Rhonda Craft, Director at Office of Traffic Safety & Karen Coyle, Regional Coordinator for Los Angeles County
Dr. Jia & Dr Cheng provide our guests with a highly esteemed introduction. They are both hard workers and know Dr. Cheng & Dr. Jia personally and from their professional backgrounds.
Rhonda Craft
Background
- Traffic Policy Creator
- Chief of Driver Safety Program at DMV
- Director of Office of Traffic Safety
- Applied after a recommendation from her boss in the DMV
- Later received a phone call from the governor's office, to her surprise opened a great door
Governor's Traffic Safety Corespondent
Every year the office creates a Highway Traffic Safety Plan
2015 Highway Traffic Safety Plan
San Francisco has created a group named "Vision Zero" aimed to improve pedestrian safety.
SWITERS is a state wide traffic collision database for CA
Wants to see an improvement in emergency response with traffic collisions
National Highway Safety Act
OTE doesn't use the word "accident" since "crashes" are usually avoidable.
Public Service Announcements
- Click It Or Ticket
- Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
- Don't be a distracted Zombie
- DDVIP App (Google Play) for your phone to promote driver safety in cooperation with restaurants
- DDVIP App ( Apple App Store) use it to find great restaurants and have a fun SAFE night
- Rite Approach - responsibility to drive safely
Karen Coyle
Job at OTS is to look at all funding options and where the funds should go.
Has been working with OTS for 13 years.
OTS Collision Ranking System: Look to see how your city compares
Empirical Bayesian (EB) Method improve the system by only having a single ranking for the OTS Collision Raking.
Ms. Coyle works with Dr. Jia and Dr. Cheng on the ranking system and make it as accurate as possible, with continued research.
- This ranking system improves OTS's ability to distribute funds.
- Cal Poly Pomona does receive some funding to help improve the ranking system and research.
OTS Website
OTS Regional Coordinators for CA