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)•MUTCD•Work Zone•Road Weather•Emergency Transportation Operations

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Resource Center – Operations TST

Grant Zammit – Team Manager

Eddie CurtisRick DennyEric FerronEd FokDaniel GrateGreg JonesJim McCarthy (Part time)

Ray MurphyPaul OlsonNathaniel Price (Part time)Jim SturrockChung TranRalph VolpeKen Wood

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http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenter/teams/operations/index.cfm

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•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

FHWA WZ websitehttp://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/index.asp

Work Zone Safety Clearinghouse http://www.workzonesafety.org/

MUTCD websitehttp://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?

• Human Factors and TCD?• Series on Traffic Engineering?• Traffic Signal Design and Operations?• TS Maintenance?• Nighttime WZ Design?

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Ken.wood@dot.gov708-283-4340

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