This course has been discontinued
Planning for bicycle and pedestrian travel is a somewhat new field of study, and yet it also involves planning and engineering techniques that have been around for many years. This series of courses provides the student with current information on pedestrian and bicycle planning and design techniques, as well as practical lessons on how to increase bicycling and walking through land use practices, engineering measures, and a variety of other urban and rural design procedures.
This 2-hour interactive online course explores the principle of traffic calming and provides a variety of studies, design details, and photographs of areas where traffic calming has been effectively used in the United States and in Europe. Along with the advantages of traffic calming, the text describes mistakes that practitioners have sometimes made in implementing traffic-calming techniques. This course includes a multiple-choice test at the end.
At the conclusion of the course, you will understand:
- The principles of traffic calming and how it helps reduce crime and provide an increased in safety while reducing severity of injury in traffic crashes
- Some of the issues related to traffic calming which can impact the livelihood of the same public it is design to help
- The design and use of a variety of traffic calming devices, including various types of raised pavement areas, reduced street areas, street closures, traffic diversion, surface texture and visual devices
- Understand how Traffic Calming reduces motorist speeds and help safely protect pedestrians and bicyclists from accidents
To comply with AIA and state requirements, all new online courses must be evaluated to confirm the assigned credit hour value. The assigned credit hour value for this course is as stated above, pending confirmation within 90 days. Please be assured RedVector.com has NEVER had a course NOT meet its assigned credit hour value after evaluation, but has agreed to abide by the AIA and state requirements regardless. RedVector.com will refund the difference in price should any online course be assigned less credit than originally estimated.