Vision for a Safer Road System
Our mission is to create and exchange knowledge to advance
transportation safety through a multidisciplinary, systems-based approach.
HIGHLIGHT
REEL

Watch this video outlining the U.S. road safety crisis and featuring CSCRS’s Safe System work to address the problem.

 
QUICK READ

Review this executive summary providing an overview of CSCRS with a snapshot of our key areas of research and tech transfer and a brief look to what’s next for Safe System implementation.

 
DEEP DIVE

Read this in-depth report exploring CSCRS’s work, demonstrating the breadth of our research and outreach activities covering critical aspects of the Safe System approach.

CSCRS newsletter recaps major accomplishments

Since 2016 our team has been applying public health principles and systems science in our work to equip current and future transportation professionals and stakeholders with more effective tools to solve complex safety challenges. This multidisciplinary work advances Safe Systems concepts — such as accounting for human vulnerabilities and human behavior to proactively limit the chance of fatal injury — through research, education, workforce development, and technology transfer. Our myriad accomplishments and impacts on the field of practice over the last several years have been documented extensively in newslettersprogress reports, conferences, and more. Read the newsletter >

 

UNC HSRC continuing research on Safe Systems

Since 2016 CSCRS has been managed by the UNC Highway Safety Research Center. To follow our continuing work promoting the Safe Systems approach to road safety, visit the HSRC website for the most up-to-date information. Visit the HSRC site >

 

CSCRS consortium is the vanguard of road safety research

Our multidisciplinary team combined UNC’s Department of City and Regional Planning and Injury Prevention Research Center, as well as other leading research programs at Duke, Florida Atlantic and the universities of California, Berkeley and Tennessee, Knoxville. See our team > 

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