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New PROWAG Guidelines and Roundabouts

Description

This webinar is led by ITE Roundabouts Committee.

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Webinar Description:
In August 2023, the US Access Board released the Final Rule on Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG). The purpose of this guideline is to help federal, state, and local government bodies make their pedestrian facilities, such as sidewalks, crosswalks, shared-use paths, and on-street parking, accessible to people with disabilities. The new PROWAG Guidelines are expected to bring significant changes to the roadway network, including traffic control locations like roundabouts.

This webinar aims to provide an overview of the regulation and design changes brought by the new PROWAG Guidelines and their impact on the design of roundabouts.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the new PROWAG Guidelines
  • Explain the critical design considerations from the PROWAG Guidelines
  • Identify key design elements affecting pedestrian accommodations at roundabouts

Policies: Registration closes 30 minutes prior to start.
The webinar recording will be made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their PDH credit certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the PDH credit certificate opportunity is forfeited.

Contributors

  • Moderator: Joe Balskus, Director of Transportation Systems | VHB | Wethersfield, CT, United States

    Joe a senior management level technical leader with a broad background in the technical design and management of progressive transportation systems. He has worked for New England DOT’s on traffic signal systems, ITS, roadway/expressway reconstruction projects and traffic management plans. He has also worked on corridor studies for regional planning agencies and dozens of municipalities. He has prepared studies and master plans for the higher education and institutional and large commercial markets. He also understands the private development arena with having secured approvals for dozens of retail and mixed use and TOD projects across southern New England. He has led traffic engineering efforts for master planning efforts for large casinos in CT and MA.

  • Lee Rodegerdts, Principal Engineer | Kittelson & Associates | Portland, Oregon, United States

    Lee has more than 30 years of broad experience in traffic operations, traffic design, transportation planning, and transportation research and education. He is recognized internationally for his expertise on roundabouts and other intersection types, and he has guided intersection planning, analysis, design, and research projects throughout the United States and internationally. He has worked extensively on research and design to serve pedestrians of all abilities, particularly people who are blind or have low vision, including serving as co-author and engineering lead on several National Cooperative Highway Research Program projects for roundabouts, channelized turn lanes, and alternative and other intersection types. He served as a founding member of TRB’s Committee on Roundabouts and actively participates on the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices’ Roundabout Joint Task Force. Lee also served as chair of the Unsignalized Intersections Subcommittee of TRB’s Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service and has taught more than 70 professional short courses on highway capacity, intersections, roundabouts, and signal timing. Outside of work, Lee is an avid pianist and aspiring trombonist and loves capturing landscapes, cityscapes, and wildlife with his cameras.

  • Juliet Shoultz, Transportation Systems Engineer | US Access Board | Washington, DC, United States

    Juliet Shoultz is a Transportation Systems Engineer with the U.S Access Board where she serves as lead staff on accessible transportation. She has fifteen years of experience in transportation planning and engineering for state government, and extensive experience in Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) policy and standards development as well as ADA transition planning. Juliet has been an active participant on Transportation Research Board standing committees, and a member of a National Cooperative Highway Research Program panel.

  • Hillary Isebrands, P.E., PhD, Senior Roadway Safety and Design Engineer | FHWA | Eagle, Colorado, United States

    Hillary Isebrands, PE, PhD, has thrived in the transportation profession for over 25 years. Hillary has expertise as a leader, teacher, roadway design and safety engineer, and transportation researcher and specializes in rural areas. She is currently a Team Leader and Senior Roadway Safety Engineer with the FHWA Resource Center - Safety and Design Team. She specializes in technical assistance and instruction of roadway design and safety courses, including modern roundabouts, local and rural roads, public involvement, and complete streets. Hillary also oversees the cooperative agreement for the National Center for Excellence for Rural Road Safety. Prior to FHWA, Hillary worked as a researcher at the Iowa State University, Center for Transportation Research and Education and was a highway designer and project manager at an engineering consulting firm in Wisconsin. She strives every day to help people get home safely. Hillary is a Professional Engineer, a National Highway Institute (NHI) Certified Instructor, and the 2019 FHWA Engineer of the Year. She is the secretary of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Roundabouts and Other Intersections, and a Member of the TRB Rural Transportation Issues Coordinating Council. Hillary grew up in rural Wisconsin and now she and her family live in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

May 7, 2024
Tue 2:00 PM EDT

Duration 1H 30M

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