Training

On April 25th, Caltrans held its annual statewide Workers Memorial at the State Capitol. Since 1921, 189 Caltrans employees have died in the line of duty while building, maintaining and operating California’s transportation system including one District 11 employee who died in the last year. In this Caltrans News Flash, Assistant Deputy Director Tamie McGowen […]

This free one day course will provide personnel responsible for planning the operations of their workers in flagged, mobile, short duration, short term and incident response operations, tools and strategies to reduce the probability and severity of an incident.

The FHWA Work Zone Safety Program hosted the webinar on Transportation Management Plans (TMP), focusing on how changes can be tracked during construction and a possible way to evaluate the construction in order to generate lessons learned. Conducted by Iowa State University and the Institute for Transportation, this webinar is geared towards professionals involved in […]

As part of its Smarter Work Zones program, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is working to understand and improve the state of the practice of work zone performance management. FHWA is engaging with state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and conducting research to understand performance management best practices, challenges, and opportunities. This webinar is part of […]

This is a two-day TCC Development Course designed to enable the participants to gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts and MnDOT standard practices related to the design of temporary traffic control plans for MnDOT projects. Participants will receive an MnDOT Traffic Control Design Manual that serves as a reference and contains links to appropriate […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) Work Zone Data Exchange (WZDx) project aims to make travel on public roads safer and more efficient through ubiquitous access to data on work zone activity. Up-to-date information about dynamic conditions occurring on roads – such as construction events – can help automated driving systems (ADS) and humans […]

The implementation of social media has changed the game for public service, especially at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), where public information officers use social media (namely Facebook and Twitter) to provide breaking traffic alerts, road closure and chain control information, the stories of the hard-working maintenance professionals and much more. Join Public Information […]

The number one cause of roadway construction worker fatalities and injuries in the United States are “struck-by” incidents, where workers are run over and backed over—often by heavy equipment such as large dump trucks, paving machines, and excavators. Over 400 workers a year are killed or injured because they entered a blind spot where the […]

Hosted by the FHWA Work Zone Management Program, this webinar is on leveraging the Work Zone Intelligent Transportation System (WZITS) Implementation Tool to assist in planning WZITS deployments on highway construction projects. Work Zone Intelligent Transportation System (WZITS) technology enables solutions that serve broader Transportation System Management and Operations objectives. The Work Zone ITS Implementation […]

This course is an introductory course on the operation and application of TMAs in work zones. The course applies workable concepts, applications, and recommended practices in the deployment, operation, and removal of TMAs. Previous experience in TMA driving is not required for this course.