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TRB National Summit on The Future of the Transportation Workforce

Save the Date, June 2-4, 2025!

The TRB National Summit on the Future of the Transportation Workforce will be held June 2-4, 2025 in Westminster, Colorado (near Denver). Be a part of the conversation as we address the challenges faced in each of the workforce life cycle steps and help identify the research needs of practitioners to ensure a resilient and skilled workforce for our changing modes and communities.

The Summit will address three main questions:

How do we attract and engage a diverse workforce?
What kind of workforce do we need for the 21st century?
What business models and tools sustainably support workforce needs?

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New NCHRP Report Features NNTW Researchers

The NCHRP report, Attracting, Retaining, and Developing the 2030 Transportation Workforce: Design, Construction, and Maintenance has been released. NNTW leaders Glenn McRae, Tyler Reeb, Tom O’Brien, and Susan Gallagher contributed. State departments of transportation are responsible for providing a safe, efficient, and effective transportation system of infrastructure and services. To meet these responsibilities, transportation agencies need a highly skilled workforce with the expertise required to identify and address current transportation needs while also being prepared to address the challenges of the future. This publication provides a guide with specific strategies and action plans to help agencies identify and address workforce needs through 2030 and beyond.

2023 National Summit on Rural Road Safety

The National Center for Rural Road Safety is excited to announce that the 2023 National Summit on Rural Road Safety will be held September 12-14, 2023 in Oklahoma City, OK. The Summit will be in partnership with the National Association of Development Organization’s (NADO) National Regional Transportation Conference (NRTC). The theme is “Resources for Rurals: Equipping you to save lives”. NNTW Center Staff from the Northeast and West Regions are active in the planning and development of the conference and in the running of the center.

The goal of the Rural Road Safety Summit is to provide rural transportation practitioners proven resources and noteworthy practices to make their roads safer. Suggested topics must support this purpose. You’ll get:

Sessions and trainings customized specifically for rural transportation practitioners
Ideas on how you can partner with law enforcement and public health professionals in your area to make roads safer
Networking with local and national rural professionals like you
Practical takeaways you can use right away

Applied Improv Workshop

December 1st, 2022 Event: NNTW partnered with the National Transportation Training Directors to present a workshop with The Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA/PATCO) that has successfully made use of the principles of comedy improvisation, such as deep listening, empathy, and collaborative trust to nurture leadership skills and cooperation throughout the organization and continue to build a transformative organization to produce award-winning projects. This builds on an introductory workshop offered last March. The recording of this workshop can be found at this link.

National Center for Rural Road Safety Announces Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP)

The National Center for Rural Road Safety is excited to announce the latest version of the Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP)! This national certificate program is designed to be a “Roadway Safety 101” course. It is best for practitioners in transportation, public health, and law enforcement who do not have deep road safety knowledge.

The Safety Center is offering a series of webinars/online training sessions, which cover its core modules of the RSCP. Each training is two hours long.

The trainings will use Zoom. Please ensure Zoom is on your “safe” email list before registering to ensure you receive the link to attend.

RSCP Core Module #3: Introduction to Traffic Safety Culture
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET
This training introduces growing positive traffic safety culture to significantly improve road safety in America. Participants will leave the training with a better understanding of the elements that shape traffic safety culture, how those factors interact to affect behaviors related to traffic safety, strategies that can be implemented to improve traffic safety culture among various groups, and ideas about how they can leverage their role (and the role of others) in growing a positive traffic safety culture.
Link to registration

RSCP Core Module #4: Overview of the MUTCD
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2022
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET
This module is an introduction and overview of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). The MUTCD defines the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed, and used on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public traffic.
Link to registration

RSCP Core Module #5: Intersection of Transportation with Public Health and Law Enforcement
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET
This two-hour training will discuss the need for transportation, public health and law enforcement agencies to work together on the road to zero and strategies to achieve this.
Link to registration

RSCP Core Module #6: Reading the Roadway
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET
This two-hour training will teach participants how to “read the road” as well as the importance of doing so in daily activities. It will use real-world examples of different roadway components to demonstrate how participants may be able to uncover potential safety issues during their routine activities.
Link to registration

RSCP Core Module #7: Safety Analysis Process
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET
This two-hour training will cover the safety analysis process and discuss how it can be applied using two different complementary analysis methods: the traditional site analysis and the systemic analysis. Additionally, case studies will be utilized to demonstrate practical applications on the process.
Link to registration