This workshop shows participants ways to identify road safety issues, implement low-cost safety countermeasures, and reduce fatalities and injuries caused by road departures, collisions with fixed objects, and collision at intersections. The workshop also addresses measures to improve roadway and intersection safety for all road users, and provides examples of low-cost maintenance and safety improvements on roads.
The workshop stresses the importance of road safety, and illustrates how it can be integrated into local transportation construction, operations, and maintenance. Through practical exercises and facilitator-led discussions, the emphasis is on operations and maintenance to reflect the predominant, day-to-day responsibilities of local transportation agencies. The benefits of safety initiatives are shown.
Instructor Bio:
Todd Morrison, P.E., is a Technology Transfer Engineer with the Kentucky Local Technical Assistance Program, at the University of Kentucky. He retired from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet after serving in the Divisions of Construction,
Maintenance and Traffic. At the Cabinet, he worked with environmental, work zone, pavement, construction and maintenance concerns as an Environmental Coordinator, Maintenance/Traffic Engineer, Resident/Construction Engineer, Area Engineer, and as a Branch Manager for Operations. Recently he served for two years as Kentucky’s Safety Circuit Rider helping local agencies identify low cost improvements to reduce crashes.
This in-classroom training is being provided at no-cost and will award 6.0 PDHs upon completion.
There will be a one-hour lunch break, however meals are not provided.
Space for this workshop is limited, and local agencies are being given first priority!
Agenda
| 1. Welcome / Introductions |
| 2. Low-Cost Safety Countermeasures (Signage, Striping, and High Friction Surfacing) Part 1 |
| 3. Class Activity – Low Cost Solutions for Curves |
| 4. Break |
| 5. Low-Cost Safety Countermeasures (Signage, Striping, and High Friction Surfacing) Part 2 – Includes Class Activity on Sign Layout |
| 6. Low-Cost Safety Countermeasures (Rumble Strips, Crown/Drainage, Super Elevation, Bridge Drainage/Signage, Vegetation Control, and Sight Lines) Part 1 |
| 7. Lunch |
| 8. Low-Cost Safety Countermeasures (Rumble Strips, Crown/Drainage, Super Elevation, Bridge Drainage/Signage, Vegetation Control, and Sight Lines) Part 2 & Class Activity |
| 9. Low-Cost Safety Countermeasures (Clear Zone, Slopes, Hazards in the Clear Zone) |
| 10. Low-Cost Safety Countermeasures (What to do with Hazards in the Clear Zone) |
| 11. Break |
| 12. Low-Cost Safety Countermeasures (What to do with Hazards in the Clear Zone) |
| 13. Class Activity: Identify Safety Issues and Countermeasures |
| 14. Q&A / Final Remarks/ Evaluations/Adjourn |
SOUTH FLORIDA
FORT MYERS, FL
DATE: June 23, 2020
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
LOCATION: FDOT SW Area Office, Large Conference Room, 10041 Daniels Parkway, Ft. Myers, FL 33913
Cancelled
MIAMI, FL
DATE: September 15, 2020
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
LOCATION: FDOT District 6 Auditorium, 1000 NW 111 Avenue, Miami, FL 33172
Cancelled
PAST WORKSHOPS
LAKE CITY, FL
DATE: Tues., February 25, 2020
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
LOCATION: FDOT District 2 Office, Madison Conference Room (1st floor), 1109 South Marion Ave, Lake City, FL 32025
ORLANDO, FL
DATE: Weds., February 26, 2020
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
LOCATION: FDOT Orlando Operations Center – McCoy Conference Room, 420 W. Landstreet Road, Orlando, FL 32824
TAMPA, FL
DATE: Thurs., February 27, 2020
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
LOCATION: Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida, 3808 Alumni Drive, Tampa, FL 33620