Community Pedestrian Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP)

The Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) was launched by UC Berkeley SafeTREC (SafeTREC) in collaboration with California Walks (Cal Walks) to reduce pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and serious injuries in communities across California. The CPBSP prioritizes working in communities that are at disproportionate risk for road traffic injuries and addressing the safety needs of people who are underserved by traditional transportation resources and planning, e.g., older adults, people with lower incomes, people with disabilities, immigrant or refugee populations, and more.

This year, the CPBSP continues to offer two tracks to better support communities’ safety needs. 

Applications are now open for the 2026 CPBSP and available in both English and Spanish. Reach out with any questions about the process to our team at cpbsp@berkeley.edu. For early consideration, please apply by Wednesday, December 19, 2025. Applications will remain open until all slots are filled.

Learn more: 

Download and review the 2026 CPBSP flier: English / Spanish

Follow-up support 

Has your community hosted either a CPBST or CAyS workshop and would like more support? We offer follow-up technical assistance for former CPBST and CAyS communities to support their community’s implementation of programs, projects, and recommendations outlined in their community action plan. We are currently seeking four communities to partner with us. To inquire about follow-up technical assistance, please contact us at cpbsp@berkeley.edu.

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SafeTREC and Cal Walks staff members facilitated a CPBST workshop in East Bakersfield, California.

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Planning committee members participated in a CPBST site visit in Mira Mesa, California.

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Participants engage in a workshop activity during a CAyS workshop in Orange Cove, California.

The program engages residents and non-traditional partners in active transportation planning and strengthens the capacity of community partners to create safer and more accessible streets for those walking and biking in their neighborhoods. We do this by: 

  • Educating participants on pedestrian and bicycle safety strategies and best practices, including the Safe System Approach and Safe Routes to School;

  • Training communities to conduct walking/biking safety assessments to identify community concerns and opportunities for improvements and other data collection to advance their safety goals;

  • Providing site-specific support, including traffic crash data analysis, outreach, pedestrian/bicycle safety research, and activities to develop a community-driven safety action plan; 

  • Sharing resources on open source mapping technology and crowdsourced data strategies;

  • Engaging communities with large monolingual Spanish-speaking populations in active transportation safety discussions and creating shareable educational content;

  • Developing a detailed report summarizing the community’s challenges and opportunities for improvements and context-sensitive recommendations informed by community feedback; and

  • Offering follow-up technical assistance to communities that previously received training to support their pedestrian and bicycle safety efforts.

CPBSP Projects

The Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training Program (CPBST)

The CPBST is our original pedestrian and bicycle safety training, and features a Safe System overview, walk/bike assessment, crash data review, and action planning activity. This training curriculum has been presented in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Interpretation and translation is available as requested in these languages and more. Learn more here

Comunidades Activas y Seguras (Active and Safe Communities)

The CAyS program is our Spanish-language pedestrian and bicycle safety training that provides a culturally and linguistically competent curriculum to the communities we work alongside to support their active transportation advocacy work. Learn more here

Implementing the Safe System Approach ToolkitCover of the Implementing the Safe System Approach Toolkit

Explore our toolkit which aims to help participants create safer communities for walking and biking across California through the use of the Safe System Approach. The toolkit contains potential Safe System strategies which are organized into key categories and can be easily navigated using listed keywords.

There are many ways to plan a bikeable and walkable community; this toolkit is just a starting point. 

Download the full toolkit:

Funding for the CPBSP is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

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