for Kinetic Energy Management (an all ITS Berkeley alumni seminar).

As more organizations seek to understand and adopt Safe System principles, there is a need to create space to unpack complex concepts, examine the nuances, and share in a constructive dialogue on what supports are still needed for Safe System approaches to be successful in meeting community safety, health, and...

Redesigning the System to Support Safety

September 7, 2021
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Katherine Chen, Senior Policy & Program Analyst, Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) was featured in the July 30 Safe Systems
Summer Learning Series – 2021.

As more organizations seek to understand and adopt Safe System principles, there is a need to create space to unpack complex concepts, examine the nuances, and share in a constructive dialogue on what supports are still needed for Safe System approaches to be successful in meeting community safety, health, and equity needs. In this series, we bring together panelists with diverse perspectives to...

New resource: 2021 CPBST Program Workshop Follow-Up Survey Highlights

September 8, 2021

According to the latest traffic safety data from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS)(link is external) while traffic fatalities have decreased 5.1% from 3,798 in 2018 to 3,606 in 2019, the safety for those walking and biking in our communities continues to be a concern. In 2019, there were 972 pedestrian fatalities (a 0.6% decrease from 2018) and 133 bicyclist fatalities (a 19.5% decrease from 2018). Ensuring that our communities are safe...

https://safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/new-resource-2021-cpbst-program-workshop-foll…