There are currently important needs in Quebec, Canada for continuing education training in the field of road safety, especially among professionalsworking in cities and in municipalities in Quebec, in the private sector,in the police force, etc. In order to respond to these needs, the AQTR, working in cooperation with the Ministere des Transports du Quebec and manyother partners, has developed a continuing education training program forroad safety, based on the new PIARC road safety manual. The strategy set forth is to develop high level training programs that foster a common knowledge base of road safety. The goal is to create innovative didactical tools that are used to impart the technical knowledge indexed in the PIARC manual. The participation and consensus of the key stakeholders of the sector, assembled in committees, form the basis of the instructional method. This approach allows the cooperative development of training programs with meaningful content that are adapted to the specific context and true needs of the sector. The challenge for these committees is to define an efficient and motivating process to: design a training development model that ensures consistency between stated needs and the competencies to be developed;define, based on the PIARC manual, training content that is uniform and explicit; identify professional issues related to the different functions and tasks to be performed; and establish common competencies and a common view for all stakeholders. The first deliverables of this approach are two training program courses currently available in Quebec. The objective of the first training program course, entitled "Overview of Road Safety", is to teach the basic concepts of road safety. This training course is intended for elected officials, engineers, technicians, urban planners, road network managers, police officers, etc. The second training course, "Road Infrastructure Analysis Tools" focuses more specifically on the technical theory contained in the manual. The intended clientele is primarily engineers and technicians who are at a higher technical level. These training program courses are easily adaptable for different clienteles. In Quebec, these training program courses are available on a regular basis and are geared toward the whole range of stakeholders in road safety. The innovative and interactive instructional strategy invites participants to transfer the knowledge learned to their work. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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