The Roadway Safety Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program

  • Background
    Roadway safety professionals across the country are striving to improve the safety of our nation’s roads but face challenges as technologies emerge and new professionals enter the field. Overview

  • The Workforce Challenges
    Changing technologies – Knowledge of tools and technologies developed over the last few decades is needed for better safety analysis.

    Changing workforce – Turnover and demands within the industry have created a need to educate and train new and practicing professionals.

  • Building Our Roadway Safety Workforce
    As an organizational response to these workforce challenges, the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Safety is creating a roadway safety professional capacity building program to help develop critical knowledge, skills, and abilities within the roadway safety workforce. Building on the work of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan and the Highway Safety Manual, the Office of Safety is creating this program to help transportation professionals better utilize new tools and technologies.

  • Program Objectives

    • Provide educational resources to highway safety professionals, managers, and elected officials

    • Develop knowledge, skills, and abilities in individuals at all levels to enable them to share a common understanding of highway safety

    • Ensure that safety expertise, technical assistance, training, education, and mentoring are available to federal, state, local, and private transportation professionals.

  • Products

    1. Safety Training Resource Guide CD-ROM
    2. Safety Training Resource Database (STRD)
    3. Roadway Safety PCB Brochure, Program Plan and Preliminary Needs Assessment, Course Lists
    4. What’s New Newsletters and updates
    5. New Training Courses

  • Support
    The RSPCB program works with TRB Highway Safety Workforce Development Task Force, The Transportation Curriculum Coordinating Council (TCCC), the National Highway Institute (NHI), the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), National LTAP Association (NLTAPA) and other partners to support such products as:

    1. Current and future supply of and demand for experts in the field of highway safety, including specialty areas.

    2. Existing education, recruitment, and professional development practices.

    3. Current and future knowledge requirements, including core competencies.

    4. Standard competencies and suggested curricula for highway technicians.

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Program Contact

Benjamin Gribbon

202-366-1809