DESIGNING STREETS FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
Schaumburg, Illinois, 2 Days,
Tuesday-Wednesday, June 3-4, 2008
REGISTRATION QUICK-LINK
Registration form for mail or fax (pdf)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This IDOT-sponsored workshop will address pedestrian safety issues through design and engineering solutions. Instructors will cover the significance of land-use, sidewalk and walkway design, signs, signals and crosswalks. Participants will also take part in a field exercise of a nearby intersection. There is no fee for attending this course, but space is limited. Local Agency personnel will be given priority when filling this class.
The course agenda includes the following:
- Planning factors, including land use, street connectivity, access management, and site design.
- Sidewalk design elements that affect safety, including basic sidewalk design, width, clearances, accessibility and the need for buffers.
- Street crossing principles and countermeasures
- Intersection geometry
- Freeway interchanges
- Signalized intersections
- Roundabouts
- Transit
- "Road diets," to reduce street width without compromising highway performance
- Field trip
- Problem solving and policy changes
- Prioritizing
Full Agenda (pdf)
WHY THIS CLASS IS IMPORTANT
The course will help provide project planning and design staff with the latest information about how to accommodate pedestrian traffic safely on our highways and streets. This information will be necessary to fully comply with requirements for context sensitive solutions, complete streets. The information will also help local communities participate better in initiatives to improve pedestrian safety, including funding opportunities.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Local agency personnel will be given priority for registration. A wide variety of subjects will be discussed in the course, including signal operations, highway geometrics, pedestrian facilities design and operations, signing, markings, and human factors, so this course will be useful to a wide variety of highway engineering and planning practitioners.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
DATE AND TIME:
Tuesday-Wednesday
June 3-4, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION:
Training Room B
IDOT District 1 Headquarters
201 West Center Court
Schaumburg, Illinois
REGISTRATION INCLUDES:
2 Days of training
Approximately 15 PDH Units
Field Exercise
FEE: This workshop is provided free of charge.
Registration Form for Fax and Mail
WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS AND SPONSORS
This workshop will be taught by Fred Ranck, P.E., P.T.O.E. and Peter Rusch, P.E. Mr. Ranck is with the Federal Highway Administration's Midwest Resource Center in Olympia Fields. Mr. Ranck is a member of FHWA MUTCD Team with responsibility for Parts 2 and 5. Prior to joining FHWA, he was the City Traffic Engineer for Naperville, the Manager of Highway Traffic Safety Department for the National Safety Council, and the County Traffic Engineer for DuPage County. Mr. Rusch is formerly also with the FHWA's Midwest Resource Center, and is the former State Traffic Engineer for the State of Wisconsin.
The workshop is sponsored and presented by the Illinois Department of Transportation.