The Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) is a nationally-recognized “Roadway Safety 101” training series. It is made for staff in transportation, public health, and first responder agencies who have an interest in roadway safety but are not safety experts.

The RSCP includes seven core modules plus career-focused pathways. Once participants complete the seven core modules and one pathway, they are awarded a Road Safety Champion Program Certificate.

The first module of the Planning & Engineering Pathway explores how safety 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.

Additional course detail is provided in the sections below.

• Course Topics
  • Learn about safety countermeasure, incl. infrastructure, behavioral, or programmatic and policy implementations
  • Gain an overview of safety countermeasures applicable to local roads with an emphasis on low-cost practices
  • Discuss Crash Modification Factors (CMFs), systemic safety analysis, and factors for evaluating and selecting countermeasures
• Course Outline

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• What you will learn

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• Who should attend

  Staff in transportation, public health, and first responder agencies who have an interest in roadway safety but are not safety experts.

• Course Prerequisites

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• Course Instructors

  Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider

  Walt Catlett serves as the Safety Circuit Rider for the National Center for Rural Road Safety. He also helps manage Virginia’s Safety Circuit Rider Program, which has produced more than thirty Road Safety Champions in the past two years. 

  Walt is an active instructor for multiple Local Technical Assistance Programs to include Texas LTAP, Oklahoma LTAP and Virginia LTAP. He was the Education and Outreach Director for the National TTAP Pilot where he led a team of thirteen subject matter experts who delivered training, technical assistance, and technology transfer across the twelve BIA Regions.

  Walt holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.

• Registration Information

  To view upcoming sessions and to register for this course, visit the National Center for Rural Road Safety

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