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2009 National Traffic Management & Work Zone Safety Conference

The acclaimed Traffic Management & Work Zone Safety Conference managed by the ARTBA - Transportation Development Foundation was held March 9-13 in Orlando, Florida, in conjunction with World o… More

Poorly Installed Signs Played a Role in the Death of a Quebec Traffic Worker: CNESST (Publication)

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Poorly installed traffic sign tripods were a major factor that caused death of Lynda Lizotte, a flagger, last December in the Monteregie region. Traffic was being detoured to the northbound track due …More

Stopping Trench Fatalities on Construction Jobsites (Publication)

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Less than two years ago, OSHA started a national emphasis program focused on reducing trench fatalities in the construction industry in response to the sharp increase of trench fatalities in a short p…More

Trimble and Purdue University Collaborate to Improve Highway Work Zone Safety (Publication)

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ARTBA members Trimble and Purdue University are partnering to develop a slowdown alert service that notifies commercial drivers to help reduce rear-end crashes, particularly in highway work zones. The…More

ODOT Renews Work Zone Warning to Motorists After Three Crews Hit in One Week (Publication)

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Three Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) workers have been hit by motorists in just one week. ODOT said all those incidents could have been prevented. ODOT is asking people to move over and slow…More

Alarming Trench Survey Highlights Risks for Workers and Employers (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles

After trench-related deaths tripled between 2011 and 2016, OSHA instituted a National Emphasis Program to reduce the number of trench fatalities in construction. The CPWR – The Center for Constructi…More

NIOSH Seeks Insight to Prevent Work-Related Crashes (Publication)

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) posted a request for information to seek comments on the draft of the NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety Strategic Plan 2020-2029 t…More

Prevention of Backing Fatalities in Construction Work Zones: Final Report (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Construction, repair, and maintenance work zones are always hazardous environments, particularly given the dangerous combinations of pedestrian workers and large trucks, bulldozers, rollers, and other…More

Integrated and Automated Systems for Safe Construction Sites (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Construction leads all industries in total worker fatal injuries in the U.S. Unsafe human behavior is considered a significant contributing factor to occupational incidents in construction. Technologi…More

More Safety Measures Could be Coming to Protect Highway Construction Workers in Indiana (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles

Following the death of Justin Nance, who was killed while working on a project in northern Hamilton County, near the intersection of U.S. 31 and 286th Street, leaders in the industry start to look for…More

Detecting Falls-from-Height with Wearable Sensors and Reducing Consequences of Occupational Fall Accidents Leveraging IoT (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Labor intensive and hazardous nature of the construction activities plays an important role on the increase of the amount of accidents and fatalities on sites. One of the most important sources of fat…More

Accidents in Construction Sites: A Study on the Causes and Preventive Approaches to Mitigate Accident Rate (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Accidents occur at construction sites are due to the faults of either the construction companies or the workers themselves. It is disheartening that the victims suffer injuries, death, loss or damage …More

MDOT Highway Worker Accidents Lead Transportation Officials to Urge Safer Driving (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles

Six Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) workers had been hit while working on state highways in the last two days. Both MDOT Executive Director Melinda McGrath and Southern District Trans…More

Fatal Injuries at Road Construction Sites Among Construction Workers (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Working at road construction sites can be dangerous. Between 2011 and 2015, 962 workers lost their lives at road construction sites, an average of 122 workers annually (BLS, 2017). This Quarterly Data…More

1657c Reliable Risk Perception for Promoting Prevention at Construction Sites (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Introduction Frequency rates of severe injury including fatality as well as occupational diseases are notably higher in construction than other industries. Studies also indicate that safety performa…More

Reducing Highway Construction Fatalities Through Improved Adoption of Safety Technologies (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Highway construction is commonly associated with high rates of worker accidents. Nevertheless, the diffusion of safety technologies such as work zone intrusion alert technology (WZIAT) within the high…More

New TDOT Flagger Signs Hope to Improve Work Zone Safety (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles

A total of 112 Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) workers have died in the line of duty since 1948. TDOT invested in new LED sign paddles in hopes of lowering the number of workers injured …More

Locating Roadworks Sites via Detecting Change in Lateral Positions of Traffic Signs Measured Relative to the Ego-Car (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Roadworks can be hazardous for both road workers and road users. Even with state-of-the-art safety measures in place, serious accidents do happen there, particularly when drivers do not heed roadwork …More

Iowa Highway Deaths Down Overall, But not in Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles

While the death toll on Iowa’s highways dropped sharply last year from a one-year-spike, the proportion of deaths that happened in work zones remained above 3 percent – a heightened level seen onl…More

Variable Speed Limit Control for Delay and Crash Reductions at Freeway Work Zone Area (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Improving operational efficiency and safety on freeway segments has long been recognized as a priority in traffic communities. This study presents a comprehensive variable speed limit (VSL) control mo…More

Safety Impacts of Queue Warning in a Connected Vehicle Environment (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Queue warning systems (QWSs) have been implemented to increase traffic safety by informing drivers about queued traffic ahead so that they can react in a timely manner to the queue. Existing QWSs rely…More

Effectiveness of End-of-Queue Warning Systems and Portable Rumble Strips on Lane Closure Crashes (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

The Texas Department of Transportation has been deploying work zone intelligent transportation systems in an effort to reduce the number of work zone crashes along the Interstate 35 (I-35) corridor. R…More

Struck-by Injuries and Prevention in the Construction Industry (Publication)

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Struck-by hazards are a leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries in construction, and have been defined as one of the Focus Four hazards identified by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Admin…More

Implementation of a Real Time Data Driven Smart Work Zone Management System to Provide Queue Alerts to Stakeholders (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Queueing frequently occurs in advance of interstate work zones, and back-of-queue crashes are of concern to all agencies. Over 30,000 crashes on 2,280 directional miles of Indiana interstates in calen…More

Highway Worker Safety: A Synthesis of Highway Practice (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 509: Highway Worker Safety identifies how state departments of transportation (DOTs) implement policies using highway worker safet…More

Smart Phone Based Forward Collision Warning Messages in Work Zones to Enhance Safety and Reduce Emissions (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

Collisions in work zones have always been a contributing factor in compromising safety on urban roadways. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and State Transportation Authorities ha…More

Improvement of Health and Safety in Construction Sites in Sri Lanka (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles

This research specifically investigated the safety perceptions, attitudes, and behavior of construction workers and the management of safety practices. By analyzing its results, this study demonstrate…More