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IRF executive seminar series - Safer Roads by Design Across Six Continents

The preliminary programme for the IRF Road Safety Across Six Continents Seminar is now available, and space is limited. The seminar takes place 2-12 December 2012 at Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida, USA, and is one of the most comprehensive road safety training programs in the world. Experts from a variety of countries will present best practices and state of the art technologies in roadside safety, work zone safety, vulnerable user safety, traffic management and road safety audits over a
November 9, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
The preliminary programme for the IRF Road Safety Across Six Continents Seminar is now available, and space is limited.
 
The seminar takes place 2-12 December 2012 at Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida, USA, and is one of the most comprehensive road safety training programs in the world.  Experts from a variety of countries will present best practices and state of the art technologies in roadside safety, work zone safety, vulnerable user safety, traffic management and road safety audits over a ten day period.  The purpose of this training programme is to help road authorities understand what can be done to help them meet their Decade of Action commitment to reduce fatalities by fifty percent by 2020.

Experts include:

  • Michael Dreznes, 2015 International Road Federation
  • John R Blinstrub, JRB Roadside Safety
  • Mark Bloschock
  • Essam Radwan, Interim Chair, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida
  • K Craig Allred
  • David Krahulec, Vice President and COO of Horizon Signal Technologies
  • Dane Ismart
  • Bill Peterson
  • Eddie Wren
  • Joseph S Toole
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