As recommended by California’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), Caltrans is working to develop a pedestrian and bicyclist safety improvement program. This presentation by Rachel Carpenter provided an overview of what has been completed since the program’s inception in 2016 as well as next steps. Specifics behind the below listed efforts were shared.

the 2016 (Pilot) Pedestrian Collision Monitoring Program, the 2018 (Pilot) Bicyclist Collision Monitoring Program, the 2020 Pedestrian Collision Monitoring Program, pedestrian and bicyclist safety training, and modifications to California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (CA MUTCD) related to pedestrian and bicyclist safety and operations.