Pedestrian Safety Assessment Webinar
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Claude Morelli
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Pedestrian Safety Assessment Webinar
Date: Wednesday September 16, 2009
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: CH2M HILL's ABQ Office is at 4041 Jefferson Plaza NE (Osuna & Jefferson)
Cost: Free (Sponsored by CH2M HILL)
Date: Wednesday September 16, 2009
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: CH2M HILL's ABQ Office is at 4041 Jefferson Plaza NE (Osuna & Jefferson)
Cost: Free (Sponsored by CH2M HILL)
CH2M HILL will be hosting the webinar. If you plan on coming please send an e-mail to Craig Degenhart at:
Craig.De...@ch2m.com
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Pedestrian Safety Assessments: Lessons from California's new program
This webinar will introduce the pedestrian safety assessment (PSA), a comprehensive approach to proactive pedestrian safety planning. PSAs improve pedestrian safety through a citywide assessment of policies,
programs, and practices related to pedestrian safety (using a benchmarking process) and walking audits to provide site-specific and prototypical engineering recommendations. The outcome of a well-crafted PSA is a set of grant-ready recommendations that will enable a community to move forward with safety improvements.
Since May 2008, UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies Technology Transfer Program has provided free PSAs to 21 California cities and counties upon request, thanks to funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) through NHTSA. The PSA program is based on OTS' successful Traffic Safety Evaluations program and features an independent assessment by two pedestrian safety expert evaluators. This webinar highlights the components of the PSA, lessons learned after 21 PSAs, and suggestions for employing a PSA program or PSA elements in your jurisdiction.
This presentation will be of interest to engineers, planners, elected officials, advocates, educators, police officers and policy makers. At the end of the webinar, participants should be able to:
• Identify components of a pedestrian safety assessment, including objectives, data needs, scope and participants
• Understand the benchmarking process used to prioritize opportunities for proactive safety planning
• Effectively engage city staff and residents in identifying opportunities to improve pedestrian safety
• Recognize opportunities for implementing the results of a pedestrian safety assessment.
The PSA program has been the recipient of the ITE Transportation Planning Council's Best Program Award (2009) and the American Planning Association's Best Practice Award ( Northern California and California
State levels, 2009). The technical guide for PSAs and additional program information is available online at: http://www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/pedsafety/
The presenters are Meghan Mitman, Senior Transportation Planner, and Matthew Ridgway, Principal, at Fehr & Peers in San Francisco . They will be joined by Eduardo Serafin, Program Manager at UC Berkeley's
Institute of Transportation Studies Technology Transfer Program . Ms. Mitman and Mr. Ridgway authored the technical guide to conducting PSAs (http://techtransfer.berkeley.edu/tse/psa_handbook.pdf), and have
conducted ten PSAs in the last year.
APBP has applied for one CM credit from the AICP for this webinar. A certificate of attendance for those wanting to claim Professional Development Hours will be available.
Craig.De...@ch2m.com
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Pedestrian Safety Assessments: Lessons from California's new program
This webinar will introduce the pedestrian safety assessment (PSA), a comprehensive approach to proactive pedestrian safety planning. PSAs improve pedestrian safety through a citywide assessment of policies,
programs, and practices related to pedestrian safety (using a benchmarking process) and walking audits to provide site-specific and prototypical engineering recommendations. The outcome of a well-crafted PSA is a set of grant-ready recommendations that will enable a community to move forward with safety improvements.
Since May 2008, UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies Technology Transfer Program has provided free PSAs to 21 California cities and counties upon request, thanks to funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) through NHTSA. The PSA program is based on OTS' successful Traffic Safety Evaluations program and features an independent assessment by two pedestrian safety expert evaluators. This webinar highlights the components of the PSA, lessons learned after 21 PSAs, and suggestions for employing a PSA program or PSA elements in your jurisdiction.
This presentation will be of interest to engineers, planners, elected officials, advocates, educators, police officers and policy makers. At the end of the webinar, participants should be able to:
• Identify components of a pedestrian safety assessment, including objectives, data needs, scope and participants
• Understand the benchmarking process used to prioritize opportunities for proactive safety planning
• Effectively engage city staff and residents in identifying opportunities to improve pedestrian safety
• Recognize opportunities for implementing the results of a pedestrian safety assessment.
The PSA program has been the recipient of the ITE Transportation Planning Council's Best Program Award (2009) and the American Planning Association's Best Practice Award ( Northern California and California
State levels, 2009). The technical guide for PSAs and additional program information is available online at: http://www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/pedsafety/
The presenters are Meghan Mitman, Senior Transportation Planner, and Matthew Ridgway, Principal, at Fehr & Peers in San Francisco . They will be joined by Eduardo Serafin, Program Manager at UC Berkeley's
Institute of Transportation Studies Technology Transfer Program . Ms. Mitman and Mr. Ridgway authored the technical guide to conducting PSAs (http://techtransfer.berkeley.edu/tse/psa_handbook.pdf), and have
conducted ten PSAs in the last year.
APBP has applied for one CM credit from the AICP for this webinar. A certificate of attendance for those wanting to claim Professional Development Hours will be available.
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