Car Culture Researcher Tara Goddard

<p>When it comes to the goal of safer streets and "Vision Zero," how much of a focus should we put on individual driver behaviors and infrastructure design? The "systems versus people" debate is raging as cities and advocates grapple with record traffic fatalities. </p><p>Tara Goddard, PhD, is an assistant professor at the School of Urban Planning at Texas A &amp; M University. She earned her doctorate in urban planning from Portland State University and she's led several studies about car culture, "windshield bias" and more. </p><p><strong>Host:</strong> Jonathan Maus, editor and publisher of BikePortland.</p><p><strong>Links: </strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n17ac11f6/Persons/View%20All" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Goddard Texas A &amp; M Bio Page</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/DrTaraGoddard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DrTaraGoddard</a> on Twitter</li><li><a href="https://www.pdx.edu/urban-studies/events/psu-transportation-seminar-transportation-safety-culture-where-we-are-and-what-it-means" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PSU Transportation Safety Culture Webinar with Dr. Goddard on February 16th</a></li><li><a href="https://katu.com/news/local/se-division-residents-express-concerns-about-raised-medians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">That driving-centric KATU-TV story</a></li><li>Book: <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accidents/Jessie-Singer/9781982129668" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>There Are No Accidents, byJessie Singer</em></a> <em>(Simon &amp; Schuster, 2022</em>)</li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579510/car-brain-motornormativity-study-ian-walker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><u>Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving</u></em></a><em> (Article on Ian Walker's "motonormativity" research in The Verge)</em></li></ul><br/><p> </p>