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These seminars will focus on the transportation professional’s role in creating Safe Routes to School, identifying critical barriers discouraging children from walking or bicycling to school and various traffic controls used for school areas.  Course titles include "Overview of Safe Routes to School", "Identifying Barriers and Engineering Solutions for Safe Routes to School" and "School Area Traffic Controls". While the courses may be taken separately, participants are encouraged to attend the courses in the scheduled order.

Instructors:

David J. Parisi P.E., MITE, Principal, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting , Mill Valley, CA, USA

David provides Safe Routes to School training throughout the U.S. and assisted in the development of FHWA’s training program. He is the lead contractor for the Marin County, CA, Safe Routes to School Program and the Pasadena, CA, Suggested Routes to School Project. He is ITE’s liaison with the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center in the development of a Safe Routes to School Guidebook.

Becky Crowe, Safe Routes to School Program Manager, Federal Highway Administration, Richmond, VA, USA

Becky serves as the Safe Routes to School Program Manager and Road Safety Audit (RSA) Program Manager for the Office of Safety for the Federal Highway Administration.Before joining the Office of Highway Safety in 2007, Becky worked for the Virginia Division of Federal Highway Administration for six years and managed multiple highway safety programs including the Highway Safety Improvement Program, Strategic Highway Safety Plans and Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety programs including the Safe Routes to School program.Becky attended one of the first Safe Routes to School National Instructor Trainings in 2005 and was certified as a League Cycling Instructor (LCI) in 2002.

This seminar will focus on the transportation professional’s role in creating Safe Routes to School. The seminar will provide input and guidance on:

• What are Safe Routes to School programs? 
• What types of activities are usually part of Safe Routes to School programs?
• How does a transportation professional become actively involved?
• How are Safe Routes to School programs and improvements funded and resources are available? 

At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:

1) Know what are Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs
2) Describe types of activities that are usually part of SRTS programs
3) Understand how transportation professionals can become actively involved in Safe Routes to School programs
4) Identify how Safe Routes to School programs and improvements are funded and what resources are available
5) Identify the seven steps in conducting an organized interview

INSTRUCTORS:

David J. Parisi P.E., MITE, Principal, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting , Mill Valley, CA, USA

David provides Safe Routes to School training throughout the U.S. and assisted in the development of FHWA’s training program. He is the lead contractor for the Marin County, CA, Safe Routes to School Program and the Pasadena, CA, Suggested Routes to School Project. He is ITE’s liaison with the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center in the development of a Safe Routes to School Guidebook.

Becky Crowe, Safe Routes to School Program Manager, Federal Highway Administration, Richmond, VA, USA

Becky serves as the Safe Routes to School Program Manager and Road Safety Audit (RSA) Program Manager for the Office of Safety for the Federal Highway Administration.Before joining the Office of Highway Safety in 2007, Becky worked for the Virginia Division of Federal Highway Administration for six years and managed multiple highway safety programs including the Highway Safety Improvement Program, Strategic Highway Safety Plans and Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety programs including the Safe Routes to School program.Becky attended one of the first Safe Routes to School National Instructor Trainings in 2005 and was certified as a League Cycling Instructor (LCI) in 2002.

• Conducting a Safe Routes to School audit
• Identifying issues
• Engineering tools for the School Zone
• Measures to use along the School Route
• Techniques to improve street crossings
• Means of slowing down traffic
• Safe Routes to School resources

At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:

1) Identify issues and engineer tools for school zone
2) Identify measures to use along the school route
3) Know techniques to improve street crossings and means of slowing down traffic

INSTRUCTOR:

David J. Parisi P.E., MITE, Principal, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting , Mill Valley, CA, USA

David provides Safe Routes to School training throughout the U.S. and assisted in the development of FHWA’s training program. He is the lead contractor for the Marin County, CA, Safe Routes to School Program and the Pasadena, CA, Suggested Routes to School Project. He is ITE’s liaison with the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center in the development of a Safe Routes to School Guidebook.

• School route plan maps
• Crossing supervision, including crossing guards and student patrols
• Types, use and location of school area signing
• Types, use and location of school area pavement markings
• Developing signing and pavement marking plans
• Application of Chapter 7 of the MUTCD
• State modifications to the MUTCD
• Available resources

At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:

1) Identify traffic control devices used in school zones
2) Understand key elements of school traffic controls
3) Describe methods that can be used to comply with the new standards

INSTRUCTOR:

David J. Parisi P.E., MITE, Principal, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting , Mill Valley, CA, USA

David provides Safe Routes to School training throughout the U.S. and assisted in the development of FHWA’s training program. He is the lead contractor for the Marin County, CA, Safe Routes to School Program and the Pasadena, CA, Suggested Routes to School Project. He is ITE’s liaison with the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center in the development of a Safe Routes to School Guidebook.