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Training That Comes To You!

Good Roads helps build better communities and sets its members up to succeed with training that comes to your municipality.

Good Roads Contract Courses bring training to your team at your location. Pick from our coveted courses below and click the start button on helping your teams win at their jobs.
– Winter Maintenance Operations Training
– Local Group Equipment Operator Training
– Managing Your Road Network
– Municipal Infrastructure Training
– Guelph Road School
– Leadership, Supervision and Administration

For more information:
Cherry Sales
Lead, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
cherry@goodroads.ca

Reduced Load Period Model Overview Training

This is a quick course that will take less than 60 minutes of your time to complete before using the RLP model forms.

MTO (The Ontario Ministry of Transportation) and Good Roads are partnering to work together to encourage Good Roads member municipalities/First Nations to support and adopt MTO’s RLP Onset and Removal Model supported by data from its Road Weather Information System (RWIS).

MTO’s system allows municipalities to access frost depth, moisture, and temperature data by adopting the RLP Onset and Removal Model. The model will allow municipalities to optimize the timing of RLPs, including shortening the duration when conditions permit, which will help support the agriculture, agri-business and trucking industry, while protecting road infrastructure.

Please note, access to the course may take up to 24 hours following registration.

This is ideal for: Public Works Directors, Road Supervisors, Directors, Transportation, and County Engineers

Roundabouts: From Idea to Implementation

Workshop Content:

Planning and Feasibility

  • Policy Issues
  • Roundabout screening
  • Intersection control
  • Accessibility issues
  • Planning Guidance
  • Feasibility problems
  • Feasibility clinic and case studies
  • Questions and discussion

Preliminary Design

  • Capacity and safety theory
  • Design guidance
  • Design principles
  • Design checks
  • Cost sharing, utilities, property requirements
  • Design problems
  • Questions and discussion

Implementation

  • Detailed design
  • Designing for expansion
  • Designing for maintenance and service vehicles
  • Construction staging
  • Landscaping and illumination
  • Pavement markings and signs
  • Educating the public
  • Questions and discussion

Note: Participants are encouraged to bring a roundabout proposal review.

Who Should Attend:

Municipal and Consulting Engineers, technicians and technologists, planners, and project managers.