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The Roadway Safety Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program
Background Roadway safety professionals across the country are striving to improve the safety of our nation’s roads but face challenges as technologies emerge and new professionals enter the field. Overview
The Workforce Challenges Changing technologies – Knowledge of tools and technologies developed over the last few decades is needed for better safety analysis.
Changing workforce – Turnover and demands within the industry have created a need to educate and train new and practicing professionals.
Building Our Roadway Safety Workforce As an organizational response to these workforce challenges, the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Safety is creating a roadway safety professional capacity building program to help develop critical knowledge, skills, and abilities within the roadway safety workforce. Building on the work of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan and the Highway Safety Manual, the Office of Safety is creating this program to help transportation professionals better utilize new tools and technologies.
Program Objectives
Provide educational resources to highway safety professionals, managers, and elected officials
Develop knowledge, skills, and abilities in individuals at all levels to enable them to share a common understanding of highway safety
Ensure that safety expertise, technical assistance, training, education, and mentoring are available to federal, state, local, and private transportation professionals.
Products
- Safety Training Resource Guide CD-ROM
- Safety Training Resource Database (STRD)
- Roadway Safety PCB Brochure, Program Plan and Preliminary Needs Assessment, Course Lists
- What’s New Newsletters and updates
- New Training Courses
Support The RSPCB program works with TRB Highway Safety Workforce Development Task Force, The Transportation Curriculum Coordinating Council (TCCC), the National Highway Institute (NHI), the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), National LTAP Association (NLTAPA) and other partners to support such products as:
Current and future supply of and demand for experts in the field of highway safety, including specialty areas.
Existing education, recruitment, and professional development practices.
Current and future knowledge requirements, including core competencies.
Standard competencies and suggested curricula for highway technicians.
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Program Contact
Benjamin Gribbon
benjamin.gribbon@dot.gov
202-366-1809
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