| Dates: |
July 11-13, 2007 |
| Location: |
Caltrans District 11 Office
4050 Taylor Street, MS-240
San Diego, CA. 92110
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| Room Number: |
Garcia Room 1-125A/B |
| Training Time: |
July 11, 2007; 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
July 12, 2007; 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
July 13, 2007; 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
| Description: |
The Pedestrian Safety Workshop is a 3 - day workshop where the two very popular courses “Developing an Effective Pedestrian Safety Action Plan” and “Designing for Pedestrian Safety” have been combined. This is an opportunity to work with two well known pedestrian safety experts in a workshop in which participants will gain the knowledge to go back to their agencies and develop an effective pedestrian safety action plan; elements which include stakeholders, data collecting, data analyzing, funding, engineering countermeasures, education countermeasures, and enforcement countermeasures. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a prioritized list of things their agency will need to change to commit to pedestrian safety and to reduce pedestrian crashes, which in turn will make our community a safer and more pleasant place to walk. There will be a couple walking site visits to help participants understand and identify obstacles to walking and will provide participants an opportunity to apply what they’ve learned from the workshop. Finally, participants recommend agency-wide policy changes that are needed to improve pedestrian safety.
Funded by the Federal Highway Administration. |
Agenda
The workshop starts promptly at 8:00 and ends at 4:30. Attendees should arrive by 7:45.
There will be frequent opportunities for discussion. |
Day 1 - July 11, 2007 |
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Introductions, Purpose of Course |
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| Planning and Designing for Pedestrian Safety: The Big Picture |
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Exercise: Appendix I. Checklist for pedestrian safety action plan elements |
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Goals and Objectives |
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Break |
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| Involving Stakeholders |
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Exercise: Stakeholders |
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| Data Collection and Analysis: |
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Collecting data to identify pedestrian safety problems |
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Analyzing information and prioritizing concerns |
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Exercise: Data Collection |
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Exercise: Analyzing information and Prioritizing Concerns |
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Prepare for Field Trip (planning focus) |
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Field Trip |
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Exercise: Problem Solving and Solutions Report |
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Education Strategies |
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Enforcement Strategies |
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Exercise: Education and Enforcement Strategies |
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Adjourn |
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Day 2 - July 12, 2007 |
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| Providing Funding |
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Exercise: Providing Funding |
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Discussion of Developing Pedestrian Safety Action Plans |
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| Sidewalk Design Elements that Impact Pedestrian Safety (Module 02) |
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Basic sidewalk design: width, clearances, accessibility, the need for buffers |
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Driveways & alleys: maintaining sidewalk continuity |
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Exercise: Applying Pedestrian Safety |
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| Street Crossings |
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Principals of human behavior; the need to provide safe, frequent and convenient crossings; midblock vs. intersection crossing safety |
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Crosswalks: justification, where they’re applicable; crosswalk markings & signing; advance stop bars to reduce multiple threat crashes |
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Illumination: Essential to reduce nighttime crashes |
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Medians & islands: breaking long crossing into 2 steps |
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Pedestrian signals: meeting warrants, providing a hot response; innovative techniques |
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Grade-separation: why it fails, where it’s applicable, how to make it succeed |
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Exercise: Pedestrian Crossings |
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| Intersection Geometry |
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Geometric concerns: intersection size; choosing the right size radius; complex and skewed intersections |
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Curb extensions: reducing crossing distance |
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Crosswalk placement: how to place crosswalks where they’ll be used |
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Islands; right turn slip lane design |
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Exercise: Pedestrian Crossings |
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| Intersection Signalization |
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The purpose of signals; their effect on pedestrian safety; meeting warrants |
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Push-button & ped head placement |
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Signal display and timing techniques: pedestrian signal timing; countdown pedestrian signals; Leading Pedestrian Interval (LPI); restricting turn movements; leading vs. lagging ped phase; all ped scramble; ITS applications |
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Exercise: Rural Signalized Intersection Improvement |
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Adjourn |
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Day 3 - July 13, 2007 |
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Interchanges |
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Roundabouts |
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| Transit |
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Bus stop design; location of bus stops & pedestrian crossing safety |
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| Road Diets |
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Reducing street width enhances pedestrian safety without compromising capacity |
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Prepare for field trip |
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Field trip |
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Exercise: Problem solving/brainstorming policy changes |
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Exercise: Solutions and policy reports |
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Exercise: Selecting high priority policy changes |
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Next Steps: Creating the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan |
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Adjourn |