Highway Safety Analysis
August 6 and 7, 2025 – 9:30am to 12:30pm EST
PDHs AVAILABLE
6 Professional Development Hours can be granted for this course. No partial credit available. Attendees must attend at least 90% of the webinar to get 6 PDHs.
WHAT THIS IS ABOUT
Transportation engineers have developed a system to identify and address roadway safety problems. The Highway Safety Analysis workshop will assist local and state level agencies with relevant information on the stepwise procedure. The course’s focus is on the identification of hazardous locations and countermeasures for alleviating the safety hazards. Other tasks that are needed to accomplish this goal include the management and analysis of crash records and also a before-after analysis of the results of implemented countermeasures.
This course will prepare the participant to take charge of a roadway safety program either as an employee of an agency or as a consultant. The topics covered by this course are included in the scope of the examination for the PTOE certificate of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is for technicians, local government employees, consultants and engineers involved with roadway safety.
INSTRUCTOR
David Metzger – Transportation Planning Engineer (retired) – Bristol Metropolitan Planning Organization/ City of Bristol Tennessee
Mr. Metzger worked on a variety of issues for the Bristol Transportation Planning Organization, such a long-range transportation planning and modeling. In his role as traffic engineer for the City of Bristol, Tennessee, his duties included the collection of data for speeds, delay, and volumes for a variety of studies, such as setting safe posted speeds of curves, determining on-street parking limits and signage based on sight distance, collection of data for traffic signal warrant analyses, neighborhood traffic studies, and collection of field data to apply for long-range transportation planning. He was involved in the selection of countermeasures based on those data findings. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and an M.S. degree in Transportation Engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and retired after over 37 years of experience in Bristol. He is a Fellow of ITE.
REGISTRATION
This workshop is free for employees or elected officials of counties, cities, towns, and similar forms of local government. All other participants, including employees of the Tennessee Department of Transportation, must pay a registration fee of $120. Pre-registration is required for all participants. Paying registrations must be received at least one business day before the workshop to ensure that you will receive your Zoom invitation before the event begins.
All city or county employees register for FREE here.
For all other attendees (including TDOT employees) the registration fee is $120. Register here.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Due to schedule commitments from our instructors, the registration fee is not refundable if a registrant withdraws less than 48 hours before the workshop. If you cannot attend, you may designate a substitute participant for the workshop at no additional cost (please notify us in advance if possible). TTAP may reject registrations from participants who do not select the correct fee option. If you are unsure which option you should select, please contact us at TTAP@utk.edu.