Training services
Causeway offers comprehensive online training programmes developed by our experienced trainers, who possess in-depth knowledge of our software.
Trainer-led courses
Harness the power of personalised instruction and interactive learning with our trainer-led training courses, maximising your team's potential and accelerating their skills development for your Causeway product.
Introduction to PDS — Part 1
Category: Causeway PDS
Duration: 3 days
Upcoming dates: 13 - 15 October
Location: Online
This three-day course is designed to provide basic training to enable productive use of our Design Suite software by Engineers and Technicians. By the end of this course you will have a solid foundation and working knowledge of the software.
Prerequisites: The latest version of Causeway PDS and Flow installed and tested.
Audience: This course is for new users and anyone looking for grounding in the latest version and techniques, including Design Engineers, Technicians, Project Managers and those on front line of engineering design.
Introduction to PDS — Part 2
Category: Causeway PDS
Duration: 2 days
Upcoming dates: 20 - 21 October
Location: Online
This two-day course is designed to expand on the techniques learnt in the Introduction Course Part 1 to help you become more productive and profitable. By the end of this course you will have knowledge of working with advanced techniques and functionality of PDS.
Prerequisites: Attendees for this course is aimed at those who have attended the Introduction Course Part 1, gained practical use and are now looking to extend their knowledge and learn some of the more advanced aspects. The latest version of Causeway PDS installed and tested.
Audience: This course is for new users and anyone looking for grounding in the latest version and techniques, including Design Engineers, Technicians, Project Managers and those on front line of engineering design.
Drainage Engineering For Beginners
Category: Causeway Flow
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: 22 September, 20 October, 17 November, 8 December
Location: Online
This training course is designed for anyone new to storm or foul water drainage design and analysis in the UK. It is also useful for engineers seeking to update their knowledge and industry best practices.
The course will cover the latest requirements from legislations, regulations, standards and guidance to design a drainage network. We will use Causeway’s drainage design software, Flow, to design an optimal and cost-effective drainage system whilst satisfying the latest requirements. A series of exercises based around real world examples will be used to familiarise new ideas throughout the course.
Prerequisites: No applied knowledge of Flow or Fundamental understanding of drainage design is required. The latest version of Causeway Flow installed and tested. Supplied data files installed and supplied notes printed.
Audience: This course is for drainage engineers and technicians from engineering consultancies, civil engineering firms, housing developers, highway engineers and approving authorities involved in the UK drainage design market.
Fundamental Drainage Design
Category: Causeway Flow
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: 23 September, 21 October, 18 November, 9 December
Location: Online
This one-day course is designed to introduce the core requirements of drainage design and enable trainees to produce a complete drainage network using Causeway Flow. This course will provide all necessary knowledge on the design, scheduling and analysis of a drainage network prepared for approval using Causeway Flow.
Prerequisites: The latest version of Causeway Flow installed and tested.
Audience: This course is for new users of Causeway Flow. Drainage design engineers from engineering consultancies, civil engineering firms, housing developers, highway engineers and approving authorities involved in the UK drainage design market will gain a basic knowledge of drainage design and achieve a working knowledge of Causeway Flow.
Advanced Drainage Design
Category: Causeway Flow
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: 20 August, 24 September, 22 October, 19 November, 10 December
Location: Online
This one-day course will take place over a 2-hour session in the morning and afternoon. It provides all the essential expertise required to achieve an optimal and compliant drainage design.
Prerequisites: A good applied knowledge of Flow is required or attendance of the Design Fundamental course. The latest version of Causeway Flow installed and tested (including ‘Flow+’ and ‘Sketch’ modules).
Audience: The course is designed to empower engineers to deliver an optimal, cost effective and compliant design by providing a good practical knowledge of advanced drainage design using Flow. It will explore how to significantly simplify the iterative design cycle, reduce errors, save time, increasing productivity and profitability.
Graphical Drainage Design
Category: Causeway Flow and SmartTools
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: 25 September, 23 October, 20 November, 11 December
Location: Online
This course is designed for engineers who are looking to learn how to deploy SmartTools to effectively and successfully tackle more challenging graphical design problems and attain smooth drawing productions. Providing a good practical knowledge of advanced graphical drainage design, we will explore how to significantly simplify the iterative design cycle, reducing errors, saving time, increasing productivity and profitability.
Prerequisites: Applied knowledge of Flow is required or attendance of the Design Fundamental course. The latest version of Causeway Flow installed and tested (including ‘Flow+’ and ‘Sketch’ modules). Supplied data files installed and supplied notes printed.
