This course discusses design strategies available to work zone designers. It focuses on strategies specifically aimed at improving work zone safety and mobility, such as work zone full closures, … [Read more...] about Work Zone Strategies
Work Zone Design
Modeling Speed Behavior of Passenger Cars and Trucks in Freeway Construction Work Zones: Implications on Work Zone Design and Traffic Control Decision Processes
Current work zone design and traffic control guidance is based on desirable speed outcomes; knowledge related to actual speed outcomes of design and traffic control decisions is limited. The objective … [Read more...] about Modeling Speed Behavior of Passenger Cars and Trucks in Freeway Construction Work Zones: Implications on Work Zone Design and Traffic Control Decision Processes
Work Zone Design
The course will give participants knowledge of the entire temporary traffic control (TTC) process: planning, design, review, installation, maintenance, and inspection of temporary traffic control for … [Read more...] about Work Zone Design
Design of Construction Work Zones on High-Speed Highways
This report explores an approach for the selection of an appropriate construction work zone type; offers suggested guidance for the design of geometric features, including horizontal and vertical … [Read more...] about Design of Construction Work Zones on High-Speed Highways
Design and oversight of work zone operations
Pennsylvania is divided into eleven Engineering Districts. The design and oversight of work zones is done at the district level either in the Traffic or Design unit. Oversight is handled by the … [Read more...] about Design and oversight of work zone operations
Tool to Design for Construction Worker Safety
Improving construction worker safety continues to be a major goal in the construction industry. While significant improvements in safety performance have been made in the past few decades, one party … [Read more...] about Tool to Design for Construction Worker Safety