Interested in learning more about the practical application of the Safe System approach to road safety? The Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) is hosting two upcoming webinars as part of their CSCRS Research to Practice Bytes series that will explore real-life Safe System scenarios:
Case studies from across the U.S. on using systems thinking tools to inform Safe System partnership, strategic planning, and research
DATE: Wednesday, October 26, 2022
TIME: 11:30am - 12:30pm PT
Presenter: Becky Naumann, Core Faculty at the Injury Prevention Research Center and Assistant Research Professor of Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill
Description: As communities across the US work to embrace Safe System principles, tangible tools and frameworks are needed to guide their planning, partnership, and implementation efforts. Additionally, tools are needed to help researchers study different collaboration models and pinpoint specific research needs for operationalizing a Safe System approach. This session will provide real-world examples illustrating systems thinking tools that transportation practitioners, researchers, and coalitions can use in their partnership development, strategic planning, and research to help with adoption of a multidisciplinary Safe System approach.
How to get a Safe Systems wrong...and how to get it right
DATE: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
TIME: 11:30am - 12:30pm PT
Presenters: Eric Dumbaugh, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, and Seth LaJeunesse, Senior Research Associate, UNC Highway Safety Research Center
Description: While Safe System concepts offer many new ways of advancing injury prevention, many agencies continue to fail to see change. In this webinar, we offer an overview of common pitfalls in practice, as well as a case study of one community that is overcoming barriers and innovating its way toward a Safe System.
Learn more about the CSCRS Research to Bytes series, and watch the recordings for past sessions.
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.
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.
Led by the UNC Highway Safety Research Center in collaboration with the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, CSCRS unites leading transportation research, planning, public health, data science and engineering programs at:
- Duke University
- Florida Atlantic University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville