June 18, 2024 10:00 – 11:00am PT The National Center for Rural Road Safety (NCRRS) and the National Local Technical Assistance Program Association (NLTAPA) Safety Work Group are co-hosting a free 1-hour webinar entitled Filibusters, Snipers, and Verbal Jiu Jitsu: How to Manage a Public Speaking Event. Learn to overcome the fear of strangers in … Read more Webinar: How to Manage a Public Speaking Event
June 20, 2024 11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT In response to more frequent flood events, multi-disciplinary design teams at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Western Federal Lands Highway Division are implementing long-term streambank stabilization measures. These measures are intended to preserve the integrity of highway infrastructure while minimizing environmental impacts. An emerging approach called … Read more Webinar: FHWA’s Innovation Exchange – Engineered Log Jams
The Spring 2024 edition of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) quarterly newsletter The Traffic Safety Navigator, has been published. This quarter’s newsletter provides SHSP updates, best practices for implementing strategies to achieve zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries, findings from the Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment, and much more! Access the Caltrans SHSP E-Newsletter pdf … Read more Strategic Highway Safety Plan Newsletter – Spring 2024
In an effort to address the ongoing challenge of recruiting and retaining transportation maintenance workers, the Minnesota Local Road Research Board has sponsored a project, which seeks to provide easily accessible online tools that local agencies can use to help recruit and retain maintenance professionals. Register now for the upcoming webinar on Tuesday, July 9, … Read more Webinar: Resources for Roadway Maintenance Careers in Minnesota
USDOT Technical Assistance Spotlight• The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is offering a new, free, four-hour online Fundamentals of Community Impact Assessment (CIA) course through the National Highway Institute (FHWA-NHI-142096) that explores the iterative process of evaluating the effects of a transportation action on a community and its quality of life. This course will inform transportation … Read more USDOT Technical Assistance, Resources, & Funding Opportunities
Below are innovations and accomplishments from the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Center for Local Aid Support (CLAS) that may provide ideas for California’s partners to benchmark. The CLAS provides oversight of training and guidance to the nationwide Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) such as California’s LTAP Center, and Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP). City of … Read more FHWA Local Aid Support – Innovations and Highlights