Listed are our currently scheduled courses. To register for a course simply fill out our registration form. If you don't see a course you'd like to take scheduled, you can request training. For more information on Professional Developmental Hours (PDH's) please visit our FAQ page. 

Speed Management - Techniques for Reducing Speed

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: September 19, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm

The Speed Management One-day Course reviews the relationship between speeding and fatalities as well as injury accidents. As part of the Course the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the Query System are demonstrated and incorporated into fatal crash analysis to determine what works for reducing the crash rate. An important issue that is included in the course is how to establish aspeed limit. The free online FHWA USLIMITS2 expert system for developing recommended speed limits for both urban and rural areas is demonstrated and incorporated in a class exercise. A series of lectures are given to establish a toolbox of techniques for reducing fatal and injury crashes. The class is presented with a problem and asked to establish their safety program.
When discussing the toolbox of safety techniques, the participants are presented with various traffic calming techniques. The techniques are discussed in terms of safety, speed,diversion, and cost effectiveness.

Course Outline

8:15 Introduction

8:45 Speeding Characteristics

9:30 Break

9:45 Establishing a Speed Limit

10:00 US LIMITS2 Class Exercise

10:30 Break

10:45 Speed Related Roadway Departures

11:45 Lunch

12:30 Fatality Analysis Reporting System Class Exercise

1:15 Speed Related Intersection Fatalities

2:00 Break

2:15 Pedestrian and Bicycle Speeding Fatalities

3:15 Traffic Calming Techniques to Control Speed

4:00 Adjourn

Professional Development Hours: 6.0
Registration Fee: This 6-hour virtual classroom course has a $55 registration fee.

Understanding Design and Maintenance for Roads for Elected Officials

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: September 21, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm

This course instructed by Ed Stellfox is the first step in understanding the problems that a Municipal Road department faces on a daily basis. This course designed for elected officials conveys an understanding of design and maintenance of municipal roads that will make your life easier when dealing with Road Superintendents, Public Works Directors, Foremen, etc. It also gives elected officials a better understanding of what is involved in a road and street budget. This is an excellent course for: Municipal elected/appointed officials, road commissioners, supervisors, and city or town managers.

Professional Development Hours: 6.0.
Registration Fee: This 6-hour virtual classroom course has a $55 registration fee.

Street Access Design and Driveway Location

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: September 26, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm

This one-day course will include:

1. Discuss the impact of access management on highway safety and operations.
2. List benefits of access management.
3. Discuss typical roadway access challenges in your area.
4. Choosing access management techniques to mitigate roadway challenges.
5. Discuss Maryland’s access management guidelines and designs.

Who should attend:

• Designers, planners, and safety city, county,  State, and consultant staff.

Professional Development Hours: 6.0
Registration Fee: This 6-hour virtual classroom course has a $55 registration fee.

Asphalt Roads Common Maintenance Problems

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: September 28, 2023
Time: 8:30am-12:30pm

Municipal employees with road maintenance responsibilities should understand the causes of common maintenance problems on asphalt roads and be  familiar with proper repair materials and methods. This course instructed by Ed Stellfox discusses causes and repair procedures for common problems such as cracking, potholes, rutting, corrugations, etc. The procedures cover materials, equipment, and techniques for lasting repairs. Also included, a brief discussion of surface treatment.

Professional Development Hours: 4.0.
Registration Fees: This course has a $40 registration fee per participant.

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Basic Drainage

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: October 5, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm

This course instructed by Ed Stellfox emphasizes the importance of good drainage with discussions of water and its effects on roads, problems caused by improper drainage, and ways to handle these problems. It covers types of drainage facilities, ranging from ditches, culverts, subdrains, inlets and end structures. Their uses, materials, installation and maintenance as well as erosion control are addressed. It also introduces geosynthetic drainage applications. The following topics will be covered: importance of drainage, characteristics of water, system maintenance, drainage principles, surface and subsurface drainage, ditches, driveways, drainage culverts – materials and placement, headwalls, endwalls and inlets, erosion control, and geosynthetics in drainage.

