A Connecticut Safety Academy Workshop

Course Description:

This course provides local officials the steps to developing a pedestrian safety action plan, program and activities specifically tailored to their community. It also assists agencies that have an existing action plan with further enhancing it. The course emphasizes the importance of involving partners and stakeholders, collecting and analyzing data and information, prioritizing issues and concerns, selecting and implementing an optimal combination of education, enforcement, engineering strategies. The workshop includes a field exercise in the application of the principles, concepts, and strategies covered in the course. Participants will share and prioritize potential policies, programs, and strategies.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Develop and implement a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan that addresses your specific issues, problems, needs, and resources.
• Describe how pedestrians should be considered and provided for during the planning, design, work zone, maintenance, and operations phases.
• Describe how human behavior affects the interaction between pedestrians and drivers.
• Identify good practices and effective solutions to enhance pedestrian safety and accessibility.
   

Who Should Attend:

Municipal and State transportation professionals, traffic and safety engineers, planners, and law enforcement personnel responsible for improving pedestrian safety are encouraged to attend.

Credit Hours