COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course provides a comprehensive presentation of low-cost, ready-to-use improvements that enhance the safety of highways. The course covers a synthesis of countermeasures and their associated crash reduction factors as identified in the "AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan -- NCHRP 500 Guidebooks." Countermeasures for specific areas of highway safety, including roadside hazards; signing, markings, and lighting; traffic control devices; intersections; traffic signals; and railroad grade crossings are discussed. The course also introduces recent low-cost safety improvements that have been developed by States and local engineers. Through exercises, participants learn how to analyze highway safety situations and apply appropriate countermeasures to those situations.

OUTCOMES:

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify appropriate engineering countermeasures from crash patterns
• Recognize deficiencies in operation/design and select appropriate countermeasures for roadside hazards
• Recognize deficiencies in safety performance of signing, markings, and lighting, and elect appropriate countermeasures
• Recognize deficiencies in operation/design of intersections and select appropriate countermeasures
• Recognize deficiencies in operation/design of traffic signals and select appropriate countermeasures
• Recognize deficiencies in operation/design of railroad grade crossings and select appropriate countermeasures
• Illustrate new and innovative low-cost safety improvement measures developed by State DOTs

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Federal, State, and local transportation, traffic and safety engineers, and planners involved in reducing crashes.

If you have questions about this NHI training, please contact NHI at nhicustomerservice@dot.gov or 877.558.6873.