Car Culture Researcher Tara Goddard

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. Tara Goddard, PhD, is an assistant professor at the School of Urban Planning at Texas A & 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. Host: Jonathan Maus, editor and publisher of BikePortland.Links: Dr. Goddard Texas A & M Bio Page / @DrTaraGoddard on TwitterPSU Transportation Safety Culture Webinar with Dr. Goddard on February 16thThat driving-centric KATU-TV storyBook: There Are No Accidents, byJessie Singer (Simon & Schuster, 2022)Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving (Article on Ian Walker's "motonormativity" research in The Verge)