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Home > Highway Safety Training, Education, Curricula, Workforce Planning & Development

Workforce Planning & Development

• Supply and Demand for Highway Safety Professionals in the Public Sector
  Meanwhile, a TRB Special Committee for a Study of Supply and Demand for Highway Safety Professionals in the Public Sector has completed Special Report 289 – Building the Road Safety Profession in the Public Sector. The report indicates that the lack of professional recognition and comprehensive road safety education and training opportunities threatens the ability of agencies to build the knowledgeable and skilled road safety workforce needed to make safety advances. To address this need, the report recommends that AASHTO & GHSA forge a broad-based alliance of public, private, and educational organizations to champion the road safety profession. Contact Tom Menzies, TRB. The AASHTO Standing Committee on Highway Traffic Safety (SCOHTS) has recommended a specific NCHRP project to address these policy recommendations, starting with a Safety Workforce Summit. Contact Ben Gribbon, FHWA.

• Workforce Planning Resources

  • Gribbon, Ben. “Roadway Safety Training”, Inside LTAP, June 2003, Ben Gribbon.

  • ITE, Traffic Safety Toolbox. “Overview”, “Chapter 1: Safety Management”, “Chapter 22: Teaching Safety”, 1999.

  • Knapp, Keith; Donald Walker, Eugene Wilson. Challenges and Strategies for Local Road Safety Training and Technology Transfer.

  • USDOT FHWA

    • Transportation Workforce Planning and Professional Development Task Force http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/transworkforce/

    • Leiphart, Kristine Lee. “Pushing through the Safety Plateau”, Subtitle: To decrease fatalities, workforce skills must develop and adapt to new and changing transportation safety needs. Public Roads, January/February 2003.

    • Results from a Safety Survey: Workforce Development for Transportation Professionals, Office of Safety, August 2002.

    • “Proceedings of the Highway Safety Workforce Planning Workshop”, April 3-4, 2002; San Antonio TX, FHWA-SA-02-004. With ITE, TRB, AASHTO. and policy recommendations

    • Martin, Clark and Vicki Glenn. “Filling the Pipeline”, Public Roads, November/December, 2002.

    • Martin, Clark. “Help Wanted - Meeting the Need for Tomorrow's Transportation Work Force”, July/August, 2001

  • US General Accounting Office

    • Performance and Accountability Series: Major Management Challenges and Program Risks, “Department of Transportation.” January 2003.

  • Wilson, Eugene M. Wyoming Technology Transfer Center, University of Wyoming. “Teaching Safety”, Traffic Safety Toolbox, ITE, 1999; Chapter 23, pp 235-239.

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Program Contact

Benjamin Gribbon
benjamin.gribbon@dot.gov
202-366-1809