Cost-Effective Roadway Safety Improvements (CERSI) and Safe System Approach Workshop

A one-day, virtual workshop for up to 30 attendees. This workshop provides an introduction to the Safe System Approach (SSA) using NCHRP Research Report 1135: A Guide to Applying the Safe System Approach to Transportation Planning, Design, and Operations as the foundational reference. Participants will learn how the Safe System framework reshapes the technical basis for roadway safety planning, geometric design, and operational decision-making by accounting for human fallibility and biomechanical limits. The final part of the workshop focuses on applying SSA to speed management, showing how technical strategies in planning, design, operations, and enforcement can be aligned to manage kinetic energy and reduce crash severity.

Target Audience

• State DOT and local agency engineers

• Planners

• Public works staff

• Law enforcement

• Safety advocates

Delivery Details

• Duration: 1 day (8:00 AM to 4:30 PM)

• Format: Lecture, case studies, group exercises, and discussion

• Objective: Equip participants with actionable, cost-effective safety strategies for any budget to reduce severe crashes, aligned with Safe System Approach principles

Materials Provided

• Slide deck (PDF with embedded online resources and references)

• Example benefit-cost worksheets

• List of available funding resources (HSIP, state, and local programs)

• Relevant links (Safe System Approach, toolkits)

Students who complete this non-credit course will receive 6 Professional Development Hours (PDHs).

Note: CEU is a general term for Continuing Education Units. The continuing education units this course offers are not issued by the University of Maryland.