Explore our round-up of webinars and events coming up highlighting the latest road safety trends and best practices in planning and designing safe spaces for walking, biking, scooting, and rolling! Have an event you'd like us to share? Please submit your event here.
Also, these opportunities can be found on the event calendar here.
WEBINARS
Why Open Data Matters for Cycling: Visualizing a Cycling City
Good data is essential for cities and the people who live in them. Often referred to as “The Wikipedia of Google Maps,” OpenStreetMap is a valuable open source data tool with numerous applications from serving as base maps for visualizations, to supporting routing and navigation, to enabling spatial analysis for planning. OpenStreetMap can help cities, practitioners, and advocates visualize how dedicated cycle lanes, slow streets, bicycle parking, bikeshare stations, and other supportive infrastructure come together to form a cycle network.
Learn more about this event here.
Reports from the battle for the curb: Using social media to understand safety challenges faced by urban delivery drivers
Host: Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)
Mar. 23, 2022 |11:30am PT | Register
Recent surges in urban freight delivery—largely driven by e-commerce and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic—have raised concerns surrounding impacts on safety, congestion, curb use, and unauthorized parking of freight vehicles. In this webinar, we highlight recent work that used online conversational data from Reddit to probe challenges delivery drivers face, with a specific focus on parking behavior. In particular, we discuss the implications that these behaviors—and the conditions that precipitate them—have for the safety of road users. Finally, we will discuss primary types of and reasons for unauthorized parking behavior, perceptions of parking enforcement, and interactions drivers reported with other road users.
Speed Data Collection in Cow Hollow
The City is planning to bring short-term safety fixes to Franklin Street. We want to do speed surveys to see what’s really happening with speed on Franklin to shape our advocacy for strong improvements. We’re also going to Broadway and Pacific, two high-injury streets nearby that don’t yet have safety projects planned but badly need them.
Relationship building for temporary demonstrations and quick-build projects
Host: UC Berkeley SafeTREC
Mar. 29, 2022 | 2pm PT | Register
UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) and California Walks are excited to announce a new 3-part training series, the “Strengthening Partnerships: A Peer Exchange Series for former CPBST sites” which will start on March 15, 2022. The biweekly virtual series is designed to support communities as they work to implement the recommendations developed during their Community and Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety (CPBST) workshops.
Relationship building for temporary demonstrations and quick-build projects
Temporary demonstrations and quick-build projects provide tangible, on-the-ground examples of life-saving street safety projects. They are also quick to install and cost-effective compared to typical street infrastructure projects. But, they are often slowed down due to community groups' challenges with navigating city bureaucracy and learning how to build relationships with their decision makers. For quick-builds especially, which may take changes to city and county transportation codes, it is often hard for those organizing in the community to win over their decision makers. Join SafeTREC, Cal Walks and communities across California for a chance to learn tips and tricks to building strong, lasting relationships with decision makers to get temporary demonstrations and quick-build projects in the ground.
Registration is open to participants from prior CPBST sites and is free of charge but limited to 30 participants per peer exchange. A brief summary of each peer exchange will be available about one month after the event.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpretation/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Lisa Peterson at lisapeterson@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
CONFERENCES
National Bike Summit
Host: League of American Bicyclists
The 23rd Annual National Bike Summit will take place Sunday, March 27 - Wednesday, March 30, 2022. At the 2022 National Bike Summit, attendees will convene around the theme of Choosing Our Future. As 2021 has presented individuals and institutions with a host of transformational opportunities, there are many choices ahead about how the bike movement can shape the future for the next generation, from climate change to racial equity. With anticipated big wins for investments in biking infrastructure ahead, now is the time to do the work of engaging with new partners, uplifting underserved communities, and ensuring we build networks on the ground and among movements.
The Summit will be a hybrid event. Learn more and register.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Funding Deadline: Streets for Kids Leadership Accelerators
Sponsor: GDCI
The Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) has opened applications for the Streets for Kids Leadership Accelerator professional development program. Program participants are eligible for project implementation grants of up to $20,000 to support local projects. The Accelerator encourages applications from teams of three people from the same city, that represent an interdisciplinary group of government departments and other organizations. Deadline extended! Applications will be open until Friday, March 18, 2022 at 23:59 ET. Learn more about the program and how to apply.
Deadline: 2022 AARP Community Challenge
Sponsor: AARP Livable Communities
The AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to fund quick-action projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages. This year, applications will be accepted for projects to improve public spaces, housing, transportation and civic engagement; support diversity, equity and inclusion; build engagement for programs under new federal laws; and pursue innovative ideas that support people age 50 or older.
The deadline to apply is March 22, 2022 at 2pm PT | 5pm ET. Learn more about the program.
Deadline: Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) Center
Sponsor: US DOT FHWA
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcing the availability of up to $17.8 million over five years to re-establish seven Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) Centers across the country. The TTAP Centers will help Tribal governments administer and manage their transportation programs and systems.
The deadline to submit an application is March 25, 2022.
Learn more about the TTAP funding opportunity.