Fundamentals of Traffic Control - (State/Federal/Private Agencies ONLY)

Workshop | This workshop is completed

Zoom Knoxville, TN 37996-4133 United States
Workshop/Webinar Online
5/13/2025-5/14/2025
9:30 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Tue Wed
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$120.00

Fundamentals of Traffic Control - (State/Federal/Private Agencies ONLY)

Workshop | This workshop is completed

WHAT THIS IS ABOUT

Traffic control devices come in many forms. From traffic signals to stop signs, pavement markings to delineators, traffic control devices allow officials to relay information to drivers that is essential to safe and efficient operation of the transportation system. This course will focus not only on common types of traffic control devices, but also on the underlying principles responsible for their effectiveness. Participants will examine concepts such as perception-reaction time, advance placement distance, stop sign and nighttime visibility. The workshop will examine the link between these key traffic control concepts and common engineering standards such as the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is for technicians, supervisors, engineers, and others with responsibility for the selection and implementation of signs, signals, markings, and delineators on public roadways.

  • PDHs AVAILABLE

    6 Professional Development Hours can be granted for this course. No partial credit available. Attendees must attend at least 90% of the workshop to get 6 PDHs.

    CANCELLATION POLICY

    Due to schedule and travel commitments for our instructors, staff members, and training facilities, the registration fee is not refundable if a registrant withdraws less than 48 hours before the workshop. If you cannot attend, you may send a substitute participant to the workshop at no additional cost (please notify us in advance if possible).

    This workshop may be canceled due to low enrollment. If this situation occurs, TTAP will provide notification of cancellation due to low enrollment at least 48 hours before the scheduled start of the workshop, and all pre-paid registration fees will be refunded in full or applied to another scheduled workshop. If the workshop must be cancelled or postponed due to inclement weather or other circumstances beyond our control, TTAP will provide notification to all registered participants at the earliest possible time.

Dave Metzger

Mr. Metzger worked on a variety of issues for the Bristol Transportation Planning Organization, such a long-range transportation planning and modeling. In his role as traffic engineer for the City of Bristol, his duties included the collection and analysis of speed, delay, volume, crash, and other field data for a variety of studies, such as posting safe speeds of curves, determining on-street parking limits and signage based on sight distance, traffic signal warrant analyses, neighborhood traffic issues, traffic control device installation, and statistical crash analyses.  He was also involved in the selection and installation of countermeasures based on those data findings. His crash analyses have been used by multiple police departments to fulfill their accreditation needs for crash analysis.  He was also responsible for coordination of traffic operations for special events, such as 5K runs, parades, music festivals, and over 200 races and the Battle of Bristol (recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest crowd for a college football game) at Bristol Motor Speedway, often over multiple jurisdictions.  He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and an M.S. degree in Transportation Engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and retired after over 37 years of experience in Bristol, with Professional Engineer registration in Tennessee and Virginia. He is a Fellow of ITE.  He has served as an instructor for TTAP since 2012.