The National Complete Streets Coalition is now accepting applications for the Safe Streets Academy, a new program designed to help jurisdictions transform their commitment to traffic safety into practice.
The year-long academy will bring together engineers, planners, and related professionals from three jurisdictions. The academy will include three in-person workshops, one in each of the recipient jurisdictions, with additional distance-learning sessions between trainings to ensure steady progress. All members of the Academy will receive travel stipends to attend trainings. Overall, the academy will focus on:
- Engineering countermeasures to reduce speed and improve safety
- Integrating land use and transportation
- Community engagement strategies
- Planning and designing for active transportation and transit
- Performance measurement
- Freight logistics
- Traffic operations
- Designing and operating for Vision Zero
- Creative placemaking
Each jurisdiction selected for this technical assistance opportunity will choose a cohort of 10 practitioners to join the academy, all of whom will participate in each in-person and distance-learning session. Each cohort will also implement a demonstration project and present safety recommendations to their DOT and community. This opportunity is available at no cost to jurisdictions thanks to a Safe Systems Innovation Grant from the Road to Zero Coalition.
Applications may be submitted until Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT. For more information, visit Smart Growth America's website.