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Human Trafficking and the Role of Transportation
The Human Trafficking Tie to Transportation - July 2020
This webinar features research-based data, survivor-informed messaging, practical ways that you can identify potential incidents of human trafficking, what to safely do with what you observe and how you can encourage others to join you in the fight to end modern day slavery.
Presenters:
- Kristen Joyner (Executive Consultant and Trainer at South West Transit Association)
- Chief David Lorenzen (Interim Director of Operations Division at Iowa DOT Motor Vehicle Enforcement)
Reviewing Your Road Through the Lens of Motorcycle Safety
Complete Streets for Rural Areas 1
Complete Streets for Rural Areas
Rural Funding Opportunities in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law 1
Local Safety Funding Options - August 1, 2018
Become familiar with Safety Funding for Local Safety projects through examples of local agency funding, state and federal funding, as well as other opportunities to invest in safety projects. Presenters:
- Hillary Isebrands (Safety Engineer at FHWA Resource Center)
- Scott Davis (Traffic Engineering & Operations Manager for Thurston County)
- Karen Scurry (Program Manager at FHWA Office of Safety)
- Donna Buchwald (Office Director in the Office of Local Systems at Iowa DOT)
Unpaving Guide - February 18, 2020
This webinar provides information on converting distressed paved roads to engineered unpaved roads. Learn to identify a candidate road for paving and to conduct a road investigation; about unpaved road design considerations, specific information on converting roads from paved to unpaved, lifecycle cost information and tools, and information and tools to aid in communicating unpaving with the public.
Presenters:
- Laura Fay (Research Scientist at WTI-MSU)
- David Jones (Associate Director of the University of California Pavement Research Center at UC Davis)
Unpaved Road Safety - November 20, 2017
Become familiar with the safety concerns and potential solutions on unpaved roads.
Presenters:
- Rosemarie Anderson (Transportation Specialist at FHWA Office of Safety)
- Ken Skorseth (Special Projects Manager at SD LTAP)
- David Veneziano (Safety Circuit Rider at IA LTAP)
Converting Paved Roads to Unpaved - April 4, 2017
In this webinar, co-hosted by Center for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation in Cold Climates, presenters discuss the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Synthesis 485 “Converting Paved Roads to Unpaved” report.
Presenters:
- Ken Skorseth (Program Manager at South Dakota LTAP and South Dakota State University)
- Laura Fay (Research Scientist at Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University Bozeman)
- David Jones (Associate Director of the University of California Pavement Research Center at UC Davis)
Roadkill Observation & Data System: Streamlining An-Veh Collision Data Collection - April 13, 2021
This webinar focuses on the recently completed Phase 3 of an animal-vehicle collision (AVC) data collection system called ROaDS (Roadkill Observation and Data System).
Presenters:
- Rob Ament (Road Ecology Program Manager at WTI)
- Matthew Bell (Research Engineer at WTI)
Review of the Effectiveness of Mitigation that Seek to Reduce An-Veh Collisions - October 30, 2019
This webinar presents the latest information on the relative effectiveness of mitigation measures that seek to reduce animal-vehicle collisions (AVCs) by reviewing the preliminary results of a Transportation Pooled-Fund Project – TPF 5 358, Wildlife Vehicle Collision Reduction and Habitat Connectivity study.
Presenter:
- Rob Ament (Road Ecology Program Manager at WTI)
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