Spring 2026 Session | 31 March 2026 to 9 April 2026
Total duration: 12 hours (4 x 3-hour classes)
Road agency executives play a decisive role in shaping the safety performance of a road network through the choices they make on planning, design oversight, maintenance strategies, investment prioritisation and performance monitoring. These decisions directly influence road safety risk exposure, likelihood and severity.
This new programme presented by the IRF is designed to equip decision-makers with a practical, system-level understanding of road safety management, enabling them to interpret crash and risk data, select proven safety treatments and build robust, defensible investment cases. Participants will also learn how to establish monitoring frameworks that support accountability, guide continuous improvement and deliver measurable reductions in fatal and serious injuries across the network.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand where and when to effect change for improved safety outcomes
- Diagnose network-wide and site-specific safety risks to inform decision-making
- Evaluate and prioritise safety interventions using CBA and risk-based criteria
- Assess and select interventions that effectively mitigate risks to vulnerable road user groups
- Develop robust and defendable investment cases for safer road treatments
- Set ambitious requirements for design teams and contractors
- Integrate road safety into maintenance, operations and asset management decisions
- Communicate safety risks, priorities and recommendations clearly and persuasively
Target Audience
This course is designed for professionals who influence, support or oversee road safety–related decisions across the project lifecycle and on road networks in operation, including:
- Road agency managers, regional and district engineers and staff with responsibility for network performance
- Asset management and maintenance programme leads involved in planning, prioritisation and resource allocation
- Road safety engineers, analysts and specialists supporting diagnostics, audits and evidence-based decision-making
- Technical advisors and consultants working with road authorities on safety strategies, investment planning or programme design
- Representatives of funding and development institutions engaged in the appraisal, financing or oversight of road safety investments
Course Structure
Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 14:00-17:15 CEST
How managers influence road safety outcomes at network level
Key topics:
- Shifting the mindset: from reactive responses to proactive safety management
- Core road safety concepts for managers:
- Risk, exposure and severity
- Network-level vs site-level safety performance
- Road Safety in the Project Lifecycle: how planning, design oversight and operations and maintenance decisions shape road safety outcomes
- Understanding where and when managerial action has the greatest impact
- Positioning vulnerable road users as a strategic safety priority
Date: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 14:00-17:15 CEST
From crash data to actionable insight
Key topics:
- Making sense of crash and risk data:
- What crash data can and cannot tell you
- Accident analysis and human factors
- Monitoring frameworks and performance indicators
- Network screening approaches:
- Identifying high-risk locations and corridors
- Site investigations and safety reviews
- Using risk indicators to support prioritisation
- The strategic role of road safety audits:
- Purpose, scope and limitations
- Managerial responsibilities before and after audits
Date: Tuesday, 7 April 2026, 14:00-17:15 CEST
From diagnosis to treatments and investment decisions
Key topics:
- Principles for selecting effective safety treatments
- Matching interventions to risk types and user groups
- Addressing risks to vulnerable road users through targeted measures
- Avoiding politically attractive but low-impact solutions
- Case exercises
Date: Thursday, 9 April 2026, 14:00-17:15 CEST
Embedding safety into everyday management decisions
Key topics:
- Evaluating and prioritising interventions using cost–benefit analysis
- Building robust and defendable investment cases for road safety
- Translating safety benefits into funding and approval arguments
- Integrating safety into operations and maintenance
- Legal, economic and governance dimensions of road safety management
- Leadership reflection: accountability, culture and sustained improvement
Lead Instructor
Eur Ing Miguel-Angel Serrano Santos
MEng (Hons) CEng MICE CMgr MCMI FCIHT FSoRSA FASEVI
Miguel-Angel Serrano Santos is a distinguished Chartered Civil Engineer and internationally recognised authority in road safety. A graduate of the University of Granada in Spain, he currently serves as Lead Trainer for the International Road Federation (IRF).
His career spans over two decades across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with notable leadership roles. He has played a pivotal role in fostering cross-border partnerships among engineering professionals and has delivered Traffic Management and Road Safety courses to students and practitioners worldwide.
Associate Instructors
Prof. George Yannis
George Yannis is a Professor in Traffic and Safety Engineering and Director of Traffic Engineering Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He leads the NTUA Road Safety Observatory, a Center of Research and Innovation Excellence with global recognition for its highly valuable contribution to safer mobility for all, in Greece, in Europe and worldwide.
Prof. Marko Ševrović
Marko Ševrović is the Head of the Department of Transport Planning at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is also a Senior Road Safety Engineer at EIRA-EuroRAP and a Charted Engineer for Road Transport. He holds a PhD in the field of road transport and has over twenty years of experience working on different transport planning, road infrastructure design and road safety projects.
Dr. Craig Milligan, P. Eng.
Craig Milligan has completed more than 75 safety audits and in-service road safety reviews and developed more than 200 collision prediction models for multiple jurisdictions. Craig previously held safety specialist positions with Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation and the World Bank, where he was the lead author of the road safety chapter on their flagship report for transport capital budget allocation decisions. He is a coauthor of numerousguidelines as well as peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked road safety journals and has taught several undergraduate civil and transportation engineering courses at the University of Manitoba.
Enrolment Fees
- Individual Registrations: 1100 CHF
- Group Registration (min. 3): 850 CHF
- IRF Members: 850 CHF
Enquiries: training@irfofficial.org
Why Attend an IRF Training Programme?
- Learn what actually works. IRF training demystifies complex concepts and translates them into actionable methods you can apply immediately.
- Upgrade your professional toolkit. You leave with diagnostic tools, checklists and frameworks used by leading agencies worldwide.
- Be taught by trusted experts. IRF instructors have hands-on experience delivering projects, reforms and technical assistance in dozens of countries.
- Engage with your peers. The format encourages discussion, collaborative exercises and sharing of institutional challenges and solutions.
- Strengthen your organisation. Participants return with the capacity to improve systems, processes, decisions and performance.
- Build towards long-term capability. Training integrates with IRF advisory services and capacity building programmes for lasting institutional impact.
- Recognised certification. IRF credentials help professionals demonstrate competence to employers, clients and funders.
