Explore our round-up of webinars and events coming up highlighting the latest road safety trends and best practices in planning and designing safe spaces for walking, biking, scooting, and rolling! Have an event you'd like us to share? Please submit your event here.
Webinar: Changing Transportation Behavior: What Really Works?
Host: Active Transportation Resource Center
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 | 10am - 11:30am PT |
In this webinar with Jessica Roberts, Principal, Alta Planning + Design, you will learn about major behavior change theories, the role of incentives in program design, and creative ways to test if your program is working. By the end of this webinar, you'll have new practical ideas you can put to work in your own active transportation campaigns and programs.
Webinar: Using Data Fusion & Visual Analytics to Move to Zero
Host: Vision Zero Network
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 10am-11am PT |
Join this webinar to explore technologies and techniques to help local and state agencies improve roadway safety. You'll learn about Hexagon's comprehensive safety solutions, as well as on-the-ground experience from users improving their safety analysis, visualization and reporting. Find out how the South Carolina Department of Transportation is modernizing its data fusion processes and improving safety management workflow.
Webinar: Storytelling for Active Transportation Advocates
Host: America Walks
Wednesday, March 17, 2021|11am-12pm PT |
How can we reach more people and convince them of the benefits of inclusive and accessible walkable communities? We have incredible data on how they improve health, the climate, the economy, and our quality of life – but data alone often doesn’t carry the day.
In this webinar, a panel of creative and experienced communicators will share their ideas about how to cut through the clutter and move people to action. Tom Flood, bringing car advertising experience to street safety, Marian Huhman to present focus group results on language that works, and Jorge Canez (Peatonito) creative earned media expert and filmmaker.
Moderated by our Executive Director, Mike McGinn – advocate, campaigner, and former elected official. Join America Walks for presentations and conversations about tapping into the emotional core of successful advocacy.
Webinar: ActiveTO: The City of Toronto's COVID-19 Response - 26 Kilometers of Rapid Installed Bikeways
Host: APBP
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 |12pm - 1pm PT |
The City of Toronto's COVID-19 response programs, including ActiveTO, have been focused on making sure people have space to get around while respecting physical distancing. Each response program was developed through a review process using the City's Equity Lens Tool and demonstrating a strong commitment to reducing inequities experienced by Toronto's vulnerable populations.
Webinar: Community Engagement and Safer Streets
Host: Road to Zero Coalition
Thursday, March 18, 2021 |11am - 12pm PT |
This session will build on the discussions that the Road to Zero Coalition started with its Equity in Transportation Safety series. This discussion will focus on the role and importance of community engagement on our path to reducing traffic fatalities. Attendees will hear from planners and advocates who have worked to expand the voices at the transportation table and explore the need for community engagement in our work.
Webinar: Evaluation of a Transportation Incentive Program for Affordable Housing Residents
Host: Portland State University, TREC
Friday, March 19, 2021 |1130am - 1230pm PT |
This seminar presents the results from the Transportation Wallet for Residents of Affordable Housing (TWRAH) pilot program launched by the City of Portland’s Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). The program provided a set of transportation incentives for low-income participants, including a $308 pre-paid visa card which could be applied to public transit or other transportation services, a free bike share membership, and access to discounted rates on several services. The researchers conducted a survey with the program’s participants to understand how they used the Transportation Wallet and how the program helped them use different modes to get around.
Webinar: Epi Fellowship Projects: A Look at Tribal Motor Vehicle Crash Data
Host: Tribal Injury Prevention Resource Center
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | 11am - 12pm PT |
In Indian Country, Tribal MVC is a big topic that often leaves us with several roadblocks for data access or use, which makes our injury prevention planning a little unique and timely. The TIPRC is teaming up with two fellows from the 2019-2020 Indian Health Service Injury Prevention Epidemiology Fellowship; to showcase their Epi research projects. In this webinar, the presenters will provide an overview of their research on Tribal MVC data and will discuss some interesting challenges and findings for data access and use.
Conference: Innovative Intersections and Streets
Host: Institute of Transportation Engineer (ITE)
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - Wednesday, March 24, 2021 |
An online technical conference focused on new and innovative solutions to transportation challenges being implemented in communities in the United States and around the world. This two-day event will feature 10 technical sessions developed by ITE’s Councils and Committees along with a plenary session and engaging networking activities.
Webinar: Forum on the MUTCD
Host: APBP
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 12pm - 1pm PT |
As a follow up to the March 10 webinar Information and Education on the MUTCD, APBP will host a facilitated forum on the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) recommendations currently open for comment with a May 14 deadline. We will share the areas APBP will be addressing in our comments and learn from attendees what concerns or questions they have.
Webinar: From Practice to Progress - Street Story in the Field
Host: UC Berkeley SafeTREC
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 10am - 11am PT |
Join UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks for our first Focus Cities webinar of 2021! We will be talking with presenters from the Altadena Town Council, Bike Bakersfield, and WALKSacramento about how they use Street Story, a community engagement tool that allows residents to share where they’ve been in a crash or near miss, or where they feel safe or unsafe traveling. In this webinar, learn how local governments and community organizations have been using Street Story prior to and during the pandemic period to support their transportation safety advocacy, community engagement, and planning efforts.
Webinar: Introducing Vision Zero Road Safety to Local Fleets
Host: Vision Zero Network
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 10am - 11am PT |
Professional drivers can be powerful forces in achieving Vision Zero. Vision Zero requires the commitment of all parts of society and achieving it — eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries — depends on full participation. Fleets are a direct connection between Vision Zero and the business community, and fleet operations are a tangible way to get the private sector involved. The best fleet leaders create safety cultures, continuous improvement is part of everyone’s shift and data is an objective management tool to support professional drivers and managers.
In this webinar, the Vision Zero Network, Together for Safer Roads and fleet leaders will introduce core Vision Zero concepts and talk about how to go from intention to prevention. Professional fleet safety managers Republic Services and smaller fleets will talk about how to build safety cultures that support their workers and the communities they serve. They’ll also talk about how they use technology and data as an objective management tool to continuously improve safety. Bring your questions and ideas for our speakers and register for the webinar.
Webinar: Form and Function: The Role and Future of Complete Streets Post-COVID
Host: Eno Center for Transportation
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 11am - 11:45am PT |
“Complete streets” is a design approach intended to accommodate a variety of modes of transportation and has been shown to reduce motor vehicle-related crashes, minimize risks for pedestrians and cyclists, and promote active modes of travel. In response to COVID-19, many cities have adopted some complete streets approaches, including reconfigured public roads for better social distancing, permits for curbside pickup, and allowed local businesses to operate on sidewalks, parking spaces, and roadways.
With a pandemic recovery on the horizon, will cities continue these complete streets initiatives? What is the role of advocacy, policy, and data in better understanding complete streets and their effects on the broader transportation system? This webinar will discuss the impacts of the pandemic on-street use, the importance of equity in planning and design, and what might be next for complete streets in the wake of COVID-19 and a new administration.