Register now for the latest session in the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Research to Practice Bytes Series on Wednesday, April 26 at 11:30am PT for "Developing an online Vision Zero resource library." Vision Zero is a growing movement throughout the U.S. to eliminate all traffic-related deaths and injuries while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all persons. This presentation provides an overview of the applied, year-long, community-led service-learning project developed by the UNC Highway Safety Research Center for a group of Master of Public Health students in the Health Behavior and Health Equity departments at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill. Students were tasked with developing an online resource library that includes tangible and actionable tools, activities, and other resources that interdisciplinary stakeholders can engage with to make their communities healthier and build community buy-in for equity-centered road safety initiatives, like Vision Zero. This project included conducting key informant interviews, generating reports that detail the roles different stakeholder groups play in Vision Zero efforts, conducting design thinking activities to inform a Dataverse resource repository, and developing a website sustainability plan. Register for the webinar.
Presenters:
- Jordan April, Master of Public Health and Master of City and Regional Planning Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lacie Emmerich, Health Behavior Master of Public Health Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Alessandro Figueroa, Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights Master of Public Health Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Deborah Shoola, Health Behavior Master of Public Health Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CSCRS Research to Practice Bytes
CSCRS’s Research to Practice Bytes series focuses on multidisciplinary research and practices to advance transportation safety. The series frequently features principles and practices related to Safe Systems and the role of systems science, core themes in CSCRS’s initiatives. Visit the CSCRS webinar series webpage for links to recordings and slides for past webinars in the series.
About the CSCRS
The Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS), is a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded National University Transportation Center led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Highway Safety Research Center.
CSCRS is one of five national University Transportation Centers announced in November 2016. The Center unites leading university transportation research, planning, public health, data science and engineering programs with the mission to create and exchange knowledge to advance transportation safety through a multidisciplinary, Safe Systems approach.
The UC Berkeley team, led by the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), is one of five university consortium members, along with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Duke University, Florida Atlantic University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Learn more about SafeTREC's involvement in the CSCRS.