WDM USA Webinars:
THE ROAD AHEAD WEBINAR SERIES
Safer Roads as the “New Normal”:
New Perspectives and Tools in the post-COVID-19 World
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13TH 2020 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
After a brief decline in crashes in early 2020, the economic and social impact of Covid-19 has placed enormous stress on the already overstretched US road safety sector.
“Safer Roads as the ‘New Normal’” takes a look at the lessons learned from previous crises along with new tools and techniques to combat crashes and mitigate a return to the road safety status quo.
Join WDM USA and Robert Wunderlich, Director for the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas Transportation Institute, to discuss:
- How safety trends during the Covid-19 pandemic differ from the Great Recession
- Tools and techniques for identifying locations and systemic treatments with a high potential for safety improvement
- Evaluating and optimizing safety in project design
- Implementing a safe systems approach
Attendees will get practical guidance on evaluating and implementing safety improvements that make the most of available resources, as well as concrete steps to take so that safer roads become the “new normal.”
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Meet our Experts:
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Robert Wunderlich Robert Wunderlich is a Senior Research Engineer and the Director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, where he is responsible for leading the Center’s efforts in traffic safety research, policy analysis, education, and outreach. Over the past few years, much of Mr. Wunderlich’s work has focused on understanding the factors associated with traffic fatalities and injuries at the state and national levels and finding ways to lower them. He most recently led TTI’s work in assisting the Texas Department of Transportation with developing the Texas Strategic Highway Safety plan and the pilot project to incorporate data-driven safety analyses into decision-making in a TxDOT District. Mr. Wunderlich is a past president of ITE, a licensed professional engineer in Texas, a member of Transportation Research Board Transportation Safety Management Committee and the AASHTO Technical Committee on Geometric Design. |
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Ryland Potter A Fulbright Scholar with more than 15 years’ experience as an international consultant to corporate, non-profit, and government organizations, Ryland joined WDM USA in 2018 with the goal of working with transportation authorities to significantly reduce the 30,000+ annual fatalities on US roads. She regularly presents on how transportation authorities can proactively reduce risk and make roads safer for all road users, including through continuous friction measurement and pavement friction management. |