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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

Signs & Lines – Online (Semester 1)

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Course Completion Deadline

This is a Semester 1 course, it must be completed by April 30th, 2024. Failure to complete the course by this date will result in the loss of all course progress and may be subject to additional re-registration fees.

Course Schedule

This is a self-paced online course. Participants will work through each module individually at their own speed. You will have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week so you can learn when and where you want.

The course, activities, and tests take approx. 20 hrs to complete. You will have access to the course until the end of April.

Lesson content is presented as text and videos. There are also interactive activities. There is no interaction with a live instructor. You can contact the instructors by email if you have any questions.

Participants will receive an enrollment email within 48 hrs of registering. Please check your junk mail if you do not see it. If this is your first online course with good roads, you will also get a new user email. Please use the link in the new user email to set your password.

Note: Online courses take place on our education website not our main website. The websites do not share the same usernames and passwords.

Course Description

Offers practical experience in using Ontario Traffic Manuals 5, 6 & 11. You will learn, through participation in group activities how signs and lines assist drivers as they travel from their point of origin to their destination. You will return to your municipality with an understanding of how these manuals work together plus a list of best practices to help minimize risk and defend the municipality in an insurance claim.

Course Content

Principles of Positive Guidance
Influencing driver safety
Sign manufacturing & Three Speed Triangle
Best practices for ordering road signs
MMS Requirements for Signs
Retroreflectivity & Reflective Sheeting
Sign Management Program
Regulatory Signs (OTM 5)
Warning Signs (OTM 6)
Pavement, Hazard and Delineation Markings (OTM 11)
Collision investigations

Who Should Attend?

Decision makers and individuals responsible for the selection and placement of regulatory signs, warning signs, and the pavement, hazard and delineation markings.

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.

Introduction to Trenchless Technology

Introduction
Trenchless technologies include methods and tools for underground pipelines and utilities’ new installation, replacement, rehabilitation, locating, and condition assessment with minimum excavation from the surface. This course will present state-of-the-art trenchless methods and techniques to install, replace, and rehabilitate aging pipelines and utility ducts efficiently and cost-effectively. Topics include trenchless project feasibility analysis and planning; topographic and geotechnical considerations; selecting appropriate trenchless technology, pipe materials, and lining materials; risk analysis; and quality assurance and quality control. Furthermore, pipeline condition assessment techniques will be presented. Finally, the industry’s good practice guidelines, standards and specifications will be discussed.

Why Trenchless Technologies?

Financial Benefits (Cost Savings)

The City of Winnipeg saved over $130 million using CIPP (cured-in-place-pipe) on 145 km of sewer renovation. Another 433 km of pipeline needs rehabilitation with potential cost savings of $390 million
The City of Hamilton has renewed more than 320 km of mainline sewer using CIPP technology and has realized cost avoidances of approximately $200 million

Environmental Benefits

Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
Lesser disruption to built and natural environment (50:1 earthwork factor when comparing open trench and trenchless construction)
Suited for deeper installations, environmentally sensitive areas, contaminated underground

Social Benefits

Minimal disruption to traffic and businesses

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Demonstrate a broader understanding of the vast array of trenchless methods, processes, and techniques to rehabilitate and replace underground pipelines and utility ducts
Describe the limitations and benefits of various trenchless technologies
Become familiar with the industry’s best practice guidelines, standards, and specifications
Select appropriate rehabilitation and replacement techniques based on factors such as pipeline condition, failure modes, surface and underground conditions, and cost
Take advanced courses on trenchless technologies for detailed information on planning, design and construction fundamentals

Course Syllabus

Introduction
- An Overview of Trenchless Technology
- Classification Systems for Trenchless Methods
- Trenchless Construction vs. Open Trench Construction Methods
- Trenchless Rehabilitation Technology Market Overview: Assessments, Classifications, and Rehabilitation Methods
Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
- ASCE Process for Investigating and Documenting Existing Utilities
- Four SUE Quality Levels
- CSA S250 Standard for Mapping of Underground Utilities
- How Does SUE Helps Reduce Project Risk and Optimize Cost?
- Case Studies
Trenchless Methods for New Pipe Installation
- Horizontal Directional Drilling
- Pipe Jacking and Microtunnelling
- Pipe Bursting
- Pipe Ramming, Auger Boring, and Impact Moling
- Trenchless Method Selection Process for New Pipe Installations
Pipeline Condition Assessment
- Gravity Pipeline Condition Assessment Technology
- Maintenance Chamber and Sewer Lateral Assessments
- Pressure Pipeline Condition Assessment Technology
Pipeline Condition Classification and Condition Rating Systems
- Watermain Condition Classification System and Condition Rating
- Sewer Condition Classification System (PACP)
- Lateral Sewer Pipe Condition Classification (LACP)
- Rationalization of Sewer Rehabilitation Decision Making
Maintenance Chambers Condition Assessment and Rehabilitation
- Maintenance Chamber Classification (MACP)
- Overview of Maintenance Chamber Rehabilitation
Trenchless Methods for Pipe Rehabilitation
- Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) for Gravity and Pressure Pipeline
- CIPP for Sewer Lateral
- Spot Repair, Stabilization
- Sliplining, Segmental GRP Lining
- Modified Sliplining (Thermoform, Spiral Wound)
- Spray-in-Place-Pipe (SIPP)
- Rationalization of Gravity and Pressure Pipe Rehabilitation

Who Should Attend?
Consultants, Contractors, Utility Owners, Municipal Engineers and Technologists

What Will You Get?
•   Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Professional Development Hours
•   Course handouts
•   Lunch and refreshments

Good Roads Conference

At Good Roads, we understand the importance of gathering in one place to spark ideas and debate about important issues. It is what the Good Roads Annual Conference has set out to do since 1894. Whether you are interested in road stewardship, the impact of climate change, infrastructure financing, improving risk management or recruiting talent, the 2024 Good Roads Conference is your one-stop shop for the ideas that will shape municipal fortunes in the coming year.

Join your peers at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel where you will have the opportunity to hear from industry leaders on topics of importance to Ontario’s municipal transportation and infrastructure sector. Walk the Good Roads Tradeshow to hear about innovative solutions and the latest technology. Meet with provincial ministries on issues important to your community.

Don’t be left out of four exciting days of keynotes, workshops, study tours, and a tradeshow.

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