Improving Safety at Intersections

Dates: March 10-24, 2016

Meets: Th from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Location: Online

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.

This class is offered in partnership with the California Department of Transportation, Division of Local Assistance. Registration fees are subsidized with funding from the Cooperative Training Assistance Program. Reduced rates are available to employees of California's city, county, regional, and other public agencies only.

Credits

This course grants 0.6 CEUs and 6.0 CMs. (AICP CMs pending approval)

Description

About 65 percent of all crashes in urban areas and 40 percent of those in rural areas occur at or near intersections or driveways. Safety improvements at these locations have always been a priority and pose a challenge for most transportation agencies in California. Because crashes are typically complex events, a great diversity of mitigation measures have been tried with varying degrees of success, including the modern round-about. A comprehensive program to reduce crashes by implementing engineering measures should find ways to improve safety and traffic operations at high crash intersections and at mid-block locations. It should also look at collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists.

This webinar will discuss the best approach to identifying mitigation measures that can be successful in reducing collisions. It will identify the different types of measures that can be used depending on the historical patterns at a given location. This webinar offers a range of guidelines, solutions, and strategies for reducing conflicts and crashes at intersection locations. Safety improvements appropriate for both urban and rural areas are explored. The webinar will be interactive with the students who will be asked to identify the best possible solutions to specific safety problems. Case studies will be discussed and what can be learned from them.

Topics Include

  • Intersection Safety Facts and Elements - What is the data telling us?
  • Improving the Effectiveness of Traffic Control Devices
  • The Importance of Sight Distance for Intersection Safety
  • Reducing Collisions at High Crash Intersections
  • Safety Aspects of Designing Signalized Intersections
  • Twenty Pitfalls of Timing Traffic Signals
  • Safety Aspects of Non-Signalized Intersections
  • Do Roundabouts Always Work?
  • Innovative Designs for Improving Intersection Safety and Capacity

What you will learn

Students will obtain a rich set of information to help them select appropriate safety improvement options and make better decisions about how to reduce collisions at all types of intersections.

Who should attend

This course is intended for planners, engineers, and public safety personnel in municipal, county, and state agencies with responsibility for reducing traffic collisions.

For More Information

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Cancellation Policy

To cancel your registration and receive a refund less a $75 processing fee, you must notify TechTransfer at least five (5) working days before the course is scheduled to begin. Notifications must be made in writing and sent by email to registrar@techtransfer.berkeley.edu. We reserve the right to charge the full course fee if proper notification is not sent to TechTransfer. We don't offer refunds for classes with registration fees of $75 or less.

In lieu of canceling your registration, you have three additional options: you may (1) transfer your registration to another class, (2) receive a tuition credit for the total amount, useable toward a future class, or (3) send a substitute in your place. Please contact us at least 5 full working days before the class is scheduled to begin so we may process your request.

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Notes:

This class has three, two-hour sessions on three consecutive Thursday. Thursday, March 10, 2016 :: 1:30-3:30 p.m. :: Pacific Time Thursday, March 17, 2016 :: 1:30-3:30 p.m. :: Pacific Time Thursday, March 24, 2016 :: 1:30-3:30 p.m. :: Pacific Time This is an online course. All times shown above are California (Pacific) local time. Approximately one week before the course, paid students will receive an e-mail from Tech Transfer with instructions to register with our web-conferencing service also a downloadable .pdf course notebook. After completing this webinar registration, students will receive a second email with detailed webinar login instructions, including the link and phone number for the training. We may be adding a new online component using a Learning Management System (LMS) for this course. More details on this new component will be announced later in the fall.
Hours:6.00
CEUs:0.60

Fee Breakdown

CategoryDescriptionAmount
FeeCA Public Agency$ 145.00
Fee-AlternateStandard fee$ 290.00

Online

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Nazir Lalani

PE, President- Traffex Engineers Inc., Ventura, CA

Mr. Lalani is the President of a transportation consulting firm that offers a unique blend of transportation, local agency, technical training and expert witness services since 1996. After relocating to the U.S.A. from the UK where he was working for the Greater London Council, Nazir worked for Jefferson County and the City of Lakewood in Colorado, the City of Phoenix, Arizona, the Cities of Santa Rosa as well as Ventura and the Counties of Santa Barbara and Ventura, California. Nazir currently provides consulting services to local agencies ranging from the complete responsibilities of traffic engineering functions to specialized operations such as synchronized signal systems as well as studies designed to improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities. Until recently, he was the Contract City Traffic Engineer for the Cities of La Quinta, Ojai and Indian Wells in Southern California. He continues to proving consulting traffic engineering services to several local agencies including the City of Palm Desert and the City of Rancho Mirage. For the past 20 years, including at the present time, Nazir has been an instructor of collegiate courses concerning traffic and transportation engineering. He currently presents approximately 30 webinar per year on a variety of transportation and Traffic Engineering topics.

Date Day Time Location
03/10/2016Thursday1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Online
03/17/2016Thursday1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Online
03/24/2016Thursday1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Online

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