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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
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)
3OTS - Welcome Package
Operations Discipline
• Headquarters (Program Office)•HOTO•HOTM•HOFM
• Resource Center• Division Offices
4OTS - Welcome Package
Operations Organization
• Office of Transportation Operations (HOTO)•MUTCD•Work Zone•Road Weather•Emergency Transportation Operations
5OTS - Welcome Package
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
6OTS - Welcome Package
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.
7OTS - Welcome Package
Operations TST
• Provide Technical Assistance in Program Areas•Division requests•Training•Technology deployment•Assistance to Program Office in
developing policies
8OTS - Welcome Package
Division Specialists
• Many Divisions combine Safety and Operations duties into one position•Divisions responsible for
–Technical assistance–Program oversight
9OTS - Welcome Package
Ops TST training
10OTS - Welcome Package
• 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?
12OTS - Welcome Package
Possible additional training needs?
• Human Factors and TCD?• Series on Traffic Engineering?• Traffic Signal Design and Operations?• TS Maintenance?• Nighttime WZ Design?
13OTS - Welcome Package