The Federal Highway Administration’s National Highway Institute (NHI) offers its new Overview of Roadside Safety (FHWA-NHI-380079) Web-based Training (WBT).
This virtual six hour course highlights the importance of roadside safety within the overall highway system. It focuses on strategies to prevent roadside crashes, enhance safety on our nation’s highways, and explore methods to recover from roadway departures or mitigate the severity of crashes that occur on the roadside. The training includes explanations at the fundamental level, covering both the behavioral and physical aspects of roadway departure safety countermeasures.
Through this training, participants will learn how to apply their agency’s standards, guidelines, and policies to common roadway and roadside needs. In addition, learners will apply a scientific process to roadside design, including application of technical concepts that support decision-making.
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The audience for the Overview of Roadside Safety WBT is the entry-level technical professional (e.g., designer, maintenance engineer, construction inspector) within a state transportation agency. Consequently, the course will have value for a wide range of other disciplines. For example, senior engineers can benefit from completing the course as a refresher, while supervisors can benefit by verifying their knowledge and passing on their enthusiasm for the topic to their employees. Consultant engineering staff, lawyers, and paralegals can also benefit from the training. Structured as an overview, other staff with no background in roadside safety such as environmental specialists who deal with roadside plantings and sound walls will also benefit from the course.
If you have questions about this NHI training, please contact NHI Customer Service at or 877-558-6873.