Training: CALTAP Leadership Academy

December 4th, 11th, & 18th, 2025, 9am – 11am PT

CALTAP is excited to announce the launch of its new Leadership Academy, presented virtually in collaboration with Access Human Potential.

This Academy consists of three 2-hour workshops designed to maximize student engagement by providing a blended learning experience of teaching, small group discussions, and case studies, with a focus on practical applications and real-world situations professionals face every day.

• December 4, 2025: Fundamentals of Leadership
• December 11, 2025: Fundamentals of Effective Communication
• December 18, 2025: Fundamentals of Project Management

Seating is limited - register now to secure your spot!

Webinar: Road Safety Enhancements

Data-Driven Strategies

January 20, 2025, 11:30am – 1:30pm PT

ARLTAP is hosting a free webinar on "Road Safety Enhancements: Data-Driven Strategies", showcasing how to use available data for applying safety treatments before crashes happen.

Target Audience:

• County Judges, Mayors, Planners, Supervisors, Decision Makers

Webinar: Road Safety Enhancements

Safety Countermeasures

January 22, 2025, 11:30am – 1:30pm PT



ARLTAP's free webinar on Road Safety Countermeasures showcases various approaches like enhanced delineation, rumble strips, high friction surface treatments, safety edge, roundabouts, road diets, and pedestrian crossings.

Target Audience:

• County Judges, Mayors, Planners, Supervisors, Decision Makers

Webinar: Reducing Roadway Departure Crashes

December 16-18, 2025, 7am – 9am PT



OHLTAP is hosting a free three-part series on Reducing Roadway Departure Crashes, the top cause of traffic fatalities in the US.

These webinars provide a current overview of various safety treatments and countermeasures that can be used to help reduce the frequency and severity of roadway departure crashes.

Instructor:

• Ron Eck, P.E., Professor Emeritus, West Virginia University

Webinar: Incorporating Unbonded

Post-Tensioning in Concrete Bridges

November 19, 2025, 10am – 11:30am PT



TRB's 90-minute webinar explores analytical and experimental evaluation of post-tensioned concrete bridge elements, including flexural & shear behavior, and provides design recommendations for the use of unbonded tendons.

Topics Covered:

• Behavior of structures incorporating unbonded tendons
• Flexure & shear strength of structures incorporating unbonded tendons
• Research on members with unbonded strands into practice

Webinar: State DOT Engagement

November 19, 2025, 10am - 11am PT

The Rails to Trails Conservancy is hosting a free webinar on “State DOT Engagement: Relationship-Building and Advocacy.”

During this webinar, RTC policy staff and featured guests will discuss the importance of building relationships with your state DOT when advocating transportation policy change at the federal level and explore the connection between the work of state DOTs and federal funding decisions.

Webinar: Active Interchange Management

November 19, 2025, 10am - 11:30am PT

NOCoE is hosting a free webinar on Active Interchange Management (AIM) to explore its purpose, strategies, and potential benefits.

Topics:

• Definition & benefits of AIM
• Strategies that are included in AIM
• Situations in which AIM may be applicable
• Methodology to determine appropriate AIM strategies

Webinar: Frontiers of Technology

Safer People, Safer Roads

December 9, 2025, 10am - 11:30am

Join The National Safety Council's Road to Zero Coalition for an insightful session featuring three innovative companies — WingDriver, Gaize and Transoft Solutions — who are leveraging video analytics, AI, and computer vision to tackle persistent challenges in road safety.

From combating distracted, drowsy and impaired driving to improving unsafe road design, these private-sector leaders will showcase how their technologies are helping to prevent serious crashes and save lives.

6th National RTAP Conference

December 7-10, 2025

CALTAP invites you to participate in the 6th National RTAP Conference, titled Wrangling Access & Mobility in Rural & Tribal Transit, to be held this year at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas.

Session Topics Include:

• Enhancing Mobility Management in Rural Areas
• The Quality of Life Impact of Rural Transit
• Understanding the Intercity Bus Industry
• Coordinated Approaches to Rural & Tribal Communities
• Practical Uses of AI in Transportation

2026 TRB Annual Meeting

January 11-15, 2026

TRB's Annual Meeting attracts thousands of transportation professionals from around the world with a program that covers all transportation modes. Its over 500 technical sessions and interactive workshops address current topics of interest to today's policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.

Session Topics Include:

• Operationalizing the Safe System Approach in U.S. Practice
• Pavement Markings for Automated Vehicles
• Data Sharing in Practice: Tools, Champions, and Case Studies
• Innovative Technologies to Assist with Bridge Management
• Advancements in Safety Analysis and Performance Measures

IRF Global R2T Conference & Exhibition

December 9-12, 2025

The International Road Federation's (IRF) Global Roads to Tomorrow Conference is the world’s premier event for road and mobility professionals.

Explore how digitization, artificial intelligence, and cutting-edge innovations are revolutionizing the roads and transportation sector.

R2T offers a dynamic platform for learning, collaboration, and forging influential partnerships, ensuring you stay at the forefront of a rapidly changing industry.

RSCP 2025: Traffic Safety & Health Culture

November 19, 2025, 11am – 1pm PT

NCRRS presents "Traffic Safety & Health Culture" as part of this season's Public Health Pathway of their Road Safety Champion Program.

