Join the NJDOT Bureau of Research for the Lunchtime Tech Talk! WEBINAR: What Happens Now? Virtual Public Engagement During and Beyond Covid-19 on October 6th, 2021. This webinar will focus on virtual public involvement (VPI) both during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, when DOTs, MPOs and other local public agencies were confronted with the need […]
Value Capture Strategies: Making the Business and Economic Case —A PrimerWednesday, October 6, 2021 1:00:00 PM EDT - 3:00:00 PM EDT REGISTER HERE https://connectdotcqpub1.connectsolutions.com/content/connect/c1/7/en/events/event/shared/1112389207/event_landing.html?connect-session=breezbreezy3f48xtv2khrkri9&sco-id=1303246987&_charset_=utf-8 The Value Capture Business Case describes how governments set the policy, goals, objectives, and key performance indicators that form the basis of the policy case for a project. These are linked […]
Rural roadway departures make up a third of U.S. traffic fatalities—about 30 people a day. Head-ons, rollovers and tree crashes account for over three-quarters of these fatalities. Curves are over-represented for all 3 of these crash types. This webinar will focus on how several agencies are addressing curves within their jurisdictions by enhancing curves with […]
Bundling Implementation Best Practices Workshop:The Self-Assessment Tool October 14, 2021, 1:00 - 3:00 ET Project bundling https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/everydaycounts/edc_5/project_bundling.cfm is projected to save the Indiana Department of Transportation an estimated $260M over six years, plus an additional $108M from implementing machine learning, along with savings of staff time. Your agency can realize these and other benefits too! […]
Evaluation of projects for bundling is best done strategically and early in the transportation planning process to gain economies of scale throughout project development. Ideally, from a planning perspective the set of candidate projects suitable for funding and bundling will occur before the projects are listed in the STIP. This webinar highlights how capital programming […]
The National STIC meeting is to provide a forum for FHWA and STICs to share information across the STIC Network. This meeting allows STIC members to ask questions of the transportation community leadership to help shape their own innovation practices and to spark further conversations between states. The meeting will be hosted via Zoom. Pre-registration […]
This free virtual summit, held on Friday October 22, 2021, and sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Transportation https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/ , brings together hundreds of planners, engineers, advocates, and policy-makers from around the State to learn about implementing Complete Streets policies and projects. This year's Summit celebrates 10+ years of Complete Streets in New Jersey, […]
The Annual New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Research Showcase is an opportunity for New Jersey’s transportation community to experience the broad scope of ongoing academic research initiatives and share technology transfer activities being conducted by institutions of higher education (IHE) partners and their associates. It also serves to highlight the benefits of transportation research, […]
Most people look at dynamic message signs or traffic signals and think they are on all the time. However, automated vehicles cameras take images so fast that they catch LEDs in the refreshing state leaving a dark image or distorted image. To address this, finding the right balance in specifications for both the LED used […]
In Session 1 of this series, we explored some of the responses to the current Notice of Proposed Amendments (NPA) for the 11th Edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). ITE’s response (available here) https://bit.ly/ITECommentsNPAMUTCD includes a call for FHWA to consider the needs of all users, to provide greater flexibility and […]