Work Zone Designer Series – Traffic Management and Safety During Winter Construction

Most State and many other transportation departments in the U.S. maintain roadway and/or work zone design manuals containing State specific regulations, policies, and design guidance for their designers and consultants to prepare project work zone transportation management plans. However, those manuals vary widely in the depth of coverage and the work zone design topics offered. This series of publications are for work zone design manual decision makers, editors, and subject matter experts to develop or enhance their own guidance materials.

“Information for Work Zone Designers – Traffic Management and Safety During Winter Construction” is part of a series on various work zone design topics. This publication focuses on temporary traffic control methods for winter construction and materials that can better tolerate winter/colder weather conditions. Also are suggestions on construction and maintenance techniques that may better accommodate winter construction.

This publication is not a stand-alone document for designing work zone traffic control plans. State, county, local, and tribal transportation agency subject matter experts can use this material as a reference to augment their own work zone transportation management planning manuals and guidance materials, and work zone design policies and procedures.

The publication material has been primarily obtained through a comprehensive literature search including State design manuals, noteworthy state-of-the-practices both published and unpublished, and based on the authors’ previous research findings and experiences.