Course Description
The International Road Federation (IRF) together with the Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center of Qatar University and the Traffic Safety Analysis and Policy Special Interest Group of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) are pleased to invite you to this certified training course on Safe Urban Street Design for Vulnerable Road Users.
All road users deserve a safe road. “Vulnerable” Road Users such as pedestrians, motorcyclists, public transport users, non-motorized vehicles and bicyclists at greater risk than vehicle occupants and usually bear the greatest burden of injury during road crashes. In some countries Vulnerable Road Users represent more than 70% of the fatalities. This percentage is about thirty percent (30%) in Qatar. Too often these fatalities and serious injuries are due to high speeds of traffic and the lack of separation between these fast moving motorised vehicles and vulnerable users.
Children, elderly and disabled people are particularly vulnerable, as their physical and mental skills are either not fully developed or they are especially fragile. Children and older people are often overrepresented in traffic fatalities, especially as vulnerable road users. This course discusses the reasons pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, public transportation vehicles and non-motorised vehicles are involved in impacts that result in fatalities and serious injuries. The corrective actions, including education, enforcement and engineering actions that can be taken to reduce these impacts are also presented in detail.
This training is applicable for Road Agency Executives, Highway and Street Engineers, Traffic Management Professionals, Traffic Safety Professionals, Pedestrian Safety Advocates, Bicycle Safety Advocates, Motorcycle Safety Advocates, Law Enforcement and Research & Academia Personnel.
Instructor & Coordinators: Eng. Tawab Kazemi, Dr. Wael Alhajyaseen
Enquire for more information. Send us a message at training@irfofficial.org
Training Agenda
08:30-10:30 – Defining a Vulnerable Road User
Basic Requirements
- Understanding the Road Safety Challenge
- Understanding Road Users and How They Use the Infrastructure
- Urban Street Functions and Land Use Planning
- Road Safety Risk Assessment
- Traffic Conflict Analysis
- Crash Analysis
- AI Applications in Road Safety Diagnosis
- Risk Prioritisation and Decision-Making
Introduction to Road Infrastructure Safety Management
- Road Safety Impact Assessment
- Road Safety Audit
- Road Safety Inspection
- Black Spot Management Network
- Safety Management
- Safe Systems
11:00 – 12:30 – Public Perception of Different Road Users Culture and Attitudes
LUNCH
08:30 – 10:30 – Segment Issues and Countermeasures for Vulnerable Road Users – Bicyclists, Public Transit Users, Others
- Introduction to Safe Street Design Principles
- Self-Explaining Roads
- Designing for Safe Speeds
- Traffic Calming Strategies and Measures
- Street Design Elements – Including Features for Motorcyclists, Cyclists, Bus Stops, etc.
- Safe Intersection Design
- Pedestrian Crossings at Side Roads
- Applying the Safe System Approach to Street Design
11:00 – 12:30 – Case Studies
- Identifying Unsafe Street Features
- Interactive Team Exercise: Street Safety
LUNCH
13:00 – 16:00
- Status of Vulnerable Road User Safety in the State of Qatar
- Qatar Designer Checklist for School Zones
16:00 – 16:30 – Day 2 Wrap Up
08:30 – 10:30 – Design Aspects of Urban Streets for Safer Environments for Vulnerable Road Users
- Planning for Safer Streets
- Street Safety Implementation Strategies
- Tactical Urbanism and Temporary Interventions
- Delivering Safe System Improvements
- Monitoring and Evaluating Effectiveness, Including Baseline Data
- Setting Safety Targets (collision reduction versus KSI reduction and KPIs)
- Crash Modification Factors (CMFs) and Performance Measures
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Case Studies: Successful Safer Street Initiatives (e.g., New York, Dubai)
- Lessons Learned and Best Practices
LUNCH
13:30 – 16:00 – Group Discussions and Practical Applications
16:00 – 16:30 – Course Conclusions and Certificates
Instructors
Tawab Kazemi
Managing Director, 4E Road Safety & Transport Consultants
Tawab is a Road Safety Engineering practitioner with more than 29 years’ experience in multi-disciplinary transport, traffic and road safety projects, both for private and public sector clients in the UK, UAE, Qatar, KSA Ethiopia, Afghanistan and India. He is a qualified road safety auditor and member of UK’s Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA) and has carried out more than 1,000 international road safety audits on varying project sizes and types relating to roads, public transport (e.g. tram corridors), BRT systems, cycle facilities and pedestrian facilities.
