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Participants will automatically receive 6 credit hours toward their CT Safety Champion Designation AND their CT LTA Certificate of Completion.

A Connecticut Safety Academy Workshop and A Connecticut Local Traffic Authority ELECTIVE Workshop

*Participants will receive 6 credit hours toward their CT Safety Champion Designation along with LTA elective credit.

Course Description:

At this workshop we will discuss roadway design and its relation to speed, setting speed limits, data and speed analyses, and the benefits of a comprehensive speed management program. In addition, the course will include a hands-on interactive approach to speed management through several local case studies, integrating both completed and proposed projects discussing speed limit setting and alternative design implications. This course is funded through a special grant from the CT Department of Transportation.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, participants will:

• Understand the importance of a speed management program in your municipality.
• Be familiar with tools that can assist in speed management including speed feedback signs.
• Know how to address speed issues in your community.
• Understand speed management strategies and be able to identify application procedures from the local level.

Who Should Attend:

This class is for municipal employees, especially those who will be implementing the speed feedback signs from the T2 Center's Speed Feedback Sign Program into their municipality’s speed management strategy. Municipalities are encouraged to send a team that may include the following: Local Traffic Authorities, Chief Elected Officials, Public Works Directors, Municipal Engineers, and Police personnel responsible for speed management.

Instructors:

Michael A. Knodler, Jr., Ph. D., is the Director of the UMass Transportation Center. His main areas of research and teaching are related to transportation safety, operations, design, and education. Recently, he has conducted research on the topics of pedestrian and bicycle safety, crash data quality and analysis, protected/permissive left-turn signal operations, and change and clearance interval safety.

Francis T. Tainter, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Transportation Engineering Program of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His main research is in transportation safety, operations, policy, and human factors. He just completed a term as an active member of the ACH50 TRB Committee on Road User Measurement and Evaluation.

Registration:

• Please email any questions to Lisa Knight at lisa.knight@uconn.edu.
• Cost: Free. No registration fee is charged for this class. This training opportunity is offered by the Training & Technical Assistance Center's Connecticut Safety Academy.
• If a participant fails to attend the workshop and does not inform our team by phone or email by the morning of the training, a $25.00 no-show fee will be charged. Alternatively, you may send a replacement from your agency.
• Lunch will be provided. 
• Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
• Approximately one week prior to the class, you will receive an email confirmation of your attendance, along with the address of the workshop location.
• If you require an accommodation to participate in this workshop, please contact Lisa Knight at lisa.knight@uconn.edu.
• Please advise if you have dietary restrictions. 
• Video/Photographs may be taken for promotional and training purposes. Please notify us during registration if you do not wish to be photographed/filmed.