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
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.
New! Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving – Thanksgiving
November 22-26, 2025
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
NHTSA offers themed material for ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday that encourages people to not get behind the wheel after drinking and to plan for a safe, sober ride home.
Webinars
New! Projecting the Economic Impact of Future Trails – DIY Forecasting Tools for Communities
Thursday, November 6, 2025
10:00 am – 11:00 am PT
American Trails
Learn how communities can estimate the economic potential of trails and trail networks that don’t yet exist. This webinar focuses on practical, do-it-yourself ways to project the future economic significance and impact of new, expanded, or enhanced trail systems— even when little to no trail user data exists.
Participants will learn how to combine information from studies done elsewhere with local conditions, market context, and informed assumptions to build credible projections of visitor use, spending, jobs, and tax effects. The webinar will demystify common methods used by consultants and show how communities can adapt those approaches using accessible tools and publicly available data. Drawing from real-world examples, the session will provide step-by-step guidance on how to translate other regions’ data into local projections. While the focus is on trails of all kinds (gravel, rail, road, mountain biking, and paddling), participants will also see how to apply these methods to other outdoor recreation facilities and events. For more information about this training, please see the Trail Skills webpage.
New! Simulation Art – Predicting the Future with Operational Traffic Models
Thursday, November 6, 2025
10:00 am – 11:30 am PT
$100
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Operational traffic simulation models are powerful tools that help transportation agencies improve planning, design, and real-time operations. Understanding how state departments of transportation (DOTs) develop, manage, and apply these models can enhance consistency, reliability, and decision-making across projects. This webinar will explore how DOTs use operational traffic simulation models in practice. Presenters will share examples of how simulation modeling supports real-world transportation projects, and discuss lessons learned from Virginia’s policies and practices for traffic operations analysis. For more information about this training, see the National Academies webpage.
New! Free Webinar: Rising Construction Costs – Implications for Reauthorization
Thursday, November 6, 2025
11:00 am – 11:45 am PT
Eno Center for Transportation
Since the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in 2021, there has been significant growth in highway construction costs. Potential factors for cost escalations include supply chain disruptions, materials and inputs costs, labor market shortages, demand side increases, number of bidders on projects, state capacity and reliance on consultants, borrowing costs, regulatory costs, and higher quality projects. In August 2025, the Eno Center issued a whitepaper entitled “Rising Construction Costs: Analyzing the Contributors to Cost Escalations and the Impact on Federal Transportation Infrastructure Investments,” exploring competing cost indices, long-term construction cost trends, contributing factors to cost escalations, the impact on federal infrastructure investments, and implications for future transportation funding.
The panelists will discuss how rising construction costs have impacted their members and how increased costs are influencing their advocacy efforts heading into surface transportation reauthorization. For more information about this training, please visit the Eno Center for Transportation webpage.
Free: E-Bike Safety Approaches that Work!
Thursday, November 6, 2025
11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT
Safe Routes Partnership
After the e-bike session at the Safe Routes to School Summit, join us for a follow up discussion with more experts from the field. Learn how the League of American Bicyclists and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards and Engagement are advancing e-bike safety on college and university campuses, and how to apply similar best practices to Safe Routes programs. Gain valuable insights to take back to your own community, whether you are exploring e-bike safety for the first time or refining your approach. For more information about this training, please see the Safe Routes webpage.
Post-Pandemic Travel Trends – Regional and Local Variation
Thursday, November 6, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT
Free members/$79 non-members
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Traffic Engineering Council has been studying various travel trends that occurred during the COVID Pandemic. It is evident that many travel trends have returned to near normal. It is also clear that some have not and that changes vary greatly depending on location, community type (urban vs suburban vs rural), previous mode split, state/local response to COVID-19, and many other factors. ITE tasked the Traffic Engineering Council with identifying and assessing travel characteristics that have not yet returned to pre-COVID conditions. The effort quantifies the changes, identifies the implications to ITE and our industry, and develops a list of ways ITE needs to adjust and perhaps update manuals, processes and standard practices.
During the initial research, it was apparent that some of the factors had significant regional and local variations where application of national trend data does not fit actual conditions. This webinar aims to present and discuss some of the more significant regional and local variations. It also will highlight implications to ITE and our industry. For more information about this training, visit the ITE webpage.
Free Innovation After Dark – Boosting Nighttime Transit Ridership
Monday, November 10, 2025
9:00 am – 10:30 am PT
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Nighttime transit supports workers, businesses, and communities that operate beyond the 9-to-5. Safe, reliable nighttime service is increasingly important to build ridership and improve equitable access. This webinar will explore findings from TCRP Synthesis 181: Planning and Operations Initiatives to Support Nighttime Transit Ridership. This session will highlight how agencies are prioritizing nighttime service, addressing challenges, and implementing innovative practices to meet the needs of late-shift workers and the nighttime economy. Presenters will share examples of safety initiatives like targeted enforcement, operational solutions like improving infrastructure and customer engagement, and lessons learned to support strategies for ridership growth. For more information about this training, please visit the National Academies webpage.
