Safe Cycling Infrastructure for Streets & Roads - November 2023

This course is delivered in four modules over a period of two weeks. Commences on Wednesday 1 November 2023 and concludes on Friday 10 November 2023.

This novel training will provide participants experiential learning on a variety of cycling infrastructure treatments and how they impact on cyclist safety. Attendees will be provided with 360° footage that highlights a variety of cycling treatments both on and off-road. The 360° footage will demonstrate best-practice cycling infrastructure. Moreover, the workshop sessions will sharpen attendees’ skills in identifying hazards and providing solutions for cycling infrastructure. Experienced facilitators will provide insight and communicate what is ‘best practice’ for delivering cycling infrastructure.

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COURSE STRUCTURE (all times in AUSTRALIAN EASTERN DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME - AEDT)

Module 1 - Off road cycling facilities

Wednesday 1 November 2023 - 12.00pm - 2:00pm AEDT

• Shared path design
• Shared path crossing roads
• Shared path intersecting other shared paths
• Welcome pack delivered to your door, includes exercises • Live interactive webinar including spot quizzes (2 hours) • Participant review 360° footage • Quiz questionnaire (10 minutes)

Module 2 - On road cycling facilities

Friday 3 November 2023 - 12.00pm - 2:00pm AEDT

• Protected bicycle lane design
• On-road bicycle lanes
• Mixed traffic environment
• Live interactive webinar including spot quizzes (2 hours) • Participant review 360° footage • Cycle lane risk identification exercise (30 minutes)

Module 3 - Intersection treatments

Wednesday 8 November 2023 - 12.00pm - 2:00pm AEDT

• Protected intersections
• Signalised intersections
• Live interactive webinar including spot quizzes (2 hours) • Participant review 360° footage • Quiz questionnaire (10 minutes)

Module 4 - Roundabouts

Friday 10 November 2023 - 12.00pm - 2:00pm AEDT

• Protected roundabouts
• Multi lane roundabouts
• Local roundabouts
• Live interactive webinar including spot quizzes (2 hours) • Participant review 360° footage • Assignment (2 hours)

THIS INTERACTIVE PROGRAM GIVES YOU:

• Learning from home, no need to travel
• Complete the field exercise near your home - you choose your site
• Phone & email support throughout the program
• Supportive peer learning group via chat functionality
• Engaging content including live modules, quizzes, games, 360° footage and prizes to keep you motivated
• Education pack delivered to your door

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Strengthen participants' ability to reliably and effectively:

• Appraise whether infrastructure used by cyclists is safe
• Identify specific features of infrastructure which raise safety risk for cyclists
• Review best practice infrastructure
• Gain personal user experience of the safety risks faced by cyclists

SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION

In order to successfully complete this program and gain your certificate you must:

• Attend a minimum of 3 out of 4 live webinars (all webinars are recorded and available to review), and view any not attended.
• Satisfactory completion of all set tasks - including quizzes, exercises/assignments
• Achieve an average 80% pass mark on all quizzes (up to three attempts with one-on-one coaching available if required)

TRAINERS

Max McCardel (BEng)

Senior Projects Engineer, Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd

Max is a senior project engineer with a wealth of hands-on, road safety engineering experience. Max is a keen commuter and recreational cyclist and keeps up to date with best practice for designing and delivering cycling infrastructure. Max also runs the ‘Cycling Auditor Training Course’ which is aimed at sharpening road safety practitioner’s skills in identifying and providing solutions for cyclist safety.

Max is a Senior Road Safety Auditor and Safe System Assessor. At VicRoads, Max developed, reviewed and prioritised projects for the Safe System Road Infrastructure Program. Max is regularly involved in providing specialist advice for improving vulnerable road user safety. Max is acutely aware of the raft of safety interventions available to ameliorate cyclist safety – and the applications / limitations associated with these interventions.

Kenn Beer (BEng (Hons), RPEng, RPEQ, MPIA)

Principal Engineer, Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd

Kenn has been a road safety practitioner for almost 20 years and is a qualified road safety engineer, Senior Road Safety Auditor, transport planner, trainer and assessor. He is one of Australia’s most active Safe System practitioners having undertaken over 100 major Safe System Assessments. Kenn also delivers training on Safe System Principles and Assessments nation-wide and was the architect of the business case for the TAC’s $75million investment in cyclist safety.

WHO SHOULD REGISTER?

• Traffic designers, planners & engineers
• Existing certified auditors wanting to refresh and extend capabilities in the growing risk area of cyclist safety
• Personnel involved in developing cycling projects
• Road safety practitioners