Thursday, June 19th, 1:00 – 2:30 pm EST
In this webinar you will learn about the discipline of human factors, how human factors can impact rural road safety, and strategies you can implement in your community for mitigating related risks. You will also learn about the updated Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, which is expected to be released in summer/fall 2025, as well as NCHRP 1111 which focuses on procedures for assessing human factors contributions to crashes and selecting countermeasures that mitigate human factors risks.Tuesday, August 19th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Get an overview of safety trends and a national understanding of roadway safety. Also, discuss techniques for safety collaboration, the importance of prioritizing safety over other considerations, and how an individual can become a Road Safety Champion.Tuesday, August 26th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
This course will equip human factors “non”-experts to better consider the capabilities and limitation of road users and incorporate them into policies and practices. Knowing how road users interact with their vehicle, the roadway, and other road users can also provide useful insights for decision making for construction and maintenance personnel, planners, engineers, public health professionals, and law enforcement.Tuesday, September 2nd, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Learn why growing positive traffic safety culture can significantly improve road safety in your community and nationwide. Participants will leave the training better understanding the elements that shape traffic safety culture, how those factors interact to affect human behaviors, strategies that can be implemented to improve traffic safety culture among various groups, and ideas about how participants can use their role (and the role of others) in growing a positive traffic safety culture.Tuesday, September 9th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
This module is an introduction and overview of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). The MUTCD defines the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed, and used on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public traffic. This module will explain the need for uniformity of traffic control devices and traffic signals across locations.Tuesday, September 16th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
This training will discuss the need for transportation, public health, and law enforcement agencies to work together on the road to zero and to see transportation safety from each other’s perspective. Learn the similarities and differences in their respective planning processes, discipline-specific strategies used for improving road safety, and collaborative approaches.Tuesday, September 23rd, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Learn how to “read the road” as well as the importance of incorporating it in daily activities. The training will include real-world examples so participants can discover potential safety issues during their routine activities. It will also discuss how the road safety audit process can be used to read the road through a more formal approach.Tuesday, September 30th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
This training is an overview of the safety analysis process and will discuss how it can be applied using two different but complementary methods: traditional site analysis and systemic analysis. This module will help practitioners identify the factors that contribute to crashes and some of the countermeasures used to reduce them. Case studies will be presented to demonstrate practical applications of safety analysis.Tuesday, October 7th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Learn safety solutions that maintenance crews can implement in their regular work. The course includes a hands-on case study to equip crews to identify needs for shoulder drop-offs, right-of-way obstructions, striping and signing, guardrails, mowing, sweeping, patching, drainage, winter maintenance, and others.Wednesday, October 8th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12-2 pm MT
Timothy Barnett, ATI, tebarnett1@ua.edu
Learn how first responders can use and interpret the principles in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) for traffic incidents, emergencies, and disasters. This module includes understanding the duties of first responders and using tools such as emergency vehicle lighting, changeable message signs (CMS), and emergency management signing
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