Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon

Programme Overview

Road authorities across developing economies face critical challenges in reducing road traffic fatalities along regional transport corridors.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ This five-day training programme in Lisbon delivers an engineering-led approach to road safety, aligning technical interventions with international Safe System principles. Participants examine empirical crash investigation methods, infrastructure assessment standards, and institutional frameworks necessary to reduce fatal and serious injuries on high-risk rural and peri-urban networks.

The curriculum provides practical instruction in proactive road safety audits, systematic hazardous location identification, and targeted civil engineering countermeasures. Delegates engage with international design references, including the World Road Association (PIARC) guidelines and iRAP methodologies. Through technical lectures and applied design exercises, participants learn to prioritise infrastructure investments that address high-severity crash risks on secondary roads, vulnerable road user interfaces, and complex geometric alignments.

Delivered by experienced transport practitioners, this course equips public sector engineers and planners with ready-to-implement remedial toolkits. Lisbon offers a compelling context for examining urban and peri-urban safety interventions, multi-modal integration, and retrofitted road layouts. Attendees will build capacity to manage donor-funded infrastructure safety components, commission professional safety reviews, and formulate data-driven national or provincial road remediation programmes.

Public transport agencies and regional road departments are increasingly accountable for achieving ambitious road safety targets embedded in donor-financed investments.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ The implementation of major corridor upgrades, including works aligned with the Mozambique Safer Roads for Socio-Economic Integration Programme, requires institutional capacity to design out death and serious injury. Integrating robust blackspot remediation, Safe System road engineering, and vulnerable road user safeguards is urgently required to ensure capital investments produce durable social and economic returns across national and regional corridors.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Lisbon, Portugal, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Safe System core principles: human fallibility and physical biomechanical tolerance limits
• National and regional crash data systems: quality, spatial coding, and under-reporting challenges
• Statistical methods for identifying hazardous locations, cluster sites, and mass action corridors
• Crash tree analysis and collision diagram development for rural and peri-urban road environments
• Case study review: diagnosing systemic corridor risks using primary collision records
• Road Safety Audit (RSA) stages: feasibility, preliminary design, detailed design, and pre-opening
• Distinction between engineering design standard compliance and intrinsic infrastructure safety
• Safe System Audit methodologies aligned with PIARC guidelines and iRAP baseline star ratings
• Infrastructure planning and prioritisation
• Project appraisal and business cases
• Financing options and public-private partnerships
• Procurement and contracting for works

It is designed for highway authority civil engineers and geometric designers, regional transport planners and municipal infrastructure managers, road safety specialists and corridor performance monitors and others who want practical, current skills in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships.

The Growing Importance of Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon

Infrastructure and urban services shape growth, health and opportunity. Projects are large, complex and long-lived, and weaknesses in planning, financing or delivery are costly to fix later.

Governments increasingly combine public investment, partnerships with the private sector and new technologies. Teams who can plan, appraise, procure and manage these investments deliver better assets and services.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Plan and prioritise infrastructure investments
• Appraise projects and prepare business cases
• Choose financing and delivery models
• Supervise works for time, cost and quality
• Manage assets over their life

Strong infrastructure, urban development and partnerships systems help organisations:

• Select the right investments
• Deliver projects on time and on budget
• Attract financing and partners
• Keep assets working for longer

This Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Highway authority civil engineers and geometric designers
• Regional transport planners and municipal infrastructure managers
• Road safety specialists and corridor performance monitors
• Project management unit engineers executing donor-financed contracts
• Traffic management engineers and roadside safety officers
• Public works ministry personnel managing secondary road networks
• Road safety audit team members and asset inspection engineers
• Technical advisors supporting transport sector institutional development
• Transport safety policy analysts and corridor programme directors
• Infrastructure and urban planners
• Engineers and technical managers
• Project and programme managers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training, participants will be able to:

• Apply Safe System principles to the geometric design and remedial engineering of rural and peri-urban roads
• Execute data-driven blackspot identification using crash records, spatial data, and collision severity metrics
• Conduct formal road safety audits and proactive infrastructure safety inspections using international standards
• Design practical traffic calming countermeasures for secondary networks, township interfaces, and school zones
• Specify roadside protection systems, including crash barriers and forgiving roadside clearance zones
• Formulate hazard mitigation plans for pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users on high-speed corridors
• Prepare prioritised, cost-effective remedial engineering programmes suitable for multilateral development bank financing
• Explain how infrastructure is planned and prioritised
• Appraise projects and prepare a business case
• Compare financing and delivery models, including partnerships

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training Methodology

The training employs an applied professional learning methodology combining technical lectures, engineering design studios, and real-world hazard evaluation exercises.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ Delegates work directly with road safety data sets, engineering schematics, and international barrier standards. Collaborative syndicate sessions focus on real-world problem-solving for secondary and regional roads, complemented by a local field study in the Lisbon metropolitan area to observe contemporary passive safety, speed management, and junction remediation treatments.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training, participants will be able to:

• Proficiency in diagnosing infrastructure safety deficiencies using crash data and systemic risk metrics
• Capacity to lead and review formal Road Safety Audits across all project development phases
• Ability to design robust, cost-effective remedial measures for high-risk blackspots and corridor sections
• Competence in selecting and specifying roadside containment barriers in compliance with international standards
• Practical skill in designing speed reduction and physical protection schemes for vulnerable community settlements
• Readiness to integrate quantifiable Safe System measures into donor-funded transport sector programmes
• Plan and prioritise infrastructure investments
• Appraise projects and prepare business cases

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Investment planning
• Project appraisal
• Partnership management
• Works supervision
• Asset management

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Business cases
• Risk allocation
• Contract management
• Maintenance planning
• Service monitoring

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply infrastructure, urban development and partnerships within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on infrastructure, urban development and partnerships. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to infrastructure, urban development and partnerships that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Lisbon, Portugal brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how infrastructure, urban development and partnerships is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Portugal

Training programmes and study tours in Lisbon suit professionals focusing on public sector governance, maritime affairs, renewable energy, and urban administration. Delegates attend from across Europe, North Africa, and Portuguese-speaking nations in Africa and South America.

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Readiness Assessment
• Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon Training Manual
• Project Appraisal Template
• PPP Risk Allocation Matrix
• Works Supervision Checklist
• Asset Management Plan Template
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Business Case Review Checklist
• Maintenance Planning Template
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions plan and prioritise infrastructure investments?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Safe System Foundations and Crash Data Analysis), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions appraise projects and prepare business cases?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Road Safety Audits and Proactive Safety Inspections), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions choose financing and delivery models?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Blackspot Engineering and Hazardous Location Remediation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions supervise works for time, cost and quality?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Roadside Hazard Management and Passive Safety Systems), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions manage assets over their life?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Vulnerable Road User Protection and Programme Implementation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Safe System Road Engineering and Blackspot Remediation in Lisbon programme take place?

It runs from 17 May 2027 to 21 May 2027, in Lisbon, Portugal. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for highway authority civil engineers and geometric designers, regional transport planners and municipal infrastructure managers, road safety specialists and corridor performance monitors, project management unit engineers executing donor-financed contracts, and others who want practical skills in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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