The Operations Discipline. Recent Announcements Next round of Work Zone Safety Grant proposals are...

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/

2OTS - Welcome Package

http://mutcd.tamu.edu/

http://mutcd.tamu.edu/

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)


Operations Discipline

• Headquarters (Program Office)•HOTO•HOTM•HOFM

• Resource Center• Division Offices


Operations Organization

• Office of Transportation Operations (HOTO)•MUTCD•Work Zone•Road Weather•Emergency Transportation Operations


Resource Center – Operations TST

Grant Zammit – Team Manager

Eddie Curtis

Rick Denny

Eric Ferron

Ed Fok

Daniel Grate

Greg Jones

Jim McCarthy (Part time)

Ray Murphy

Paul Olson

Nathaniel Price (Part time)

Jim Sturrock

Chung Tran

Ralph Volpe

Ken Wood


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.


Operations TST

• Provide Technical Assistance in Program Areas•Division requests•Training•Technology deployment•Assistance to Program Office in

developing policies


Division Specialists

• Many Divisions combine Safety and Operations duties into one position•Divisions responsible for

–Technical assistance–Program oversight


Ops TST training


• 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 website

http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/index.asp

Work Zone Safety Clearinghouse

http://www.workzonesafety.org/

MUTCD website

http://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?


Possible additional training needs?

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


[email protected]


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