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Guide to Alternative Technologies for Preventing and Mitigating Vehicle Intrusions Into Highway Work Zones

Work zone intrusion technologies are designed to warn workers and drivers of potential intrusion, provide a barrier to prevent intrusion, detect and alert drivers and workers during intrusion, and/or … [Read more...] about Guide to Alternative Technologies for Preventing and Mitigating Vehicle Intrusions Into Highway Work Zones

Ohio DOT Testing ‘Smart’ Work Zone Safety Systems

The Ohio Department of Transportation is in the process of testing several different technologies, such as queue detection systems and variable speed limit signs, designed to improve work zone safety … [Read more...] about Ohio DOT Testing ‘Smart’ Work Zone Safety Systems

Use of Smart Work Zone Technologies for Improving Work Zone Safety: A Synthesis of Highway Practice

To make work zones safer, state departments of transportation (DOTs) use smart technologies with specialized components, such as sensors, communications, software, and electronic equipment, to manage … [Read more...] about Use of Smart Work Zone Technologies for Improving Work Zone Safety: A Synthesis of Highway Practice

Avoiding Caught-in Hazards

This video reviews three caught-in hazards that you need to prepare for in your work zones and how to mitigate the risks to avoid injury or death. The hazards include crushed-by, entanglement, … [Read more...] about Avoiding Caught-in Hazards

Virginia Tech Testing Work Zone Safety System

Researchers with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute recently collaborated with the Virginia Department of Transportation and GeoStabilization International to pilot test smart work zone … [Read more...] about Virginia Tech Testing Work Zone Safety System

Building a Smart Work Zone Using Roadside LiDAR

Work Zone (WZ) related injuries and fatalities from vehicular crashes are rising because of the increasing maintenance needs of the aging transportation infrastructure in the United States. Although … [Read more...] about Building a Smart Work Zone Using Roadside LiDAR

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