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The Operations
Discipline
Recent Announcements
• Next round of Work Zone Safety Grant
proposals are now advertised on
grants.gov website – encourage you to
apply.
• MUTCD – future direction
• Will not pursue splitting
• Strategic planning effort due Jan. 2014
– http://mutcd.tamu.edu/
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Close relationship – Ops and Safety
• Does Operations and Safety =
Traffic Engineering?
• Disciplines used to be in one office in
FHWA and still are in many agencies
• MUTCD program moved to Operations
many years ago – Work Zone program
fairly recently (has WZ Safety and WZ
Ops)
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Operations Discipline
• Headquarters (Program Office)
• HOTO
• HOTM
• HOFM
• Resource Center
• Division Offices
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Operations Organization
• Office of Transportation Operations
(HOTO)
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MUTCD
Work Zone
Road Weather
Emergency Transportation Operations
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Resource Center – Operations TST
Grant Zammit – Team Manager
Eddie Curtis
Rick Denny
Eric Ferron
Ed Fok
Daniel Grate
Greg Jones
Jim McCarthy (Part
time)
Ray Murphy
Paul Olson
Nathaniel Price (Part
time)
Jim Sturrock
Chung Tran
Ralph Volpe
Ken Wood
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenter/teams/operations/index.cfm
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Resource Center – Operations TST
Mission:
To advance transportation operations through
training, technical assistance, technology
deployment, and partnerships with division offices,
headquarters programs, research organizations,
and State and local agencies.
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Operations TST
• Provide Technical Assistance in
Program Areas
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Division requests
Training
Technology deployment
Assistance to Program Office in
developing policies
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Division Specialists
• Many Divisions combine Safety and
Operations duties into one position
• Divisions responsible for
–Technical assistance
–Program oversight
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Ops TST training
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MUTCD
Work Zone Design and Operations
Planning for Operations
Traffic Signal Design and Operations
Systems Engineering
Planned Special Events
Traffic Analysis Tools
Traffic Incident Management
Road Weather Mangement
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FHWA WZ website
http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/index.asp
Work Zone Safety Clearinghouse
http://www.workzonesafety.org/
MUTCD website
http://www.mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/
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• What types of training do you currently
offer and to what audience?
• Any assistance necessary? If so,
what type?
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Possible additional training needs?
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Human Factors and TCD?
Series on Traffic Engineering?
Traffic Signal Design and Operations?
TS Maintenance?
Nighttime WZ Design?
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[email protected]
708-283-4340
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