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Improving Road Safety for Pedestrians and Bicyclists

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Where do you go when you leave your home and how do you get there? In the United States, there is often a car involved and even people who walk and bike to work or school have to exist near cars. Now transportation experts are faced with figuring out why pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities are increasing and how quickly they can stop the problem. In this episode, we hear from ⁠⁠Nicholas Ferenchak,⁠⁠ director of the Center for Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and UNM associate professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering.

Learn more about the ⁠⁠Center for Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety⁠⁠.

Visit ⁠podcast.unm.edu⁠ to learn more about the show.

About Our Guest(s)

Nicholas Ferenchak

Dr. Nicholas Ferenchak is focused on developing sustainable and resilient transportation systems primarily through improved health and safety outcomes. His current research focuses on multimodal aspects of emerging transportation technologies and their impact on health and safety. He teaches highway and traffic engineering on the undergraduate and graduate level. He is active in domestic and international societies including the Transportation Research Board and Institute of Transportation Engineers. Dr. Ferenchak is the center director of the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, a tier-1 University Transportation Center funded by US DOT.

Hosted by UCAM’s Carly Bowling

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Long-time listener, first-time podcaster, Carly Bowling, is a university communication representative in The University of New Mexico’s University Communication and Marketing team (UCAM). She is thrilled to help shed light on the outstanding research work being done at UNM, New Mexico’s only R1 university. In addition to producing IPNRS, she contributes stories and videos to the UNM Newsroom, the University’s official communications platform.

Bowling is a graduate of the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism (’19). Her background includes multimedia journalism, documentary filmmaking, photography and writing. She is passionate about science communication and making academic topics and research accessible and interesting to people from all backgrounds and she hopes you’ll consider subscribing to the show!