May is National Bike Month, and ASCE San Jose YMF is kicking it off by bringing back Yasmine Al Moghrabi from the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety for a free, online Tech Talk on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM on Zoom.
Yasmine will highlight the Coalition’s goals and objectives, focusing on the US Department of Transportation’s Safe System Approach to road safety from a Civil Engineering perspective.
All are welcome to attend: students, professionals, and community members interested in road safety, civil engineering, transportation engineering, urban planning, and other related fields.
Reserve your virtual seat now via Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and access code.
What Is a Safe System Approach?
“U.S. DOT adopts a Safe System Approach as the guiding paradigm to address roadway safety. The Safe System Approach has been embraced by the transportation community as an effective way to address and mitigate the risks inherent in our enormous and complex transportation system. It works by building and reinforcing multiple layers of protection to both prevent crashes from happening in the first place and minimize the harm caused to those involved when crashes do occur. It is a holistic and comprehensive approach that provides a guiding framework to make places safer for people.”
What is the Youth Coalition for Road Safety?
“We are passionate young people from across the world taking action on safer mobility and championing meaningful youth participation in road safety and beyond. We operate from a set of principles that define and guide our work, globally and locally. We offer you resources, skills, partnerships and opportunities to take your ideas to the next level and maximize their impact. We believe that global and local action is needed to make the world’s roads safer for everyone and connect it to key related topics such as health, sustainable cities, climate change, education, poverty and equality. Will you join us to start #ClaimingOurSpace? We continue the movement by #ClaimingOurSpace for safe mobility and at the decision-making table.”
Learn more: https://claimingourspace.org/youthcoalition
Follow: https://www.instagram.com/claimingour.space
Meet the Speaker
Yasmine Al Moghbrabi
Yasmine is a Lebanese young leader named one of the top 10% of changemakers around the world who has taken action on behalf of the Global Goals. She holds a master’s degree in Road Safety Management and a master’s degree in Highway, Transportation, and Traffic Engineering. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering in the USA and she is passionate about road safety. Currently, she is Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Champion and Youth Advocate for Road Safety. She was also selected as a remarkable feminist voice in transport from across the globe.
