FHWA Work Zone Safety Grants: Utility Work Zone Safety Guidelines and Training
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FHWA Work Zone Safety Grants: Utility Work Zone Safety Guidelines and Training
Progress Presentation
September 2008
FHWA Contract No. DTFH61-06-G-00006
Tapan Datta, Ph.D., P.E.,
WSU-Transportation Research Group
Professor and Grant Project Manager
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Major Accomplishments: Meetings and Presentations
- First Local Focus Group Meeting on November 29, 2006
- First National Focus Group Meeting on January 23, 2007
- Second Local Focus Group Meeting on September 7, 2007
- Second National Focus Group Meeting on January 15,2008
- Presentation of UWZ Project in the “Power Talk Session” at ATSSA 38th Annual Convention and Traffic Expo in New Orleans, LA on February 10, 2008
- Presentation to Edison Electric Institute during Spring Conference in Louisville, KY on April 29, 2008
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Major Accomplishments: Submittals
- State-of-the-Art and State-of-the-Practice Reviews
- Gap Study and Needs Assessment
- Utility Work Zone Traffic Control Curriculum
- Utility Work Zone Traffic Control Guidelines
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Utility Work Zone Traffic Control Curriculum
- Management and Safety Officials’ Training Program
- Approximately 3 hours
- Includes:
- Welcome, Housekeeping and Introductions
- Pre-Test
- Why Follow the Guideline?
- Utility Work Zone Traffic Control and Safety / Positive
Guidance / Driver Expectancy - Agencywide Safety Culture – What? Why? How?
- Training, Knowledge Retention and Retraining Issues
- Question and Answer
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Utility Work Zone Traffic Control Curriculum Cont.
- Utility Workers, Foremen, and Supervisors Training
- Approximately 3 hours
- Includes:
- Introduction to guidelines
- Recommended Traffic Control Devices and Why?
- Suggested Traffic Control Plans / Pedestrian Issues
- How Do You Select a Proper Traffic Control Plan?
- Case Study - In-Class Exercises
- Demonstration of Software Program
- Question and Answer
- Post-Test and Course Evaluation
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Major Accomplishments: Software Development
- 2 Software Programs
- Drag-and-Drop Software
- Used for In-Class Exercise with series of Example Problems
- Temporary Traffic Control Plan (TTCP) Selection Software
- Used to determine appropriate Typical TTCP for site-specific conditions
- Drag-and-Drop Software
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Plan Selection Software (Part Shown)
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Example Output
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Example Output
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Major Accomplishments: Training
- Conducted 2 Pilot Training Sessions
- Detroit, MI on March 20, 2008
- Hanover, MD on April 22, 2008
- Conducted 4 Train-the-Trainer Sessions
- Tempe, AZ on May 14, 2008
- Dallas, TX on June 19, 2008
- West Conshohocken, PA on July 17, 2008
- Gahanna, OH on August 21, 2008
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Training Program Results
| Program Registrations | |
|---|---|
| Location | # Registrants |
| Detroit | 66 |
| Hanover | 47 |
| Tempe | 34 |
| Dallas | 40 |
| Pre- and Post-Test Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Pre-Test Average | Post-Test Average | Average Improvement |
| Detroit | 55.0% | 67.4% | 13.0% |
| Hanover | 49.0% | 61.6% | 14.3% |
| Tempe | 53.9% | 65.0% | 10.6% |
| Dallas | 51.5% | 63.3% | 14.5% |
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Program Evaluation Results
| Location | Management and Safety Officials Module Average Score out of 5 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For Session no. | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Detroit | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| Hanover | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| Tempe | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| Dallas | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
| Location | Utility Workers, Foremen, and Supervisors Module Average Score out of 5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For Session no. | ||||||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
| Detroit | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.1 |
| Hanover | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.2 |
| Tempe | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.8 |
| Dallas | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
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Thank You
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