PennTraff
Conferences, Seminars and Presentations

Seminars

PennTraff is probably best known for the training seminars on mini-roundabouts. This is a particular expertise of PennTraff since publication of Mini-roundabouts - Getting them right! PennTraff has run at least 70 training events mostly whole day seminars. Delegates bring some of their own sites into the seminar and they get examined in detail. Video and still images are shown along with plans of the site and this gives delegates an almost hands-on opportunity to discuss each site.

Attending conferences and making presentations at them is a key way to becoming established on the world road safety scene. It is very enlightening too to be able to see at first hand what the problems are in a particular place. It seems for example that the new capital of Nigeria, Abuja, was designed to operate with traffic signals at all key at-grade intersections. However, it became apparent that the electricity supply was not reliable enough for this and many signals are permanently "out" as their systems have failed with repeated power failures. The modern roundabout does not appear to have arrived in many countries in the world and this is a great shame because it is now the proven tool for safe intersection control in the vast majority of cases.