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TRB Webinar: Accessibility Guidance for Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes


Date(s)
July 26, 2017 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM U.S. Eastern
Cost (for your seat)
$105.00
Professional Development Hours for this webinar
1.50 hour(s)
Continuing Education Hours for this webinar
AAE: 0.00 hour(s)
AICP: 1.50 hour(s)
CLE: 0.00 hour(s)
Details

TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, from 1:00PM to 2:30PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Report 834: Crossing Solutions at Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes for Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities: A Guidebook.

This webinar covers a national study of accessibility challenges at roundabouts and channelized turn lanes and explores potential solutions for pedestrians with vision disabilities. Presenters will focus on a performance-based design and analysis process that is geared toward engineers and planners for new facility designs, as well as retrofits.


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Webinar Presenters

  • Bastian Schroeder, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
  • Pete Jenior, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
  • Janet Barlow, Accessible Design for the Blind

Moderated by:  Howard McCulloch, New York State Department of Transportation

Webinar Outline

  1. Overview of NCHRP
  2. Overview of guidebook
  3. Sample applications
  4. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions. The Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP) categorizes this webinar activity as relating to health, safety, and welfare including core technical.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the objectives and contents of the guidebook
  • Describe accessibility challenges for blind pedestrians at roundabouts and channelized turn lanes
  • Distinguish between crossing and wayfinding challenges
  • Identify treatments geared to enhancing accessibility of new sites and retrofits

 

Professional Development Hour Information
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A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be provided to Professional Engineers (PEs) who register and attend the webinar as an individual. For groups, only the person that registers and attends the session will receive a PDH certificate. Certificates of Completion will be issued only to individuals who register for and attend the entire webinar session.

Individuals registered as Florida PEs are no longer required to email TRB with your license number to report your attendance. Instead, please use your certificate that TRB provides through RCEP.net as verification of your attendance to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers.

Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

This webinar was developed in October 2016. TRB has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP by TRB. Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Website: www.RCEP.net.

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits


This webinar is approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits.  Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website, Certification Maintenance webpage at www.planning.org/cm to claim your credits. You may use the following steps:

  1. Log in using your ID# and password.
  2. Select View my CM log.
  3. Select Add CM-Registered Credits.
  4. Using the CM Search option, type in the name of the event or event number (e.g. 21064) and click "Go".

Please note: If searching for an event by Provider, use the search option, type in the name of the provider and click “Go”. From the results below, select by clicking on the name of the provider.

  1. From the results below, find your event and select "Add to My Log." If this is a multi-part event, you will have the option to select from a list of activity sessions.
  2. Please rate the event, add a comment (optional), and click on the Ethics statement and check the box to confirm. Note: you should see a message indicating the CM reporting period year that you are logging.
  3. Click submit and the CM credits should appear in your CM log.


If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact AICPCM@planning.org. 

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.