Explore our round-up of webinars and events coming up in October highlighting the latest road safety trends and best practices in planning and designing safe spaces for walking, biking, scooting, and rolling! Have a webinar you'd like us to share? Please submit your event here.
NHTSA: National Pedestrian Safety Month Kickoff!
Hosted by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
September 29, 2020 // View a recording of this event
Over the past decade, the number of pedestrian fatalities has increased. USDOT and our safety partners work year-round to reduce these deaths, educate all road users on pedestrian safety, and remind us that at one time or another — everyone is a pedestrian — especially now as more people are walking. In October, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Federal Highway Administration will increase traffic safety awareness for pedestrians and drivers.
Help Us Celebrate Achievement And Build Future: Future of the Walking Movement
Hosted by 20 Years Strong America Walks
September 29, 2020; 4:30pm PT // Registration
Amid a time of charged transition for the walking movement, America Walks as an organization is going through changes too. Kate Kraft—after five years as our outstanding Executive Director, eight years with the organization and a career of pioneering leadership in active living—is retiring. Mike McGinn, a longtime advocate for walkable communities and the former mayor of Seattle, has joined America Walks as our new Executive Director. America Walks will also raise funds through the party to support our work to help more communities become walkable and movable and to amplify the diverse voices of our movement calling for change and offering creative solutions
Rural Road Safety Awareness Week
Hosted by National Center for Rural Road Safety
September 28-October 2, 2020; Find More Information Here
As a rural safety advocate, the Rural Safety Center uses its voice to raise national awareness of rural safety, share and disseminate critical information, and build coalitions of changemakers. To further our impact, we are proud to announce the inaugural Rural Road Safety Awareness Week (RRSAW) to be held on September 28-October 2, 2020.
October is National Pedestrian Safety Month
Hosted by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
October, 2020; Find More Information Here
People across the nation have taken to heading outdoors as an easy and healthy way to get out of the house, which means there are more pedestrians out there. Whether it’s walking in a neighborhood or to a store, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian. This October, NHTSA is launching the first National Pedestrian Safety Month with the goal of increasing awareness about pedestrian safety, and reminding drivers and walkers that staying safe is a shared responsibility.
Community Change Grants Open
Hosted by 20 Years Strong America Walks
October 5th, 2020 // Find More Information Here
Economic and Business Outcomes of Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements
Hosted by Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)
October 6, 2020; 10-11AM PST// Register Here
Road Safety Fundamentals Webinar Series: Safety for All Road Users
Hosted by ITE Traffic Engineering Council
October 6, 2020; 11-12:30PM PST// Register Here
This webinar provides an introduction to explicit consideration of the safety of all road users. Content will include safety performance considerations concerning all road users including vehicular traffic, pedestrians, bicycles, motorcyclists, trucks, older road users, transit users, and micromobility devices. The webinar will also discuss the potential safety benefits of connected/automated vehicle (CAV) applications.
Webinar: Traffic Management Around Schools
Hosted by ITE Traffic Engineering Council
October 8, 2020; 11-12PM PST// Register Here
Satisfying the needs of all of the students, staff, and parents getting to and from schools by walking, biking, or car along with the overlapping community and commuter traffic has always been challenging. This webinar presents planning concepts, operational considerations, and safety factors that should be considered when examination traffic management in schools area.
U Drive. U Text. U Pay.
Hosted by Traffic Safety Marketing (TSM)
October 5-20, 2020 // Find More Information Here
This is a campaign centered on aiding law enforcement officers in their efforts to keep distracted drivers off the road. Distracted driving is a first offense in many States and continues to gain recognition across the nation as a deadly problem.
Confronting Power and Privilege in Transportation Planning for Healthy and Equitable Communities
Hosted by PBIC
October 13, 2020; 10-11:30 AM PT // Register Here
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), in partnership with many organizations, is delivering a webinar series aimed at exploring the integration of health in various transportation planning practices.
Kicking off the series will be a diverse group of planning and public health professionals who have issued a call to action for fundamentally shifting the way we plan, build, program, advocate, and legislate for transportation in our communities to prioritize health and quality of life for everyone. As a critical first step on the path to a healthier, more equitable transportation future, planning professionals must reflect on where we have fallen short, reimagine approaches to mobility that center equity and justice, and reconstruct systems that include and lift up communities who have been excluded and harmed. Learn how panelists answer this call in their work by building and shifting power in communities.
Where Do We Go from Here? A Critical Discussion on Road Safety & the Pandemic
Hosted by Vision Zero Network
October 14, 2020; 12-1:30 PM PT // Register Here
We all recognize that pandemic conditions are transforming life as we know it — in some short-term ways and some potentially long-range. Join the Vision Zero Network for a deep-dive discussion in this webinar with national transportation leaders recognizing the many challenges we face while trying to center safety, health and justice in our transportation work. Key questions will include: How do we deal with cuts in transit, public funding shortfall, and increased traffic fatality rates? How do we ensure that safety plans are not shelved nor political commitments weakened? How do we effectively position safe mobility as an urgent public health priority? And how do we build on some surprising, yet hopeful, advances made in safe mobility during this challenging time?