Professional Development Hours: 6.0
Registration Fees: This course has a $55 registration fee per participant.

Gravel Road Maintenance

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: October 12, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm

This course instructed by Ed Stellfox addresses basic maintenance techniques for unpaved and gravel roads. Topics include road materials, blading or dragging, reshaping or regrading for proper crown, regraveling, stabilization or full-depth reclamation, and dust control, with an introduction to road management techniques.

Professional Development Hours: 6.0
Registration Fees: This course has a $55 registration fee per participant.

Site Impact Analysis

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: October 17, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm

This course will cover the ITE Trip Generation Report and ITE’s procedure for conducting a traffic impact study.  The content includes discussions on site impact methodology, development of background traffic, evaluation of existing and future conditions, trip generation rates, trip distribution, mode split, traffic assignment, and impact mitigation strategies.  Special attention is paid to trip generation and includes how to use the ITE tables, pass-by trips, and internal capture.  The completion of the course will increase the participants understanding of traffic impact studies.  

This course is designed for transportation engineers, traffic engineers, and planners concerned about the impacts of site impact development. 

Professional Development Hours: 6.0.
Registration Fees: This course has a $55 registration fee per participant.

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Traffic Signs

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: October 19, 2023
Time: 8:30am-12:30pm

This half-day course instructed by Ed Stellfox  will cover the regulations and guidelines for traffic signs including; regulatory signs, warning signs, and guide signs. A review of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) will also be covered. An in depth discussion of sign examples, installation and maintenance, as well as sign management will be covered.

Professional Development Hours: 4.0.
Registration Fee: This 4-hour virtual classroom course has a $40 registration fee.

Traffic Engineering Fundamentals

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: November 7-8 and November 14-15, 2023
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm

This course instructed by Dane Ismart and Juan M. Morales, P.E. condenses what was the five-day Traffic Engineering Short Course into a new four-day course which is now split into two days one week and two days the next week - participants must attend all four days.

Agenda Day One:

• Introduction
• Traffic Engineering Terms and Design Year Traffic
• Break
• Site Impact Analysis
• Lunch
• Safety Principles and Crash Principles
• Break
• Principles of Access Management

Agenda Day Two:

• Intersection Analysis and Geometrics
• Break
• Signal Timing
• Lunch
• Arterial and Freeway Analysis
• Break
• MUTCD

Agenda Day Three:

• Roundabout Basics
• Break
• ITS Overview
• Break
• Traffic Calming
• Lunch
• Pedestrian Safety
• Break
• ADA Accessibility

Agenda Day Four:

• Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
• Break
• Temporary Traffic Control (TTC) Standards and Guidelines
• Break
• Component Parts of a TTC Zone
• Lunch
• Temporary Traffic Control Devices
• Break
• Positive Protection

Audience: This course is geared towards anyone with an engineering background and/or traffic engineering responsibilities in a related field. Also junior level traffic engineers, transportation planners, highway designers and city/county engineers.

Professional Development Hours: 24.0.
Registration Fee: This 24-hour virtual classroom course has a $220 registration fee.

Winter Maintenance

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: November 9, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:00pm

This course covers all aspects of winter operations- planning and organizing, methods of snow and ice control, salt usage, and winter equipment maintenance. Instructed by Ed Stellfox this lesson will include usage of snow maps, formal snow plans, snow plow and salt spreader operation. This course in intended for municipal officials, road commissioners, supervisors, superintendents, publics works and maintenance personnel, equipment operators, and city or town managers.

Professional Development Hours: 6.0.
Registration Fee: This 6-hour virtual classroom course has a $55 registration fee.

Road Surface Management

Location: Virtual Classroom
Date: December 5, 2023
Time: 8:30am-3:00pm

This course instructed by Ed Stellfox provides participants with the basic concepts of road surface management including inventory, distress identification, condition survey, strategies, programs, budgets, and field surveys. A Road Surface Management Systems software demonstration will also be conducted during this course.

Professional Development Hours: 6.0.
Registration Fee: This 6-hour virtual classroom course has a $55 registration fee.

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