Explore our round-up of webinars for the month of July 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 webinar details here.
July 10, 2020
Streamlining CEQA to Improve Transportation
SPUR
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT | Register
CEQA has mandated protocols to require mitigation of environmental impacts for development projects, but has inhibited the construction of transportation infrastructure at the same time. In the face of COVID-19, a new senate bill (SB288) aims to streamline the process of new transportation projects meant to lessen economic strain and create more equitable transportation systems as the economy reopens. Read more about SB 288 here. The discussion panel includes Senator Scott Wiener, who authored SB 288, as well as Bay Area and LA transit authorities.
July 15, 2020
Victim Blaming in Crash Reporting: What It Is and How to Stop It
Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT | Register
APBP is an organization of ped bike professionals working to create more walkable and bikeable places. They foster peer knowledge sharing, advance technical expertise, and support the professional development of their members. Their goals include leadership in advancing active and healthy communities. Find out more information on their site.
What Does COVID-19 Mean for Transportation and Mobility feat. Survey Data
UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT | Register
Researchers at UC Davis conducted a survey on how COVID-19 affected respondents' travel behavior, work activities, and household organization. There will a discussion providing highlights from the survey with 10,000 respondents. Other topics analyzed by the survey includes mode choice, vehicle purchase intentions, adoption of telecommuting, and delivery services. There will be a focus on implications for the climate and for communities.
July 22, 2020
The Human Trafficking Tie to Transportation
National Center for Rural Road Safety
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PT | Register
Human traffickers are using resources within the transportation sector to exploit victims for their profit. Transportation is also a way out for many survivors. This webinar will be exploring research-based data, survivor-informed messaging, practical ways to identify potential incidents, what to safely do with what you observe, and how to encourage others to join the fight to end modern day slavery. It is a topic not often discussed in transportation and the webinar will provide an understand of how human trafficking and transportation is related. The training webinar is directed to broad safety audience, including law enforcement, planners, transportation professionals, and elected officials among others. The presenters include Kristen Joyner (South West Transit Association) and Chief David Lorenzen (Iowa DOT Motor Vehicle Enforcement).
The Bay Area's Transit Survival Plan
SPUR
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT | Register
The sharp decline ridership caused by COVID-19 has drastically decreased revenue for public transit systems. This has forced operators to reduce the operation of their services. SPUR and AECOM convened transit agencies and advocated throughout the Bay Area to discuss recovery of the region's transit ecosystem. In this webinar, they will be sharing the results of the workshop. Some of the recommendations include amending the transit funding, legislation, and the existing transit network.
July 23, 2020
Value Capture Strategies: Special Assessment Districts
US DOT Federal Highway Administration
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT | Register
Learn from peer experts on opportunities and challenges of implementing Value Capture Special Assessment techniques that can help communities address decaying infrastructure and enhance safety to all mobilities. This webinar will be focusing on Special Assessment Districts, such as Community Improvement District, Sales Tax District, and more. Special Assessments can serve as gap funding for public road improvement projects. The technique can also be used as leverage for federal and state grants, attract private capital, and provide access to federal low interest rate loans.
Research and Innovation on Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon Operations and Safety in Arizona
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT | Register
The Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon (PHB) is a special pedestrian crossing device installed for crossing conditions where increased visibility and something more than a flasher is needed. The PHB was first included in the 2009 edition of the MUTCD, but some of the early applications in Arizona date back to 2000 on an experimental basis. Since Arizona was the first to install PHBs, the 20-year crash history for PHBs provides opportunity to evaluate their long-term safety effectiveness for pedestrians and other road users. This webinar will highlight the largest US based research study on the safety effectiveness of PHBs, conducted for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT).
July 28, 2020
Translating Dutch Cycling Ideas to an American Context
Dutch Cycling Embassy, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Office of Infrastructure and Water Management, the League of American Bicyclists, and the Federal Highway Administration
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PT | Register
Learn about the the key cycling principles practiced by the Dutch to create a landscape of bustling bike lanes and traffic-calmed streets. As many US cities reevaluate their use of curb space and streets, this webinar can provide a handful of techniques and lessons.
July 29, 2020
MPO and DOT Partnership for Complete Street Projects
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM PT | Register
Partnerships between agencies make a difference in delivering effective pedestrian safety projects. This webinar will be discussing the interagency partnership between Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the Florida Department of Transportation, in which a number of complete street projects have been implemented. The focus of the webinar will be on partnership in planning, designing, and implementing roadway projects.