Health and transportation partnerships: agency structures for collaboration /HiAP
Hosted by PBIC
October 15, 2020; 12-1:30 PM PT // Register Here
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), in partnership with many organizations, is delivering a webinar series aimed at exploring the integration of health in various transportation planning practices. This webinar is Part 2.
A Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework encourages interagency collaboration on the shared goal of improving health outcomes. This webinar focuses on application of HiAP in transportation agency work, highlighting lessons learned, partnership models for forming interdisciplinary teams, structuring task forces, and how establishing mutual goals can bring diverse sets of stakeholders together to create access to healthier and more equitable transportation options.
UCLA Lake Arrowhead Series -- Not 'Back to Normal': Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19
Hosted by UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
October 19, 2020-Oct 30, 2020; 9:30-4 PM PST // Register Here
This year’s Not ‘Back to Normal’: Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19, a remote learning series presented by the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, will consider the transportation system before, during, and after COVID-19. COVID-19 has produced a profound shock to transportation systems already rife with inequities and inefficiencies. The intensity and speed with which COVID-19 spread through communities around the globe forced quick and often difficult adaptations by historically-rigid, slow-changing systems, casting numerous transportation challenges and inequities into sharp relief.
Traffic Safety Trailblazers: Lessons Learned from Norway and Sweden
Hosted by Colorado Local Technical Assistance Program
October 20, 2020; 9-10:30 AM PT // Register Here
Norway and Sweden consistently have the lowest traffic fatality rates in the world. Sweden has been a pioneer in developing zero-fatality programs, and its work provided inspiration for Minnesota’s Toward Zero Death program. In 2019, the city of Oslo, Norway, had one traffic fatality and zero pedestrian and bicycle fatalities. This webinar will share lessons learned from Norway and Sweden and help to inform continued work in Minnesota.
Community Engagement for Safe Routes to School Virtual Training
Hosted by Safe Routes Partnership
October 20, 2020; 10-11:30 AM PT // Registration
Join the Safe Routes Partnership for the first in this series of resources – a FREE virtual training on effective and authentic community engagement for Safe Routes to School. Led by Charles Taylor of Peyton Strategies, this training will cover best practices and innovative strategies for engaging a wide range of community members and stakeholders. The training will be interactive; come prepared to try out different techniques and think about using them in your own work.
Health and transportation partnerships: integrating health data into transportation planning
Hosted by PBIC
October 22, 2020; 9-10:30 AM PT // Register Here
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), in partnership with many organizations, is delivering a webinar series aimed at exploring the integration of health in various transportation planning practices. This webinar is Part 3.
Around the U.S., practitioners at state, regional, and local levels have been leading efforts to integrate health metrics in transportation planning to identify and measure health outcomes resulting from transportation projects. Panelists will share experiences in building partnerships, communicating across disciplines, and linking diverse data sources to gain a more complete understanding of the impacts of transportation projects on health outcomes.
Planning and prioritizing projects for health
Hosted by PBIC
October 27, 2020; 10-11:30 AM PT // Register Here
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), in partnership with many organizations, is delivering a webinar series aimed at exploring the integration of health in various transportation planning practices. This webinar is Part 4.
Transportation planning and project development present opportunities to use prioritization criteria that incorporate health considerations as well as increase collaboration between health and transportation agencies during the process. The 2020 update of Virginia's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan includes a systemic pedestrian safety analysis to identify priority corridors for improving pedestrian safety. VDOT collaborated with the state's Department of Public Health to incorporate measures from VDPH's Health Opportunities Index as a component of this analysis.
SRTS Activities: Adaptations and Insight during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hosted by California Department of Public Health
October 27, 2020; 10-11:30am; Register Here
This webinar will highlight relevant and timely new resources to help support the continuation of valuable, youth-focuse walking and bycycling education and encouragement programs in light of unprecedented challenges and distruptions to traditional school and school district operations this academic year. Two ATP-funded SRTS Projects will discuss how they have creatively pivoted.
Bringing public health to the transportation policy table
Hosted by PBIC
October 28, 2020; 10-11:30 AM PT // Register Here
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), in partnership with many organizations, is delivering a webinar series aimed at exploring the integration of health in various transportation planning practices. This webinar is Part 5.
Formal policies recognizing the need to connect health and transportation agencies can ensure that common visions, understanding, and resources needed for interagency collaboration are in place. This webinar focuses on multisolving and systems work at the policy level, highlighting efforts where public health helped engage the public and advocate to elected officials to advance active travel, equity, and other health outcomes.