Tawab has regularly conducted training on road safety audit and road safety engineering related topics. He has also contributed to development of several road safety related manuals and guidelines, e.g. road safety audit guidelines, road side design guidelines, for several countries, conducted training courses on road safety engineering, vulnerable road user safety, work zone safety. Tawab has carried out road safety audit of several pedestrian and cycle facilities and is passionate about promoting sustainable transport modes.
Dr. Eng. Wael Alhajyaseen
Associate Professor, Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Centre College of Engineering, Qatar University
Dr. Alhajyaseen is currently an associate research professor at Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Centrein the College of Engineering of Qatar University. He is specialised in traffic safety, road traffic control & operation, road user behaviour analysis and modeling, traffic simulator and VR applications, and Intelligent transportation systems.
Dr. Alhajyaseen has received the Research Excellence Award from the College of Engineering of Qatar University for the Academic Year 2018/2019.
Moreover, he received several regional and international awards for his contribution in the field of Traffic Engineering such as the International Yasoshima Yoshinosuke Prize provided by the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies in 2009. Dr. Alhajyaseen is the Chair of the “Traffic Safety Analysis and Policy” Special Interest Group SIG C4 of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS).
He is also Editor in the Case Studies on Transport Policy Journal (Elsevier), IATSS Research Journal (Elsevier), and the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (Taylor&Francis).
Currently, Dr. Alhajyaseen is member of several national committees led by the General Directorate of Traffic in the Ministry of Interior and the National Traffic Safety Committee aiming to develop road safety curriculum for schools and colleges within the country. Dr. Alhajyaseen is the lead developer and the manager of the Traffic Safety Professional Training Program at Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center, Qatar University.
Since 2016, more than 400 senior engineers and road safety practitioners from governmental institutions and engineering consultancy companies participated in the training program, not only from the State of Qatar but also from the region and the world.
Enrolment Fees
- Member rate: CHF 1,050
- Non-member rate: CHF 1,250
Enquiries: training@irfofficial.org
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the meaning of Vulnerable Users
- Comprehend why Vulnerable Users are involved in crashes
- Understand concept of urban street design considering the safety of pedestrians and cyclists
- Be exposed to countermeasures designed to reduce the number of Vulnerable User fatalities and serious injuries
- Learn how to develop educational campaigns designed to improve Vulnerable User safety
Partner Organisations
The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) provides a forum for the interchange of ideas among transport researchers, managers, policy makers, and educators from all over the world, from a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral perspective.
In addition to our Special Interest Groups, which facilitate research activities and the exchange of ideas in 42 topic areas, the WCTRS has a number of Task Forces which conduct research into emerging issues in Transport and aim to bridge gaps between research and policy-making.
- Road Safety Engineering: This track contains several courses tailored to highway and traffic engineers (in governmental and private sectors), planners, design consultants, and road contractors.
- Road Safety Audits: This track is tailored to those dealing with the development and evaluation of Road Safety Audits (in governmental and private sectors). The main objective of this track is to provide delegates with the needed knowledge and skills of conducting and evaluating road safety audits.
- Road Safety Management: This track is mainly designed for those responsible of developing road safety programmers and/or evaluating their effectiveness, as well as those involved in designing awareness campaigns and evaluating them (in governmental and private sectors). This training course aims to provide delegates with the knowledge of monitoring and evaluation of safety programs, the ability to plan and develop research designs that enable a robust quantification of the impact the road safety interventions, and the ability to identify, justify, develop, pilot and evaluate a road user safety campaign
