Professional Development Activities

Critical to CSCRS’s approach is broadening the set of institutions and practitioners that understand Safe Systems principles and methods, and have the tools and knowledge needed to improve road safety.

Here are examples of CSCRS professional development activities:

Events and Conferences

• The Safe Systems Summit was held Apr. 23-24, 2019, Durham, NC, offering a learning environment to explore the underlying systems driving the national rise in traffic deaths, share findings from innovative new research, and develop insights into reducing transportation injuries and fatalities by utilizing both Safe Systems and systems thinking principles, tools, and techniques.
• In January 2019, CSCRS hosted its second Safety Sunday @ TRB event with the UTK Southeastern Transportation Center in conjunction with the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting. 
• CSCRS researchers make regular appearances presenting at traffic safety-related professional conferences. To see a sampling of CSCRS presentations and other activities at the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting, visit here.

Lectures, Webinars

• In December 2018 CSCRS and the National Peer Learning Team for Systems Thinking at the North Carolina Division of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch presented the webinar Systems Thinking for Injury and Violence Prevention Practice. A recording of the webinar is available here.

• In 2018, CSCRS partnered with the Vision Zero Network on two webinars about putting Safe Systems into practice for road safety:

  • Safe Systems — What Does it Mean for Vision Zero?, August 2018
  • Safety & Systems for Vision Zero–Putting Theory Into Practice, December 2018
• Florida Atlantic University has held two sessions of its Safe Streets Lecture Series. 
  • A talk by Peter Norton, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, on “The Invention of the Motor Age Street.” 
  • A presentation by Michael Meyer, Senior Advisor, WSP USA, on “Integrating Safety into Transportation Planning.”
• There have been three iterations of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Coffee and Conversation, a 10-part lecture series started in January 2018. It is a biweekly dialogue featuring experts in public health, transportation, planning, engineering, and ethics who explore the many interrelated components of our complex transportation system. 
• The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Transportation Speaker Series features a variety presentations by UTK experts engaged in transportation research. 
• The University of California, Berkeley ’s Weekly Transportation Safety Seminar series highlights the various research projects being conducted at UCB and beyond. The seminars provide a platform for both researchers and students to share ongoing and completed work, as well as get feedback on a work in progress.