KAI's Transportation Education Series provides interactive presentation sessions intended to promote professional development and advancements in transportation engineering and planning.
On a regular basis, transportation professionals are faced with the challenge of limited financial resources and staggering demands for improving safety on the transportation network. KAI invites you to a lunchtime workshop about how the latest safety research can be used to identify and prioritize near- and long-term improvements. The goal of the workshop is to inform participants of resources that can be used to identify and prioritize improvements based on their anticipated safety performance. The approach and resources that will be discussed can be used to augment traditional corridor studies, road safety audits, and other similar project types.
During the session, KAI staff will share the approach and findings from the US 12 Chehalis Safety Study that was conducted in collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, Washington DOT, Thurston County, and Grays Harbor County. This project has been presented to the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Subcommittee on Safety Management and at the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting as a case study for applying AASHTO’s Highway Safety Manual (HSM) and supplemental published safety research to inform planning and preliminary design decisions.
Please join us on Thursday, February 21, 2013, at KAI’s Portland, OR office to learn more about this topic. The workshop will kick off at 11:30am and will run until 1:30pm. Lunch will be on hand when you arrive at the office. Please indicate any dietary restrictions in the notes section of the RSVP. There is no cost to attend this session and the workshop is equal to 2.0 professional development hours (PDH).
If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Dave Mills, the Portland Office Manager, at (503) 535-7482. We hope you can join us for this informative workshop on this fun and engaging topic.
Erin Ferguson, PE
A major focus of Erin’s career is guiding the integration of safety into transportation planning and engineering at a local and national scale. She was one of the authors of the HSM and has taught HSM applications to engineers, planners, and analysts across the US, including courses in Arizona, California, Oregon, Maryland, Florida, Alaska and Utah. In addition to the safety applications and research, Erin also brings eight years of experience in transportation planning and preliminary design.
Brian Ray, PE
Brian brings more than 25 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning, traffic engineering, and contextual roadway design. His safety related experience includes serving as a technical senior resource and providing quality assurance review for integrating safety into existing planning and design processes and projects as well as oversight and guidance for developing training course materials on how to perform safety analysis. Brian routinely conducts training courses on applying the HSM, roadway geometric design, modern roundabouts, and context sensitive solutions.
Joey Bansen, PE
Joey is active in a variety of transportation planning, evaluation, and design projects throughout the United States, with a focus in preliminary and final design. His strong roadway design background is a natural strength he brings to road safety audits and corridor safety analysis. Joey is able to integrate his final design experience into earlier stages of the project development process, which helps identify effective and feasible solutions. The breadth and depth of his project work includes traffic signal design, signing and striping design, intersection alternatives evaluation and design, corridor preliminary design and concept evaluation, interchange functional design, roundabout design and evaluation, and traffic impact analysis.