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Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Gain a deeper understanding of Vision Zero principles, policy innovation, and processes that influence traffic safety implementation.
• Acquire technical knowledge on how safer planning and design of mobility systems can lead to systematic safety improvements.
• Develop a holistic approach to safety delivery, including work programs, change governance processes, and the allocation of funding towards continuous improvements.
• Conduct systematic safety analysis, evaluation, and decision-making to enhance traffic safety outcomes.
• Implement vision governance, management, and sustainable practices to ensure long-term success in traffic safety initiatives.

Description
Explore the methods and best practices of Vision Zero traffic safety, a crucial framework for planners, engineers, consultants, and researchers. Vision Zero aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries while promoting safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all. Implementing Vision Zero principles addresses the root causes of traffic incidents, fosters a culture of safety, and drives life-saving systematic changes. By adopting these strategies, communities can significantly improve road safety, reduce the societal costs of traffic accidents, and create safer environments for all road users.

Participants will learn the fundamentals of traffic safety and the Vision Zero approach, techniques for systematic safety analysis, evaluation, and decision-making to enhance traffic safety outcomes, and best practices for planning and designing safer mobility systems. Additionally, the course covers strategies for effective governance, management, and sustainable implementation of traffic safety initiatives, as well as how to develop and manage work programs, change governance processes, and allocate funding toward continuous improvements.

By the end of the course, you'll be equipped with the cutting-edge knowledge and practical tools needed to drive transformative changes in traffic safety. Whether you are a government official, industry leader, urban planner, or community advocate, this course will empower you to make a lasting impact in your community and beyond. Join us and become a pioneer in the Vision Zero movement, leading the charge to create safer streets for everyone.

Who Should Attend
Ideal for a diverse group of professionals, this course benefits government authorities, politicians, road system decision-makers, industry leaders, and municipal representatives. Municipal engineers, urban planners, traffic safety consultants, and public health officials will gain valuable insights.

Supervisors, managers, and construction managers can enhance their project oversight capabilities. Educators and students interested in traffic safety and urban planning are encouraged to participate to broaden their knowledge.

Additionally, transportation policymakers, infrastructure developers, and safety advocates are invited to further their expertise in Vision Zero initiatives.

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Syllabus

Day 1: Introduction and Fundamentals

• Roaf traffic status around the world
• Fundamental principles of vision
• System approach to traffic safety
• Normative vs. Substantiable safety, fundamental of safety, health and benefits assessment
• Historical perspective and background of Vision Zero approach
• Global awareness and changing approach to traffic safety
• Crash cost, user behaviour and risk approaches
• Traditional vs innovative safety countermeasures

Day 2: Systematic Safety Analysis, Evaluation and Decision-Making

• Highlights of safety approach from relevant guidelines and best practices (NACTO, ITE, HSM etc.)
• Urban safety approaches
• Rural safety approaches
• Highway safety approaches
• Intersection safety approaches
• Active mobility safety approaches
• Safety in road maintenance and operations
• General safety techniques: Before-and-after studies, Black spot analysis.
• Traffic safety audits and inspections.
• Example of crash studies and risk analysis.

Day 3: Vision Governance, Management and Sustainable Implementation

• Implementation and innovative practices of decision-making
• Methods for properly utilizing risk evaluation and detailed planning of the mobility system.
• Risk management in public agencies and other transportation agencies.
• Traffic safety management and governance by vision zero
• Sustainable and const-sensitive approaches
• The future of traffic safety in multimodal mobility and technology changes

Instructor

Dewan Karim, M.A.Sc., MITE, P.Eng., PTOE

Educated at the University of Tokyo, Japan, Dewan spent more than sixteen years of his career in mobility master planning, smart innovation in urban innovation, shared mobility and transit planning projects in both Japan and Canada. Recently, he developed a new innovative mobility ecosystem master planning concept combining new mobility systems, innovative technologies, equitable use of public space, sustainable safety, and evidence-based scientific approach for rebuilding cities for people. The project concept and innovative applications was awarded by MIT Media Lab conference as “best planning system” and ITE Project of year in 2015.

Subsequently, he published a chapter of “Disrupting Mobility” by Springer University of California, Berkeley. He is currently writing a book titled “Our Mobility DNA” with Taylor and Francis and teaching a professional course to summarize innovative mobility concepts and outcomes of urban master planning projects.

He is a registered member as a Professional Engineer in Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and certified as a Professional Traffic Operation Engineer.