Webinar: Beyond Engineering – How Planners Can Leverage Systems Thinking for Safer Rural Roads
Date: December 17, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PT
Cost: Free 
Continuing Education Credits: Unknown
Organization: National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation

Do you wish you could develop stronger partnerships to improve traffic safety? Have better alignment with partners and community members on projects? Join Jay Otto with Banyan Collaborative and learn about 3 foundational mindsets that lead to greater effectiveness in improving roadway safety (and other issues as well!). Also, you will learn a working definition of traffic safety culture, ideas about working with “traditional engineers / problem solvers,” and insights on the Safe System Approach and systems thinking. The Federal Highway Administration describes traffic safety culture as “shared values, actions, and behaviors that demonstrate a commitment to safety over competing goals and demands.”