Audience: This course provides all the essential expertise required to achieve graphically designed optimal and compliant drainage design. Causeway Flow users involved in the UK drainage design market, including drainage design engineers, housebuilders, approving authorities and highway engineers, will gain a comprehensive knowledge in graphical drainage design and achieve a working knowledge of the strengths and capabilities of SmartTools.
Auditing Drainage Design Submissions
Category: Causeway Flow
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
This course provides all the essential expertise required to audit any drainage network or achieve a compliant drainage design. We will look at how to audit any drainage network for compliance with UK Specific requirements such as: DCG, local standards, SfA, the Interim Code of Practice for SuDS, the SuDS manual C753, Climate Change and Exceedance.
The course will provide a good practical knowledge of both traditional drainage and a SuDS design approach whilst looking at how to evaluate the impact of new developments on existing catchments. As part of the audit we will explore pre-development runoff calculations, Storage estimation, SuDS feasibility assessment & outline design, hydraulic analysis against extreme events and a series of 17 automated tests ranging from manhole energy losses to discharge volume.
Prerequisites: No previous knowledge of Flow is required. The latest version of Causeway Flow installed and tested. Supplied data files installed and supplied notes printed.
Audience: This course is designed for Approving Authorities in the UK who want to effectively deploy Causeway Flow to carry out checking and auditing for compliance of both traditional drainage and SuDS networks submissions. It is also useful for engineering consultants, civil engineers and developers who want to gain an understanding of the approval process of drainage networks whilst achieving an optimal and value engineered design.
Sustainable Drainage Design
Category: Causeway Flow
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
This one-day course introduces the core requirements for modelling sustainable drainage systems based on Schedule 3, using Causeway Flow. More details to follow as the specific implementation plan becomes clearer.
Causeway one.network Map
Category: Causeway one.network
Duration: 45 minutes
Upcoming dates: 9 September
Location: Online
Sign up to attend a free online one-hour training session, covering:
- Signing in and changing your password
- A detailed run through of the Causeway one.network map
- All the available data layers
- Performing a historical search for past road events
Audience: This course is for users of Causeway one.network's Map module.
Causeway one.network Traffic Management
Category: Causeway one.network
Duration: 45 minutes
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
Sign up to attend a free online one-hour training session, covering:
- Signing in and changing your password
- An overview of the one.network map
- The one.network data layers
- Creating Traffic Management plans (Steps 1-3)
- Searching and editing Traffic Management plans
Audience: This course is for users of Causeway one.network's Traffic Management module.
Causeway one.network Councillor
Category: Causeway one.network
Duration: 45 minutes
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
Sign up to attend a free online 45 minute training session, covering:
- Signing in and changing your password
- How to create an email alert
- An overview of the one.network map
- The one.network data layers
Causeway ParkMap Essentials
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Navigating the map and finding TROs
- Running standard reports
- Exporting data for Freedom of Information (FoI) requests
- Printing schedules and maps for consultations or internal use
- Understanding TRO status and audit trails
Audience: This course is for all Causeway ParkMap users.
Causeway ParkMap Order Creation
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Creating a new order record
- Drawing restrictions on the map
- Applying the correct restriction types and attributes
- Adding legal schedules and descriptive text
- Saving and managing draft orders
Prerequisites:: Attendees for this course is aimed at those who have attended the Causeway ParkMap Essentials course.
Audience: This course is for Operational users and System admin.
Causeway ParkMap Amendment Orders
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Finding and selecting the correct parent order
- Amending map-based restrictions
- Revoking in part or as a whole
- Consolidating orders
- Ensuring legal accuracy and clarity
- Preparing orders for consultation or sealing
Prerequisites:: Attendees for this course is aimed at those who have attended the Causeway ParkMap Order Creation course.
Audience: This course is for Operational users and System admin.
Causeway ParkMap Moving Orders
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Defining Street Lighting Areas
- Plotting Speed orders
- Examples: one-way streets, banned movements, lorry bans
- Special considerations for signage and enforcement
Prerequisites:: Attendees for this course is aimed at those who have attended the Causeway ParkMap Essentials course.
Audience: This course is for Operational users and System admin.
Causeway ParkMap Text/Map Schedules
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Creating and maintaining text / map schedules
- Confirming and Making an Order
- User permissions and role settings
- System admin tasks such as tidying datasets and data quality
- Routine health checks to ensure performance and compliance
Prerequisites:: Attendees for this course is aimed at those who have attended the Causeway ParkMap Order Creation & Amendment Orders courses.
Audience: This course is for System admin.
Causeway ParkMap Essentials & Traffic Order Management
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: In-person
A comprehensive introduction, combining key functionality with practical order creation.
