Toward Zero Incidents and Fatalities—A Practitioner’s Guide to the Highway Safety Manual Seminar

Date: Sunday, August 8 Time: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Location: Hyatt Vancouver Credits: 7 PDH/0.7 IACET CEU Registration fee: $250

Course Description
The forthcoming Highway Safety Manual (HSM) has been developed to be the definitive document for highway safety analysis. It provides science-based quantitative information for integrating safety into project analyses. Applying tools from the manual will support the transportation professional to quantitatively estimate the number of crashes or potential number of crashes associated with a particular condition or treatment. Users will find that each part of the manual provides new tools and concepts for integrating quantitative safety analysis into different transportation planning, design, operations and maintenance projects. The document will be published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in May 2010 and includes four major parts:

• Human Factors and Fundamentals
• Roadway Safety Management Process
• Predictive Methods
• Accident Modification Factors

The instruction of the course will place emphasis on the application techniques for local traffic engineering/transportation professionals and will include example HSM applications and case studies. The content will provide participants with a fundamental understanding of how HSM can be used to better evaluate, plan and program for safety improvements by integrating safety into all project development phases.

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the course participants will be able to:

• Recall and be familiar with the specific structure and content of HSM;
• Determine how and when to apply methods included in HSM; and
• Use and experience the hands-on examples of many of the analytical procedures contained within HSM.

Target audience
State, provincial, local government and private sector transportation professionals involved in any transportation and highway projects including designers, planners, traffic engineers and managers.

Instructors
Elizabeth A. Wemple, Associate Engineer, Kittelson & Associates, Inc., Portland, OR, USA; John R. Freeman Jr., Senior Principal, Kittelson & Associates, Inc., Orlando, FL, USA, Brian Malone, Vice President, CIMA+, Burlington, ON, Canada and Jeffrey B. Shaw, Safety/Design Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, Matteson, IL, USA.

The new HSM is available for presale. Use discount code FRSHIP at checkout (www.ite.org/bookstore) to receive free shipping on domestic orders prior to July 1st. Ships in June. ITE and the ITE Educational Foundation have been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 2212.