Credits: Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
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.
Managing Winter Operations Workshop
Be prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws at your municipality this winter season with this one-day intensive workshop.
Managing Operations is designed for winter road maintenance professionals, from managers, supervisors to operators and transportation professionals.
Hear from experts in the field covering a wide variety of winter road maintenance issues from communicating your message, technology, MMS, safety, legal obligations, salt management, hiring and retaining talent to dealing with operator harassment.
This one-day workshop includes an exhibitor hall and networking time to discuss winter road issues with fellow industry experts.
Join like-minded individuals all under one roof discussing best practices and new ideas in protecting yourself, your team, and your municipality during the winter road clearing season.
Road Safety Audit Course – Kingston
Course Description
A road safety audit is a formal examination of a future road or traffic project, or an existing road or road-related area, in which a team of appropriately qualified persons identifies deficiencies with the potential to cause crashes in the project. A road safety audit is not simply a compliance check against design standards or other technical guidance. Strict adherence to design standards does not guarantee safety since standards are not always written with safety as a primary objective. A Road Safety Audit considers the safety of all users to proactively identify issues that may cause harm to users and makes recommendations to remove or mitigate these issues.
This three-day training program will teach practitioners how to conduct a Road Safety Audit in accordance with the 2023 Good Roads Road Safety Audit Guidelines.
This course is relevant to individuals who wish to become a Road Safety Auditor or those required to manage the Road Safety Audit process and its outcomes. Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be eligible to register as a Road Safety Auditor in Ontario.
Course Content
- What are Road Safety Audits and why we do them?
- Stages of a Road Safety Audit
- Design stage Road Safety Audits
- Auditing for Pedestrians, Cyclists & Motorcyclists
- Road Safety Auditor Accreditation and Registration
- Preparation and presentation of Road Safety Audit report
- Road Safety Audits within the Safe System
The interactive Workshop is a combination of theory, practical exercises, and fieldwork.
Who Should Attend
- Provincial and local government personnel
- Engineers, planners, designers, traffic managers
- Consultants wishing to undertake road safety audits
- Road safety practitioners
Listen to instructor Kenn Beer as he discusses Road Safety Audits with Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast: https://youtu.be/QO6U4m56zjg
Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast speak to instructors Kenn Beer and Max McCardel as they complete the Road Safety Audit Course: https://youtu.be/GzRS6QpEygU?si=EyD50cv7-sMWP-OR
Information about the Road Safety Audit course: https://youtu.be/c2vefQ35ZN0?si=C2-FtxjwjEPrLBJm
Meals
A light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments are included in the registration fee.
Road Safety Audit Course – Guelph
Course Description
A road safety audit is a formal examination of a future road or traffic project, or an existing road or road-related area, in which a team of appropriately qualified persons identifies deficiencies with the potential to cause crashes in the project. A road safety audit is not simply a compliance check against design standards or other technical guidance. Strict adherence to design standards does not guarantee safety since standards are not always written with safety as a primary objective. A Road Safety Audit considers the safety of all users to proactively identify issues that may cause harm to users and makes recommendations to remove or mitigate these issues.
This three-day training program will teach practitioners how to conduct a Road Safety Audit in accordance with the 2023 Good Roads Road Safety Audit Guidelines.
This course is relevant to individuals who wish to become a Road Safety Auditor or those required to manage the Road Safety Audit process and its outcomes. Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be eligible to register as a Road Safety Auditor in Ontario.
Course Content
- What are Road Safety Audits and why we do them?
- Stages of a Road Safety Audit
- Design stage Road Safety Audits
- Auditing for Pedestrians, Cyclists & Motorcyclists
- Road Safety Auditor Accreditation and Registration
- Preparation and presentation of Road Safety Audit report
- Road Safety Audits within the Safe System
The interactive Workshop is a combination of theory, practical exercises, and fieldwork.
Who Should Attend
- Provincial and local government personnel
- Engineers, planners, designers, traffic managers
- Consultants wishing to undertake road safety audits
- Road safety practitioners
Listen to instructor Kenn Beer as he discusses Road Safety Audits with Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast: https://youtu.be/QO6U4m56zjg
Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast speak to instructors Kenn Beer and Max McCardel as they complete the Road Safety Audit Course: https://youtu.be/GzRS6QpEygU?si=EyD50cv7-sMWP-OR
Information about the Road Safety Audit course: https://youtu.be/c2vefQ35ZN0?si=C2-FtxjwjEPrLBJm
Municipal Liability: Traffic Collisions
Course Description
The course provides an in-depth understanding of municipalities’ exposure to liability due to their legal obligation to provide safe road facilities to the public, and how to avoid that costly exposure. The course explains the legal principle of “joint and several liability” in Canadian courts, and practical steps that municipalities can take to fulfill their legal obligations through proper design, inspection, maintenance, and documentation of road facilities. Several real-life examples will be discussed to explain how municipalities were found legally liable.
Course Content
- Liability in designing roadways and Intersections
- Liability in implementing traffic control devices
- Liability in planning and designing road facilities dedicated to vulnerable road users
- Liability in designing roadway/intersection lighting
- Liability in routine road patrol and maintenance
- Liability in winter patrol and maintenance
- The importance of conducting routine traffic safety studies
- Municipal liability in Ontario’s civil court system
- The benefits of using emerging technologies
- Identifying and documenting design/maintenance flaws
- Practical methods to address design/maintenance flaws
- Understanding experts’ perspectives when analyzing cases related to municipal liability
- Several case studies
Who Should Attend?
The primary target audience of this course is transportation professionals and risk managers
involved with road design, inspection, and maintenance. Participants do not need to have formal engineering education. Examples of municipal positions that would be interested in taking the course include:
- Transportation manager.
- Transportation planning manager.
- Transportation operations supervisor.
- Transportation engineer.
- Transportation planner.
- Transportation technician.
- Transportation technologist.
- Traffic technician.
- Road superintendent.
- Any position involved with traffic/road safety.
- Any managerial position involved with public works, transportation services, risk management, or design and construction.
Prerequisites
Course participants are encouraged to make themselves familiar with the level-of-service standards adopted by their respective municipalities regarding the design, inspection, and maintenance of road facilities.
Course participants are also required to bring an Internet-connected device (tablet, laptop, or smartphone) to participate in course polls using the Slido app. The polls can be accessed through the Slido app or a browser – no registration required.
Evaluation Process
Your grade will be calculated as follows:
- In-class Course Project: 50%
- Final online test (20 multiple-choice questions): 50%
A final grade of 60% is required to pass the course.
Participants will receive a certificate of completion upon passing the course.
Learn more about Traffic Collision liability as the instructors of this course joined the Good Roads Podcast to discuss liability in traffic collisions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttSZ6OCQipY
