The traffic signals consultancy JCT is adding a new Traffic Signal Design course to its package of professional training.

The Company is best known across the wider industry for its Traffic Signals Symposium each September, but does much more within signals, delivering the LinSig software package and providing training and specialist traffic signal related consultancy advice to local authorities.

The four day course, delivered by JCT’s John Nightingale alongside fellow industry consultant Chris Kennett, covers all the key aspects of the design of Permanent Traffic Signal Design and is structured to equip attendees the skills and knowledge they need to take a design from concept to deployment.

Along with comprehensive lectures and course materials there are structured exercises throughout allowing attendees to learn by doing. Comprehensive course notes and training materials are supplied along with access to training laptops with all associated software.

The first course will be run from 25-28 November in Leeds. More courses will be delivered as demand requires.

“The course requires a degree of prior knowledge including a reasonable understanding of Phases, Stages, Intergreens and calculation methodologies leading to Degree of Saturation and Practical Reserve Capacity,” John Nightingale explains. “These topics are comprehensively covered on the JCT Introduction to Traffic Signals and Basic Introduction to Traffic Signals courses. The course also makes use of LinSig software, so ideally attendees will have at least basic skills with LinSig. For any attendees who do not have basic signals knowledge and/or are not familiar with the LinSig software a free, one day online refresher training course will be offered in advance of the Traffic Signal Design course.”

The course content includes the following:

• Fundamental Principles of Traffic Signal Design
• Overview of TOPAS Standards & Controller Specification Forms
• Assessing and Managing Risk in Design, referencing CDM 2015
• Concept Design
• Basic Layouts and Geometry
• Pedestrian Crossing layouts and facilities
• Active Travel Infrastructure Design, referencing LTN 1/20
• Adaptive Control including an overview of MOVA and SCOOT
• Controller Logic
• High Speed Roads
• Shuttle Working
• Hardware, including Passive Safety
• Designing to meet visibility requirements
• Designing for Maintenance
• Phase Delays
• Parallel Stage Streaming
• Improving Junction Performance including Event and Time Based Linking and CLF
• Signalled Roundabout Design
• Major Design Project (in Teams)

Find out more here.