Road Infrastructure: Designing for Safety

Monday, March 10, 2025

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM PT

Location: 101

Moderator(s)

Bruce Hamilton, MPH

Executive Director
Roadway Safety Foundation
Washington, District of Columbia

Speaker(s)

TM

Tom Mattson, PE

Director of Public Works
Humboldt County
Arystan Massanov, Master Degree

President
International Road Safety Institute

Slides
Tamara Gart, P.E.

Engineering Operations Branch Manager
TxDOT
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas

Slides

Safe road infrastructure is crucial for ensuring safety. Through a Safe System Approach, states and communities focus on reducing the severity of crashes by designing and managing road systems to minimize conflicts with an understanding that road users make mistakes, but those mistakes should not result in death or serious injury. Gain practical insights through an interaction discussion into the principles and practices of safe road infrastructure design and management and opportunities for federal funding.