The fiscally constrained environment that state DOTs operate in today requires revisiting assumptions about safety performance benefits as well as processes and decisions that drive meeting full safety standards. The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) provides tools to allow agencies to change their design for safety of a facility from traditional “design standards” of the AASHTO Green Book, Roadside Guide, MUTCD, and state design manual to a more performance-based statistical approach. TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 12:30-2:00 PM Eastern that will the explore processes, job aids, tools, workforce training, and the manner in which states have institutionalized the HSM as part of performance-based processes and asset management in planning, design, and operations.

This webinar is sponsored by the TRB Standing Technical Committee on Safety Performance and Analysis.

Registration is free for employees of TRB sponsors as well as Titanium and Cobalt Global Affiliates. The registration rate for all other attendees is $100. Sign into MyTRB.org to view registration information. Contact Patrice Davenport to inquire about becoming a TRB sponsor or global affiliate organization.

A recording will be sent to all registrants after the webinar.

Webinar agenda and presenters

• Data-driven safety analysis implementation plan - Michael Vaugn, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
• Safety analysis guidelines with language and flowcharts that helps determine the extent of safety analysis to be conducted - Brenton Bogard, Ohio Department of Transportation
• Network screening using Part C for rural 2-lane roadway segments - Jon Prendergast, Maine Department of Transportation
• Question and answer session - Jerry Roche, U.S. Federal Highway Administration

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

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

• Adopt new, unique tools developed to aid in data-driven safety analysis implementation within Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
• Implement an iterative process to a project that has an identified safety need to reduce crashes or crash severity.
• Apply crash modification factors to a referencing system for rural two-lane roadway segments for network screening.

Professional Development Hour Information

Professional engineers (PEs) who register and attend the entire webinar as an individual will be awarded 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). TRB’s webinar program awards PDH credits only to the registered individual, and not to other members of a group that view the webinar together. To be eligible for the credits, individuals must remain signed in for the entire webinar, including for any question and answer session following the presentations.

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

TRB will report credits earned to the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005.

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