- Navigating ParkMap and running reports (inc. FoI and printing)
- Creating new orders for parking, waiting, and loading restrictions
- Amending existing orders and managing schedules
- Understanding order status, workflows, and audit trails
Audience: All users.
Causeway ParkMap Traffic Order Management (Moving Orders)
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: In-person
Focused on more complex order types and administrative processes.
- Creating and amending moving traffic orders (e.g. speed limits, one-ways, bans)
- Applying appropriate attributes and map-based restrictions
- Managing parent-child relationships and amendment logic
- Introduction to relevant admin functions and best practices
Prerequisites: Completion of the ParkMap Essentials and Traffic Order Management courses.
Audience: This course is for Operational users and System admin.
Causeway ParkMap Map Schedules & System Administration
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: In-person
For advanced users and administrators responsible for legal documents and system upkeep.
- Generating legal documents from text and map schedules
- Editing and validating schedule content
- Performing system checks and tidying datasets
- Managing users, permissions, and configuration settings
Prerequisites: Completion of the ParkMap Order Creation course.
Audience: This course is for Operational users and System admin.
Causeway ParkMap Bespoke
Category: Causeway ParkMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
This session can be fully tailored to your needs. You're welcome to specify the topics you'd like covered, whether that's a deep dive into a particular area, a mix of subjects from other sessions, or support with real-world casework.
Audience: All users.
Introduction to Causeway SignPlot
Category: Causeway SignPlot
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: In-person
Ideal for new users, this course covers the foundations of traffic sign design using SignPlot.
- Key principles and terminology
- Creating directional signs and parking plates
- Using destination blocks, symbols, and cycle route signs
- Designing stack and map-type signs
- Worded regulatory signs (e.g. waiting/loading plates)
- Printing, exporting, and sharing designs
- Tips, shortcuts, and a review session with Q&A
Audience: All users.
Causeway SignPlot Essentials
Category: Causeway SignPlot
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Creating direction signs using wizards
- Adding symbols, patches, and panels
- Designing parking plates and warning signs with sub-plates
- Printing and exporting sign face PDFs
Audience: All users.
Causeway SignPlot Advanced Signs
Category: Causeway SignPlot
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Advanced directional signs
- Multi-panel and stacked ADS
- Designing signs for roundabouts and T-junctions
- Creating map-type signs with destination routes and patches
Prerequisites: Completion of the SignPlot Essentials course.
Audience: All users.
Causeway SignPlot Complex Signs
Category: Causeway SignPlot
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Complex map-type and lane indication signs
- Introducing supports, foundations, and generating installation schedules
Prerequisites: Completion of the SignPlot Advanced course.
Audience: All users.
Advanced Causeway SignPlot
Category: Causeway SignPlot
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: In-person
Designed for experienced users, focusing on more complex signs and technical functions.
- Legal requirements and DfT guidance
- Advanced use of wizards and geometry tools
- Complex junctions and non-standard roundabouts
- Wind loading and support calculations
- Customising print templates and layouts
- Lane indication signs and advanced ADS design
- Configuration, file management, and housekeeping
Prerequisites: Completion of the Introduction to Causeway SignPlot course.
Audience: All users.
Causeway SignPlot Bespoke
Category: Causeway SignPlot
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
This session can be fully tailored to your needs. You're welcome to specify the topics you'd like covered, whether that's a deep dive into a particular area, a mix of subjects from other sessions, or support with real-world casework.
Audience: All users.
Causeway AccsMap Essentials
Category: Causeway AccsMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Navigating the map and locating collisions
- Running standard queries and filtering by date, severity, or type etc.
- Generating charts, tables, and reports
- Conducting Cluster Analysis and Data Clock Analysis
Audience: All users.
Causeway AccsMap Advanced Analysis
Category: Causeway AccsMap
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: In-person
A one-day course for experienced users looking to deepen their analysis and querying skills.
- Understanding the AccsMap data structure
- Creating and managing pre-defined queries
- Writing SQL queries – from basic to advanced
- Running complex data queries for detailed analysis
- Creating custom tabulations
- Route-based collision analysis
- Postcode-based spatial analysis
- Monitoring sites and camera data reporting
Prerequisites: Completion of the Causeway AccsMap Essentials & Analysis courses.
Audience: This course is for Data Analysts.
Causeway AccsMap Analysis
Category: Causeway AccsMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Using advanced filters (pre-defined) and spatial queries
- Trend, Route, and Monitoring sites analysis
- Custom report templates and data exports
Prerequisites: Completion of the Causeway AccsMap Essentials course.
Audience: This course is for Data Analysts.
Causeway AccsMap RTC Recording and Admins
Category: Causeway AccsMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Manually recording and editing RTC data
- Managing supplementary details and attributes
- Data import/export routines
- Admin tools and data validation
Prerequisites: Completion of the Causeway AccsMap Essentials course.
