The PEDSAFE – BIKESAFE webinar will demonstrate a free, expert, online system to help you articulate and evaluate bike/ped safety solutions and streamline the adoption and implementation process in your community. The PEDSAFE – BIKESAFE system includes case studies that illustrate treatments implemented in communities throughout the United States.

Use this webinar to jump start your use of the PEDSAFE – BIKESAFE system. Learn how to refine your selection of treatments on the basis of site characteristics, such as geometric features and operating conditions, and the type of safety problem or desired behavioral change. Gain knowledge about engineering countermeasures, supplemental enforcement activities and educational approaches to make your community more walkable and bicycle-friendly. Although PEDSAFE – BIKESAFE is intended primarily for engineers, planners, safety professionals, and decision-makers, it has been used successfully by educators, public health professionals, and citizens for identifying problems and recommending solutions for their communities.

PEDSAFE – BIKESAFE was developed for the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. This system is hosted on the websites of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (http://www.walkinginfo.org/pedsafe/background.cfm and http://www.bicyclinginfo.org/bikesafe/about.cfm).

Webinar presenters from the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center are Charles V. Zegeer, Associate Director, and Libby Thomas, Research Associate.