Course Description:

This course introduces engineering tools that address excessive traffic speed and/or cut-through traffic on residential streets and provides information that can help municipalities establish a traffic calming program for their roadways. This course defines traffic calming, describes various traffic calming devices, outlines potential positive and negative impacts on a neighborhood, and reviews a sample traffic calming program. It also investigates related issues, such as impacts of traffic calming devices on liability, roadway maintenance, and emergency service.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the various traffic calming measures and the traffic situations they apply to
2. Identify traffic calming impacts
3. Identify legal authority and liability of installing engineered traffic calming measures

Intended Audience:

The intended audience is anyone who is responsible for receiving complaints or inquiries about speeding and/or cut-through traffic issues. This includes engineers, public works superintendents, municipal managers, planners, etc. Law enforcement and elected officials may also benefit from this course.

Pre-Requisites:

None

Credits:

4 PDH and 4 technical CPWM applied for.

Presenter:

Gordon Meth

Sponsor:

This workshop is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and New Jersey Department of Transportation through the New Jersey Local Technical Assistance Program.