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Date(s): September 27, 2007
Location: Audio/Web Broadcast
Cost: Members: $150.00
Non Members: $200.00
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Description: Learn how your agency can easily implement Road System Traffic Safety Reviews (TSR) to begin reducing crashes immediately. The following processes will be covered; start-up, roadway selection, field review, and deficiency correction as well as their subsequent treatment evaluation, treatment selection methodology, and cost-benefit measurement process details.

Find out how to:
• Explain the importance of a Traffic Safety Review
• Develop a program that is cost effective and beneficial
• Structure a Road System Traffic Safety Review






This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs. The form to request these credits is included in the handouts for this program.
Speaker: Eugene Calvert, P.E., PTOE

Collier County Division of Transportation
Naples, FL

Eugene Calvert has been involved in the construction and management of highway improvement projects on the local level for thirty years. He has served as the County Engineer and Department Director for the management of county highways in Wyoming, California and Florida. Mr. Calvert is a co-recipient of the 2003 Eldon J. Yoder Award from the National Academies Transportation Research Board (TRB) for his work on the Road System Traffic Safety Reviews. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in civil engineering – transportation from the University of Wyoming and is a licensed professional engineer in four states and a registered land surveyor in two.
Speaker: Steve Ford, P.E.

Civil Engineer
Mendocino County
Ukiah, CA

Stephen Ford has worked in traffic and road safety for 15 years. During the 1990s, he developed the program of Road System Traffic Safety Reviews for the Mendocino County Department of Transportation (California). He is co-recipient of the 2003 Eldon J. Yoder Award for a paper on the program presented at the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) 8th International Low Volume Roads Conference. He received his B.S. in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering from Northrop Institute of Technology and holds registrations as a Civil Engineer and a Traffic Engineer in California. Steve is a member of ITE and a TRB Affiliate.
Speaker: Ben Gribbon

Safety Training and Professional Development Manager
Federal Highway Administration - Office of Safety
Washington, DC

Mr. R. Benjamin (Ben) Gribbon is the Safety Training and Professional Development Manager in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety, where he is responsible for the Roadway Safety Professional Capacity Building (PCB) program, creating and managing a clearinghouse of safety training information, identifying competencies and training gaps, and working with partners to ensure an adequately training highway safety workforce.

Mr. Gribbon has more than 20 years of experience in transportation operations, research, and education. Most recently, he managed the Local Technical Assistance Programs (LTAP) training at the University of Maryland Transportation Technology Transfer Center and the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies. He has specialized in working closely with local governments to address real training needs. Previously, he provided technical assistance to many local transit systems as a Project Manager for the Minnesota Department of Transportation Office of Transit, the University of South Florida Center for Urban Transportation Research, and Ketron Division of the Bionetics Corporation. He helped manage a mid-size transit system for the University of Maryland, College Park, where he received his graduate and undergraduate education in Urban Planning.

He is currently coordinating implementation of Safetea-Lu safety provisions, and actively coordinating safety competencies and training data with the committees of the Transportation Curriculum Coordinating Council (TC3), FHWA, NHI, the NLTAPA , and APWA.
Speaker: MODERATOR: Don Neumann

Safety Engineer
Federal Highway Administration
Jefferson City, MO
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