Learn how health culture can enhance local and organizational traffic safety culture. This will include key elements and constructs of traffic safety culture and a culture of health, data considerations and measures indicating positive traffic safety cultures, ways to foster positive traffic safety culture and a culture of health in rural communities, and examples of culture of health and traffic safety culture partnerships in the U.S.

Other Upcoming Trainings & Events

Basics of Communications Planning | Dec 2, 2025, 7am–10:30am PT

Learn the basics of how to create a strategic communications plan

RSCP 2025: Data & Tools for Safety | Dec 2, 2025, 11am–1pm PT

Learn about the different types of data, data challenges for local agencies, and the tools available for applying the data you have for screening your network

Construction Inspection of Traffic Signals | Dec 2–4, 2025, 9am-12pm PT

This intensive online course provides in-depth training on the inspection and management of traffic signal construction

VMT Metrics Policy Application | Dec 3–4, 2025, 8am-5am PT

This course examines the origins of changing the transportation metric from level of service (LOS) to vehicle-miles-of-travel (VMT)

RSCP 2025: Partnerships for Safety | Dec 3, 2025, 10am–12pm PT

Learn how best-practice public health models implemented with partners can improve the reach and effectiveness of traffic safety programming

Long-Term Pavement Performance | Dec 4, 2025, 11am–12pm PT

The National Association of County Engineers is hosting a free webinar titled "Preservation: A Strategy for Long-Term Pavement Performance"

RSCP 2025: Crash Reporting | Dec 9, 2025, 11am–1pm PT

Learn the role of crash data collection and reporting in reducing severe crashes and how such reporting benefits from cross-coordination

2025 Ohio Roundabouts Conference | Dec 10, 2025, 9am–4:30pm PT

This 1-day conference brings together planners, engineers, elected officials and others involved with current or future Roundabouts in their communities

RSCP 2025: Transportation & Health | Dec 10, 2025, 11am–1pm PT

Learn how the pursuit of transportation access and safety is foundational to creating conditions where all people have the opportunity to thrive

Traffic Sign Retroreflectivity | Dec 11, 2025, 7am–11:30am PT

This two-part webinar on traffic sign retroreflectivity is aimed at roadway agency personnel who install and maintain signs

RSCP 2025: Safety of Responders on Roads | Dec 11, 2025, 11am–1pm PT

Learn about tools, recommendations, and materials available for first responders to ensure their safety while working on the side of the road

Funding Opportunity: REAP 2.0 Grants

SCAG will soon open applications for the second Notice of Funds Available for the Regional Early Action Planning Grants (REAP) 2.0-funded Lasting Affordability Program.

With $20M available, this competitive funding supports established housing trust and catalyst funds with innovative, ready-to-launch financing programs.

The call for applications opens Nov 17th, closes Jan 20th.

Funding Opportunity: Road to Zero Grants

NSC is accepting applications for the 2026 Road to Zero Community Traffic Safety Grants, with a total of $750,000 available in funding.

RTZ Traffic Safety grants support innovative approaches for implementing evidence-based countermeasures, adopting a Safe System approach, and performing necessary research to address traffic fatalities & serious injuries.

Open Funding Opportunities

Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants

A total of $34.5M is available for transportation planning projects under Caltrans' FY 2026-27 Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant Program

Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program

The FSP Grant Program is providing funding to improve American passenger rail assets by funding projects that enhance safety or expand existing service

Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund

FHWA has issued an amended NOFO for the 2025 TTPSF and is accepting applications until the deadline on January 15, 2026.

Research: EV Charge Management Strategies

The UC ITS white paper "Electric Vehicle Charge Management Strategies to Benefit the California Electricity Grid" explores the value for EV drivers and power companies incorporating EVs into the state’s electrical power grids.

Other Recordings, Research, & Reports

Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems

Read how to adequately account for the interaction between road users and the facilities, particularly users who are most vulnerable to crashes

Home Safely Podcast

The NCRRS's new podcast is designed to spotlight the stories, strategies, and solutions shaping rural road safety across America

Roving Reporter: The Deep Tunnel

APWA has renewed its Roving Reporter educational series for a fourth season, with new episodes coming quarterly

APWA Reporter Magazine: November 2025

The November 2025 issue of Reporter Magazine includes features on PWX 2025, Microplastics, and AI in Public Works

The Future of Stormwater Technology

Read how collaboration strengthens regulatory credibility, accelerates technology approval, and improves water quality

Census Data for Transportation Applications

This report is a comprehensive field guide for transportation practitioners on how to effectively utilize census data to support transportation analyses

Interim Revisions for Steel Member Guide

AASHTO has released the 2025 Interim Revisions to its "Guide Specifications for Internal Redundancy of Mechanically-Fastened Built-Up Steel Members"

ArcGIS Velocity

Esri's software enables organizations to harness the full power of geospatial technology for fleet management through real-time situational awareness

Simplifying Compliance & Reporting

Infotech explores how agencies can collaborate better through connected technology, consistent processes, and shared data.

Municipal Pothole Repair Program

KM International's publication serves as a guide to identify the pros and cons of performing pothole repairs internally as well as contracting them out.

** More Training Scheduled in December **

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