Audience: This course is for Data Inputters and System admin.
Standard Causeway AccsMap
Category: Causeway AccsMap
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: In-person
A one-day course introducing core functionality for everyday users.
- System navigation and finding collisions
- Making selections and generating standard reports
- Writing and using custom queries
- Using pre-defined queries for common tasks
- Cluster and monitoring site analysis
- Creating and using polygons in spatial queries
- Tabulations, stick diagrams, and reporting tools
- Exporting maps and visual outputs
Audience: All users
Causeway AccsMap Bespoke
Category: Causeway AccsMap
Duration: 2 hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
This session can be fully tailored to your needs. You're welcome to specify the topics you'd like covered, whether that's a deep dive into a particular area, a mix of subjects from other sessions, or support with real-world casework.
Audience: All users
Introduction to Traffic Sign Design
Category: -
Duration: 2 days
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
This is an online course delivered over two days, with each session lasting for two hours, from 10 am to noon. The training will be live and interactive and delegates will have opportunities to ask questions directly to the trainer or via the e-chat. The training is delivered via Zoom.
This course is for those new to traffic signing. It will help you gain essential skills and knowledge on how to create signs compliant with current legislation, including those for topical matters such as low traffic neighbourhoods, clean air measures and electric vehicles.
The course leader is Simon Morgan chair of the Traffic Sign Panel for the Institute of Highways Engineers and editor/reviewer of many current guidance or legislation documents.
- Legal background to UK traffic signing
- TSRGD 2016 and DfT guidance
- Types of sign and their correct use
- Basic principles of sign design
- Directional signs and avoiding overload
- Regulatory signs and parking plates
- Illumination and retroreflection
Introduction to Traffic Orders and Order Making
Category: -
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
This course is an introduction to traffic orders and order making. It includes a particular emphasis on using maps as the order schedules - the modern method that is being rapidly adopted across Britain.
This one-day session assumes no previous knowledge of the subject and is intended to give a thorough overview for those who manage civil enforcement or are involved in the introduction of changes to parking or moving traffic measures. It is also intended for those who are considering the move from text-based to map-based TROs.
- What can an order regulate? Relevant Acts and secondary legislation.
- The structure and content of a traffic order
- Map schedules v text schedules
- Detailed considerations for map-based orders
- Notices, advertising and consultation
- Practical order making
Eliminating Sign Clutter
Category: -
Duration: 1 day
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
- Using advanced filters (pre-defined) and spatial queries
- Trend, Route, and Monitoring sites analysis
- Custom report templates and data exports
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Moving Traffic Enforcement
Category: -
Duration: 2 days, with each session lasting for two hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
With the introduction of the remaining parts of Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act, authorities in England will soon be able to apply to enforce many moving traffic measure themselves under civil powers. These include box junctions, banned turns, bus and cycle lanes, bus gates and pedestrian zones.
Whist London authorities have had similar powers for many years, these changes are important for them too as they allow some additional measures to be enforced and change the wording used on enforcement correspondence.
This introductory course gives full coverage of the changes and prepares authorities for what they need to do if they are considering applying for a designation order to undertake civil MTE.
- What are the changes?
- Government statutory and other guidance
- What signs and markings does it cover?
- What’s new for London authorities?
- Required steps in applying for an MTE Designation Order
- Choosing sites to include
- Checking your signs, lines and TROs are compliant end enforceable
- How to conduct a consultation and what it should cover
- Considering the consultation responses
The course will be delivered by Simon Morgan, chair of the Institute of Highway Engineers panel for traffic signs, who had been involved with training TPT staff on moving traffic enforcement in Wales.
Sign Structures and Passive Safety - what's new
Category: -
Duration: 2 days, with each session lasting for two hours
Upcoming dates: Please enquire
Location: Online
Are you wondering what the expanded (2021) Sign Structures Guide contains, and what has changed? Have you picked up on changes to Highways England and other standards? This course for non-specialists brings you up-to-date whether or not you have attended one of our previous sign structures courses.
With the need to specify safe but economic sign supports, often with the need also for passive safety, many designers of traffic signs would welcome more guidance on the structural aspects.
Delivered by Simon Morgan editor and co-author of the Sign Structures Guide and chair of the BSI committee for UK traffic sign standards. This course is for non specialist and covers the basic theory of sign support and foundation design and how to apply the new standards in practice.
- A brief introduction to the subject followed by an update on the changes in:
- 2021 IHE Sign Structures Guide
- 2020 revision of Highways England minor structures standard CD 354
- 2019 revision of the passive safety standard BS EN 12767