Flagging traffic is both a critical and a potentially hazardous part of providing a safe work zone. Flaggers are responsible for protecting their fellow workers as well as motorists. The WA State FIT … [Read more...] about Washington State Flagger Instructor Training
Flagging
Traffic Control for Safer Work Zones
Traffic Control for Safe Work Zones is designed to keep the workers and public safe during road construction and maintenance, utility work, landscaping and railway maintenance work along roadways in … [Read more...] about Traffic Control for Safer Work Zones
Flagger Operations: Investigating Their Effectiveness in Capturing Driver Attention
This two-pronged (driving simulation and field study) investigation of driver behavior in work zones contributes basic and applied knowledge to our understanding of work zone safety. In the driving … [Read more...] about Flagger Operations: Investigating Their Effectiveness in Capturing Driver Attention
Safe Way to Go
As a critical part of highway construction and maintenance activities, flagging operations could benefit from the use of automated flagger-assistance devices (AFADs) to improve the safety of flagging … [Read more...] about Safe Way to Go
Influence of Remotely Operated Stop—Slow Controls on Driver Behavior in Work Zones
Remotely operated devices for traffic control–portable traffic lights and automated flagger assistance devices–are used to improve flagger safety in a one-lane-each-way work zone with lane closure. … [Read more...] about Influence of Remotely Operated Stop—Slow Controls on Driver Behavior in Work Zones
Maintenance of Traffic for Technicians
This course presents information about the placement of, field maintenance required for, and inspection of traffic control devices. In addition, drafting work zone traffic control plans and flagger … [Read more...] about Maintenance of Traffic for Technicians