The National Center for Rural Road Safety (NCRRS) is a premier center of excellence for training, resources, technical assistance, and education on rural road safety issues. Funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the NCRRS equips rural communities to prevent all deaths and serious injuries on their roadways.
Traffic Safety Events
NEW! Teen Driver Safety Week
October 19 – 25, 2025
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
A teen’s inexperience behind the wheel makes them more susceptible to crashes, so including teen safety messaging in a traffic safety communication plan is important. Specific risk factors for teens behind the wheel include: alcohol and drug use, not wearing a seat belt, distracted driving, additional passengers, speeding, and drowsy driving. Teen Driver Safety Week is a good opportunity to increase safety messaging across all platforms.
National School Bus Safety Week
October 20-24, 2025
NHTSA
Millions of children across the nation ride a school bus every day – that’s why school bus safety is important in every community. Use National School Bus Safety Week as an opportunity to increase messaging across all platforms.
Pedestrian Safety Month
October 2025
NHTSA
During October, USDOT and NHTSA celebrate National Pedestrian Safety Month. At some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian, which is why pedestrian safety is an essential part of every highway safety communications plan.
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR)
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Vision Zero Network, Families for Safe Streets, It Could Be Me, Road to Zero Coalition
Join communities across the U.S. and around the world for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Sunday, November 16, 2025. Organizers nationwide are holding events to remember those lost, support those impacted, and demand urgent change to prevent future tragedies.
Crash Responder Safety Week
November 17-21, 2025
National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE)
The Crash Responder Safety Week (CRSW) affords a unique opportunity for every Traffic Incident Management (TIM) community member to make a difference individually and jointly for roadway safety during traffic incidents.
Webinars
Free: Education – Teaching Walking Safety from a Young Age
Thursday, October 23, 2025
7:30 am – 9:00 am PT
Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT)
Educating and creating healthy habits from a young age can make a lifetime of difference. Join safety experts in discussing different approaches to improving safety outcomes for kids, via medical professionals, communications campaigns and programs like Safe Routes to School (SRTS). This Walkinar will feature national and local experts as they discuss the demands and resources needed to create safer environments for youth.
Free: Mapping What Matters – Building Safer Transportation Systems with Pedestrian Asset Data
Thursday, October 23, 2025
10:00 am – 11:00 am PT
Vizion Zero Network
Many communities lack reliable, up-to-date information about essential elements of their transportation systems, preventing them from making the case for safety improvements. In this webinar, with Ecopia AI, attendees will learn about new tools to assess community’s infrastructure and strengthen proposals to invest in change for safe streets. Learn about how communities are using Ecopia’s mapping technology to leverage highly precise transportation features from the latest imagery, providing vectorized data of critical infrastructure, including roads, individual traffic lanes, intersections, sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes and more. Hear from planners with the State of Rhode Island, who will share their experiences applying high-precision data for pedestrian safety analysis. This session will offer practical ways to use advanced mapping tools for healthier and safer communities. For more information about this training, please see the Vision Zero Network webpage.
New! Using Snapshots to Advance Transportation Planning
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00 am – 11:30 am PT
$100
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Transportation practitioners and decision makers alike can use TRB’s planning “snapshots” to develop, implement, and advance programs for Complete Streets, data sharing, freight delivery, and economic analysis. TRB is hosting this webinar that will go through the process of creating concise summaries of current practices across these four topics by conducting and synthesizing practitioner surveys. Presenters will share findings from the snapshots, explain how the maturity-level spectrum can help agencies at different stages of implementation, and describe the repeatable process and tools created for use in future planning topics. For more information about this training, visit the National Academies webpage.
New! Free: The Realities of Roadkill – Challenges and Opportunities for Wildlife Transportation Mitigation
Friday, October 24, 2025
11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT
Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)
Transportation infrastructure is critical for our communities and economies, but the roadways we depend on for travel have significant negative impacts on wildlife populations. Roadkill is the most visible consequence, with tens of millions of animals injured or killed on Oregon’s roadways each year. Beyond direct mortality, transportation corridors fragment habitat and can alter wildlife behavior, creating barriers that disrupt wildlife movement and access to critical resources, contributing to population declines.
