Road Safety in the Caribbean Region

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Overview

With this Professional Certificate Program, the student will be able to:

  • Get a good understanding of some of the main challenges and effective interventions for safe urban mobility.
  • Explore good practices and methodologies for safer road design for all users.
  • Understand the current state of road safety in the Caribbean region, its main challenges, and areas of action.

Based on the reality of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank, in this course, addresses relevant issues on road safety measures, public road users, traffic accidents, road safety management, safety road policies and road safety strategies, among others.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Road safety in the Caribbean region: institutions and data management

Learn about the current state of road safety in our region, its main challenges, and areas of action.



Course 2: Road safety in the Caribbean region: safe infrastructure

Learn and explore the good practices and methodologies for a safer road design for all users.



Course 3: Road safety in the Caribbean region: safe urban mobility

Learn about the vulnerable users and get a good understanding of some of the main challenges and effective interventions for safe urban mobility.



Taught by

Guirlaine Denis, Eugenia Rodrigues, Marisela Ponce de León, Sharon Inglefield, Edoardo Gianotti, Alejandro Furas, Marvin Gonzales, Claudia Franchesca de los Santos, Corina Puppo, Neil Pederson, Edgar Zamora, Mauricio Pineda Rivera, Elias Rubinstein, Rob McInerney, Julio Urzúa, Defny Geldorp, Brent Batson, Luis David Rojas Guerrero, Shannon Wip, Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Laura Ballesteros and Natalie Draisin