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June 10–12, 2020

Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center
College Station, Texas

Mark Your Calendars

We hope you are able to attend the 2020 Traffic Safety Conference in June. As in previous years, you will be able to earn CEUs during the event. More details will be posted soon.
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July 14–16, 2021

Join us for the virtual 2021 Traffic Safety Conference. This year’s virtual conference will bring together transportation safety stakeholders from all over the country. We will discuss various topics including how COVID has affected transportation safety. Sessions will also focus on high priority safety issues and innovative solutions to #EndTheStreak of daily fatal crashes in Texas. The agenda, interactive activities, and discussions will target engineering, enforcement, education and outreach, emergency responders, and community/stakeholder engagement. We’ll also highlight information and strategies relevant to employers.

Keynote Speakers

Nanda Srinivasan

Nanda Srinivasan is the Associate Administrator for Research and Program Development at NHTSA, where he oversees four offices that formulate, implement, and evaluate traffic safety programs. In this role, he is responsible for developing programs to increase seat belt use, to decrease impaired driving, and to improve the safety of motorcyclists, bicyclists, pedestrians, older drivers, and emergency medical services.

Mr. Srinivasan previously served as the Director of Statistical Methods and Research at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). He led the office in overseeing survey development, statistical methods, data integration, and quality assurance for all EIA products. Prior to his time at EIA, he served for more than six years as a Senior Program Officer at the Transportation Research Board. He oversaw many programs and projects related to transportation research, including the development of guidebooks for states and local agencies on transportation planning and policy. Prior to TRB, Mr. Srinivasan significantly contributed to the development of transportation data, including national resources such as the Census Transportation Planning Package and the National Household Transportation Survey. He holds a Masters in Transportation Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

C. Michael Lee

C. Michael Lee, P.E., serves as Director of Engineering and Safety Operations. Under the direction of the Chief Engineer, Lee oversees and coordinates TxDOT’s engineering operations.

Before joining TxDOT, Lee spent nine years as a water well contractor designing, estimating and supervising the construction and installation of residential, commercial, municipal and agricultural water wells, pumps and treatment systems.

Lee joined TxDOT in 1997 as an engineering assistant in Mount Pleasant and soon moved up to transportation engineer in the Marshall area office and then the Atlanta area office. In 2007, Lee became the area engineer in San Augustine, and later the Nacogdoches area engineer when the two offices combined in 2010.

In 2013, Lee was promoted to director of operations for the Paris District, and in 2014, promoted to Maintenance Division director.

Lee is a 1988 graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering.

Conference Overview

View the full conference program for more details.

Wednesday, July 14, 2021
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Pre-Conference Workshops
Thursday, July 15, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Opening Welcome Session & Keynote Speaker<!– Opening/Intro: Robert Wunderlich, Director, Center for Transportation Safety, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Keynote Speaker: Nanda Srinivasan, Associate Administrator for Research and Program Development, NHTSA–>
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Breakout Sessions <!– Roadway Safety Assessment Part I Employer Best Practices The Impact of COVID on Traffic Safety: National and Texas Perspectives –>
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 noon	Break
12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.	Networking Opportunity<!– Sorry we can’t provide you with a virtual meal, but we can provide you with enough time to grab some lunch and come back for an interactive networking opportunity with Ben Jackson of Ben Jackson More Than Magic.–>
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Breakout Sessions <!– Roadway Safety Assessment Part II Crashes: The Emergency Responder Experience Pivoting Traffic Safety in the Time of COVID –>
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Breakout Sessions <!– Risky Driving – Regaining Momentum and Saving Lives Committee Meeting for Dr. Scott Parr Venture out Safely: Virtual Walking Tour Improving Traffic Safety with Data Innovations –>
Friday, July 16, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Opening Session & Keynote Speaker<!– Opening/Intro: Robert Wunderlich, Director, Center for Transportation Safety, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Keynote Speaker: C. Michael Lee, Director of Engineering and Safety Operations, TxDOT–>
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Breakout Session <!– Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan: Engaging Stakeholders in the 2022 Update –>
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Break
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Breakout Sessions <!– Was Romain Grosjean Speeding? Linking It All Together: Data Integration for Safety Research and Outreach A Tale of Two Cities: The Impact of SNOVID on Traffic Safety in Two Texas Cities –>

Due to complications associated with COVID-19, we are not able to provide opportunities to earn TCOLE credits online.

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Pre-Conference Workshops

Creating Successful Stakeholder Engagement
Saving lives on our roads requires all of us to work together. Building coalitions and networking strengthens our ability to accomplish this goal. When people and organizations come together, share ideas that work and implement action, positive, long-term change can result. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration brings together several examples and strategies of how we are better together.
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Data, Strategic Planning Driving Success in Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office’s STEP Program
Changes to TxDOT’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program in 2018 were designed to help law enforcement develop and enhance data-driven traffic-enforcement and social-harm reduction strategies. While many STEP agencies have enjoyed success since the changes, the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office (TGCSO) has enjoyed success in both reducing crashes at previous trouble spots and increasing DWI and other arrests, as well as an increase in deputies wanting to participate in the program. TGCSO Sgt. Gary Cole will discuss the keys to his STEP program’s success, followed by a presentation of new traffic-program-related data-collection tools from LEADRS (Law Enforcement Data Recording System), and Texas Law Enforcement Liaison Michael Munson will discuss simple data hygiene strategies that every agency can use to begin building toward and enhance success in using data to reduce social harms in their communities.

Finding the Needles in the Haystack – Using Safety Analysis Tools to Improve Safety
In order to implement safety countermeasures, it’s critical to know what locations have the greatest potential for safety improvement. This can be a daunting task, as crashes are often spread over the entire network, and may not conveniently concentrate themselves, and these locations may or may not be the locations with the most crashes.

The purpose of this session is to familiarize you with practical, user-friendly tools that can help you identify locations where the potential for safety improvement is greatest. The instructors will focus on the TxDOT safety scoring tools, safety benchmarking, systemic tools for addressing unconcentrated crash types (such as pedestrian crashes), estimation tools for pedestrian crossings, intersections, and roadway segments (freeway and non-freeway) Several of the tools incorporate both vehicular and pedestrian crashes. The emphasis will be on spreadsheet-based tools that are straightforward to use, and freely available.

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Registration and Payment Information

!––Online registration will be available until Friday, July 9, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. (CST). Same day, credit card-only registrations will be available from 7:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 14 – 9:00 a.m., Friday, July 16. You will receive your attendance link within 30 minutes of registration.

Pre-registration is recommended; this will ensure the attendance link is sent in a timely manner.

Participant Type	Fee
Regular Participant	$50
TTI Employee or Speaker	$0
TxDOT Employee	$50

To register for this conference, use our online registration form. Please make your check or money order payable to TTI-Safety2021. Event Management & Planning (EM&P) also accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express credit cards for payment. If paying by check or money order, you may register online and then mail your payment to EM&P. EM&P cannot invoice; therefore, payment of the conference registration fee must be received prior to admission to the conference. NO PURCHASE ORDERS ACCEPTED.

For payment processing purposes, the vendor identification number for TTI EM&P is 37277277275000. The federal identification number is 74-2270624.

Cancellations

There are no cancellations for this event, but you may transfer your registration to another person if you are unable to attend. Please send transfer requests to [email protected] by July 9, 2021.

For More Information

Program Content

Christie Havemann
Administrative Coordinator
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 317-2513
[email protected]

Registration!– & Exhibits–

Event Management & Planning
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 317-2222
[email protected]

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