Despite these challenges, opportunities exist for mitigation, including the use of wildlife crossing structures, autonomous animal detection systems, and smarter project siting. This talk will explore the multifaceted challenges transportation infrastructure poses to wildlife populations and highlight successful mitigation strategies. By better integrating ecological principles into transportation planning, we can develop infrastructure that supports both human mobility and wildlife conservation goals. For more information about this training, please see the TREC webpage.
Improving Teen Driver Safety
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT
$60
TRB
The latest National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data indicates that fatality and crash rates among teen drivers have been increasing over the past few years. TRB is hosting a webinar that will discuss the results from two Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) reports that used naturalistic driving data to gain a broader understanding of the risks facing teen drivers. Presenters will share evidence on how the amount of time spent with supervised experience in different roadway environments can improve safety outcomes once teens begin driving independently. Presenters will also discuss how distraction, specifically “eyes off the road,” changes with driving experience and why attention to the forward roadway is especially critical for teen learners. Newly-published findings compare risky driving and crash rates with teens with distraction factors like Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. For more information about this training, please visit the National Academies webpage.
New!
Free: Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Take Action Now – Maintaining Safety (M&C#5)
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
NCRRS
This course is a deep look at maintenance safety solutions that construction and maintenance personnel can implement daily. It will focus on safety topics using three FHWA documents: Vegetation Control for Safety, A Guide for Local Highway and Street Maintenance Personnel, Maintenance of Drainage Features for Safety, A Guide for Local Street and Highway Maintenance Personnel and Maintenance of Signs and Sign Supports: A Guide for Local Roads Maintenance Personnel as the basis.
New!
Free: Deploy and Drive – Real-World Vehicle to Everything (V2X) in Action
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT
ITS America
Forget theory—this is connected vehicle technology live and in the wild. This session highlights real-world V2X deployments enabling emergency preemption, digital traffic alerts, and signal prioritization across U.S. cities and corridors. Learn how infrastructure and vehicles are communicating today, how agencies are building scalable platforms, and what it takes to go from concept to full deployment. For anyone tired of pilots and ready for practice, this session delivers the goods. For more information about this training, please see the ITS America webpage.
Free! Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Evaluation of the Legal Landscape Impacting First Responders (FR#6)
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
11:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT
NCRRS
In this module, participants will examine a broad range of legal, procedural, and operational issues that directly affect the work of first responders. By staying informed and adaptive, you ensure your actions align with professional standards and current best practices—leading to more consistent, legally sound, and safety-focused outcomes in the field.
New & Free: Agency – Walking Across Maryland with the State Secretaries Roundtable
Thursday, October 30, 2025
7:30 am – 9:00 am PT
Maryland Department of Transportation
Maryland is at the forefront of sustainable growth, with State agencies united in shaping livable, affordable, and walkable communities for all. Join Maryland state agency leaders for a roundtable discussion about how walkability creates more equitable and vibrant places. Each secretary will explore the range of initiatives undertaken by their agencies to improve and promote walking across Maryland.
New! Back to Basics – Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs)
Monday, November 3, 2025
11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT
Free members / $79 non-members
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
This webinar will focus on the benefits and best practices of implementing LPIs to improve pedestrian safety and visibility at signalized intersections. The webinar will share jurisdiction examples and strategies for successfully implementing LPIs. Participants will gain practical insights into when and how to incorporate LPIs into traffic signal operations. For more information about this training, please visit the ITE webpage.
New! Diagnostic Assessments and Countermeasure Selection in the Safe System
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
9:00 am – 10:30 am PT
$100
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Accurately diagnosing the causes of crashes allows transportation professionals to select the most effective countermeasures. TRB is hosting a webinar that will present tools and methods for conducting diagnostic assessments and selecting countermeasures within the Safe System framework. The session will emphasize the importance of understanding human factors, behavioral influences, roadway conditions, and user interactions when choosing treatments to address crash types and road user needs. Presenters will discuss how to differentiate between human factors and driver behavior issues, assess contributing factors to crashes, and identify countermeasures that align with underlying causes. For more information about this training, see the National Academies webpage.
Free: Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Countermeasures for Road Safety (P&E#1)
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
NCRRS
Road safety countermeasures save lives. These countermeasures can include infrastructure, behavioral, or programmatic and policy implementations. This training will provide an overview of safety countermeasures applicable to local roads with an emphasis on low-cost practices. Discussions include Crash Modification Factors (CMFs), systemic safety analysis, and factors for evaluating and selecting countermeasures.
Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Integrating Public Health and Transportation to Enhance Road User Safety (PH#1)
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
NCRRS
Explore the relationship between public health and transportation through a public health-rooted approach to transportation safety. Participants will learn key terms and principles of public health practices as well as opportunities to integrate public health approaches and considerations into transportation safety work.
Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Safety of Responders on Roads (FR#3)
Thursday, December 11, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
A supplement to the National Traffic Incident Management Responder training, this module provides a deeper understanding of tools, recommendations, and materials available for first responders to ensure their safety while working on the side of the road.
Trainings
Virtual: Improving Outcomes Framework Training
Tuesday – Thursday, December 9 – 11, 2025
8:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
$475
Banyan Collaborative
Addressing complex health issues like preventing substance misuse or improving traffic safety is challenging. A strong framework can make all the difference. The Improving Outcomes Framework combines public health, prevention science, and behavior change in a comprehensive, positive approach to help you improve health and safety in your organizations and communities.
This virtual training brings together three critical components:
- Mindsets: The foundation. This is where true transformation begins. We work with you to uncover and cultivate the guiding principles and perspectives that guide how to approach your work.
- Process: The roadmap. A clear, repeatable series of steps is the roadmap for achieving outcomes. Once mindsets are aligned, we’ll give you a clear, actionable process that outlines the “how-to” for what to do next.
- Skills: The tools. With clear mindsets and a process in place, the final component is the practical skills to help you create a culture where new ideas and actions emerge and take root.
After the training, each participant has the option to participate in a one-hour, one-on-one session to identify their “best next steps” and how to apply what you learned to be more effective.
Virtual: Improve Health & Safety with the Positive Culture Framework – A Foundational Training from Its Creators
Tuesday – Thursday, December 9 – 11, 2025
$475
Banyan Collaborative
The Positive Culture Framework is an approach for tackling complex health and safety challenges like traffic safety including growing support for the Safe System Approach. Developed by Katie Dively and Jay Otto of Banyan Collaborative, this updated training equips you with a 7-step process, essential skills, and real-world context for lasting impact. Katie and Jay bring over 20 years of experience, plus a new leadership component and a dedicated one-on-one follow-up session to ensure success. For more information, please visit the Banyan Collaborative webpage.
Conferences
Virtual: Safe Routes to School Summit
Tuesday – Thursday, October 28 – 30, 2025
$130
Safe Routes Partnership
This three-day event will be filled with presentations and networking opportunities for Safe Routes practitioners, partners, and champions.
What’s New in 2025!
➡️ Breakout Session Choices: Each breakout block will include at least two options to choose from
➡️ Hands-on Workshops: These longer, interactive sessions
➡️ Rural Safe Routes Track: a presentation or workshop specifically designed for rural and small communities
➡️ Virtual Exhibitor Space: Connect with our Summit sponsors
2025 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Annual Meeting
Monday – Thursday, November 17 – 20, 2025
$175 – $1,550
Salt Lake City, UT
The AASHTO Annual Meeting, one of the transportation industry’s most important conferences of the year, brings together experts from the public and private sectors to share the latest in industry policy and innovation. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with fellow transportation professionals and contribute to discussions on a wide range of issues facing the industry today and tomorrow. For more information about this conference, visit the AASHTO webpage.
International Road Federation Global Roads to Tomorrow Conference
Tuesday – Friday, December 9 – 12, 2025
$599 – $999
Los Angeles, CA
International Road Federation (IRF)
Join the world’s premier event for road and mobility professionals as we explore how digitization, artificial intelligence, and cutting-edge innovations are revolutionizing the roads and transportation sector. The IRF Global R2T Conference offers a dynamic platform for learning, collaboration, and forging influential partnerships – ensuring you stay at the forefront of a rapidly changing industry. For more information about this conference, please visit the IRF Global webpage.
Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting
Sunday – Thursday, January 11 – 15, 2026
$1,185 – $1,520
Washington, DC
The meeting program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. For more information about this conference, please see the TRB webpage.
For a full list of conferences outside of California, visit the National Center for Rural Road Safety website.
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