Training Courses for Pedestrian Safety
What pedestrian safety training courses are available?
Several training courses are available to provide technical assistance to professionals and community members in developing pedestrian safety action plans and in improving conditions for walking. These include:
- Developing a pedestrian safety action plan (two-day course)
- Designing for pedestrian safety (two-day course)
- Planning and designing for pedestrian safety (three-day course)
- Creating great communities through public involvement (one-day course)
Learn more about these courses by viewing the course descriptions, materials for hosts and instructors, and more. To read an evaluation of the training courses, view the progress report, Developing and Implementing a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan.
What is a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan?
A Pedestrian Safety Action Plan is used to guide the improvement of pedestrian safety through street redesign and the use of engineering countermeasures, planning and policy changes, as well as other safety-related treatments and programs that involve the whole community. The development of a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan typically involves:
- Defining pedestrian safety goals and objectives
- Analyzing baseline conditions and identifying locations for improving safety
- Selecting appropriate treatments and developing an implementation strategy
- Institutionalizing changes to planning and design standards
- Considering land use, zoning and site design issues
- Reinforcing commitment to pedestrian safety and evaluating results
Through contract with the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Safety and Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB), the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) has developed a guide, How to Develop a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, to be used by transportation professionals who have the responsibility of improving pedestrian safety at the state or local level. The guide is intended to help state and local officials know where to begin to address pedestrian safety issues and to assist agencies in further enhancing their existing pedestrian safety programs and activities. It can be used in conjunction with the training courses listed above.
What are the outcomes of developing and implementing a PSAP?
Pedestrian Safety Action Plans can:
- Guide future planning and land use as it relates to pedestrians
- Encourage smarter engineering and design of pedestrian facilities
- Target specific locations in need of safety enhancements
- Lead to needed policy changes
