Sponsored by ASCE Continuing Education and the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI).

INSTRUCTOR: Nazir Lalani, P.E., M.ASCE

Purpose and Background

Each year, over 37,000 motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists die as the result of traffic collisions in the United States. Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities represent about 15% of total traffic fatalities. During the past 10 years, the United States has averaged well over 7,000 pedestrian and bicycle fatalities per year or one every two hours. Pedestrian and bicycle safety continues to be a challenge to many communities, and therefore, improved pedestrian and bicycle safety has been among the top priorities. Implementing Pedestrian and bicycle safety treatment upgrades is one approach to improving safety for these road users within these communities, because they enable local agencies to systematically identify the issues and problems and effective remedial options through the use of grants from Local Road Safety Programs.

This webinar describes the pedestrian and bicycle safety treatment upgrades implementation and provides guidelines for transportation professionals conducting such studies. While this webinar uses the experience gained in specific communities, the methods described are applicable to communities throughout the United States. Webinar participants should use both national and locally adopted standards, practices, or references as needed as well as those resources identified in this webinar. The webinar will discuss crashes involving pedestrians and bicyclists and possible ways to avoid designers and local agencies from becoming involved in having to defend the designs of their facilities. The webinar will be interactive so that participants can learn from quiz questions as well as comments from members of the audience.

Primary Discussion Topics

• Best treatments for improving pedestrians safety
• Best treatments for improving bicyclist safety
• Best sources of information from published reports and web sites
• Recent developments in the use of RRFBS and PHBs

Learning Outcomes

• List the six most critical steps in identifying pedestrian and bicycle safety upgrades
• Identify 20 items of information to analyze where pedestrians and bicyclists are most at risk
• Identify the most current discussions and debates as to what works and what doesn’t
• Grow from questions asked by the presenter to the webinar participants and their responses

Webinar Benefits

• Improved knowledge about improving pedestrian and bicycle safety at specific locations and community-wide
• Learn about creating safe, comfortable, accessible, and welcoming environments for pedestrians and bicyclists
• Better understanding of how to reduce pedestrian and cyclist deaths and injuries at intersections and along heavily traveled corridors

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

• Transportation engineers/planners
• Design and maintenance staff of local agencies and State Departments of Transportation
• Consultants designing pedestrian and bicycle facilities for local agencies

Webinar Outline

Pedestrians

• Pedestrian crossing installation guidelines
• Identifying alternative treatments
• Major street crossings at uncontrolled locations
• Rectangular Rapid Flash Beacons – Do they really work?
• Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons-Best design practices
• Timing of pedestrian activated devices
• Effectiveness of various signing and striping treatments at uncontrolled crossings
• Residential streets designs to promote livable environments
• Potential tort liability exposure
• Addressing the needs of pedestrians with vision impairments
• Improving the safety of School related crossings
• Case studies of existing substandard pedestrian facilities

Bicyclists

• Designing safer bicycle lanes
• Best signing and striping for bicyclist facilities
• Handling bicycles at intersections including signal timing for bicycles
• Most common causes of bicycle collisions
• Mid-block crossings for bicyclists
• Bicycles at freeway ramps-what works?
• Road diets-the pros and cons
• Bicycle boulevards-learn from case studies
• Angle parking and parking in bicycle lanes
• Railroad crossing challenges facing bicyclists
• Bicycles and mass transit facilities
• Results from a city wide approach to improving bicycle safety treatments
• Updated information from the latest bicycle related publications and research reports

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]