Assess the Effectiveness of High Visibility Enforcement
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
10:00 am – 11:00 am PT
$60
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
High-visibility enforcement (HVE) campaigns are effective in improving traffic safety. However, many agencies face challenges in evaluating their impact due to limited resources, data, and analytical expertise. This webinar will introduce practical tools to assess these campaigns. Presenters will describe frameworks and methodologies for evaluating HVE effectiveness, including data visualization tools, before-and-after analyses, traditional statistical analyses, and spatial/temporal analyses that identify trends and relationships. Presenters will also discuss crash modification factors developed through the project to help agencies better understand the safety impacts of their enforcement efforts. For more information about this training, see the National Academies webpage.
Free: Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Public Health Data to Inform Injury Analysis and Monitoring (PH#2)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
National Center for Rural Road Safety
Learn how public health data can enhance the diagnosis, prediction, and monitoring of traffic injuries. This will include learning about public health system injury, social determinants of health, and behavioral data sources in communities; evidence on how public health data facilitates a more holistic understanding of the contributors, extent, and nature of traffic injury in communities; and how participants might integrate public health data into their injury prediction, diagnosis, and monitoring programs.
Free: U.S. Federal Policy Webinar – 4th Quarter
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT
Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP)
Join APBP’s Policy Special, Caron Whitaker of CLW Consulting, LLC, for a quarterly briefing on the latest developments in U.S. federal transportation policy and legislation. APBP offers these webinars quarterly. For more information about this training, please see the APBP webpage.
New! Free Webinar: Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Overview of Local Road Safety Plans (P&E#3)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
National Center for Rural Road Safety
Local Road Safety Plans (LRSPs) are proven to save lives on rural roads. They offer a foundation for consensus and focus that helps communities take proactive steps to reduce and prevent severe crashes in their communities. This training will provide an overview of an LRSP, including how they support safety efforts, the steps to develop an LRSP, and the strategies for implementing an LRSP in rural communities.
New! Free Webinar: Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) – Intersections between Traffic Safety and Health Culture (PH#3)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
National Center for Rural Road Safety
In this module, participants will learn how health culture can enhance local and organizational traffic safety culture. This will include key elements and constructs of traffic safety culture and a culture of health, data considerations and measures indicating positive traffic safety cultures, ways to foster positive traffic safety culture and a culture of health in rural communities, and examples of culture of health and traffic safety culture partnerships in the U.S.
New! Free Webinar: Partnering for Grants Greatness – State-Level Bike-Ped Innovations
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT
Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP)
More funding is currently available to plan and build infrastructure for our most vulnerable road users (VRU) than at any point in history, yet local governments and advocates consistently cite lack of capacity as a major roadblock to understanding, applying for, and administering grants. These issues compound in underserved communities, where resources such as matching dollars, planning and grant-writing expertise, and familiarity with opportunities are typically scarcer than they are elsewhere. Our panel discussion begins with a brief overview of technical assistance and education programs that already exist in two very different states: California’s established Active Transportation Resource Center and Georgia’s nascent Grants Assistance Program (GAP). This webinar covers the basics of both programs, including formative history, internal funding and operational practices, services, and focus on underserved communities through Justice 40, the Thriving Communities Program, etc. It also highlights a deep-dive discussion of how to set up similar programs in other states, including best practices, successes and challenges, and lessons learned from California and Georgia.
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.
Conferences
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.
Virtual: SPARKS 2025
Wednesday & Thursday, December 8-9, 2025
8:30 am – 12:30 pm PT
Pacific Northwest Social Marketing Association
Both days of SPARKS will feature social marketing experts speaking on behavior change related to some of the most urgent issues we face, including transportation safety, public health, injury prevention, environmental health and protection, and community well-being. Learn best practices on how to change behaviors that cause the most serious traffic crashes and how to target audiences, build campaigns, maximize community engagement, and network with other campaign experts.
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.
American Traffic Safety Services Association Convention and Traffic Expo
February 20-24, 2026
Houston, TX
American Traffic Safety Services Association Convention (ATSSA)
Thousands of key roadway safety and transportation professionals will gather at ATSSA’s 56th Annual Convention & Traffic Expo in Houston, Texas. Attendees will connect with industry leaders, discover the latest safety solutions and capitalize on the newest innovations at North America’s premier gathering to advance roadway safety. For more information about this conference, please visit the ATSSA webpage.
For a full list of conferences outside of California, visit the National Center for Rural Road Safety website.
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