The TRIPS Lab team gathered in green to show support and raise awareness for National Injury Prevention Research Day on November 18th, 2023. The TRIPS Lab’s overall mission is to work towards eliminating preventable injuries and deaths. To learn more about Nation Injury Prevention Day and ways to get involved click here.

Cara Hamann, Michelle Reyes, Amir Ghanbari, and Elizabeth O'Neal presented on various research topics at the 2023 Traffic and Records Forum hosted by Iowa State University's Institute for Transportation (InTrans) on November 8th. The TRIPS Lab presenters discussed 4-3 lane road conversions, cycling to school route choice, and child and adult responses to autonomous vehicle communication cues. Click to learn more about the forum.

Dr. Gilsu Pae, Postdoctoral Scholar, was awarded the Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) prize for his CPH Research Week poster. Pae's poster was titled Identifying risk factors related to older driver crash culpability in Iowa, 2010 to 2020. Dr. Pae's ongoing research is filling gaps in existing literature on older driver safety. Click to learn more about TRIPS Lab research on older driver safety.

Amir Ghanbari has been named the recipient of the 2023 H. Clay Gabler Scholar’s Program Award from the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM). The award includes $20,000 to support his research proposal to assess the burden of hospitalization for adolescent bicycling injuries in the U.S. Click to learn more from CPH News.

An article by Amir Ghanbari and other TRIPS Lab collaborators was recently published in the journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TRIP). The article analyzes the predictors of self-reported passing behaviors among drivers attempting to pass farm equipment on rural roadways. Click to read the article.

In September, partners from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, and the United States met in Tbilisi, Georgia for iCREATE (Increasing Capacity for Injury Research in Eastern Europe) Week.  The University of Iowa contributed knowledge of global road safety trends, crash risk factors among older adults, youth bicycling safety education, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Click to learn more from our partner, Tbilisi State University (TSU).

In partnership with the Iowa City Bike Library and Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County (NCJC), the research team has conducted the 12-hour Bike Club Safety Camp with 78 children between ages 9-12 since Summer 2022. Preliminary data analysis on this NIH-funded study is underway as the team prepares for the final year of data collection. Click to learn more about this project and other related studies.

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