• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • About
  • Contact
  • Listserv
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Login/Register
workzonesafety.org

National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse

Library of Resources to Improve Roadway Work Zone Safety for All Roadway Users

  • Crash Information
    • Work Zone Fatal Crashes and Fatalities
    • National Estimates of Total and Injury Work Zone Crashes
    • Work Zone Fatal Crash Facts
    • Other Work Zone Crash Related Resources
  • Flagger Information
    • Flagger Training and Certification Requirements by State
    • Flagging Resources Developed Under the FHWA Work Zone Safety Grant Program
    • Classes
    • Videos
    • Job Resources
  • Training
    • FHWA Work Zone Safety Grant Products
    • Roadway Safety Training Program
    • Online Learning Management System
    • Training Courses and Programs
    • Training Videos
    • ARTBA
    • ATSSA
    • NHI
    • NSC
    • LTAP/TTAP
    • WSU
  • Events and Conferences
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • Work Zone Safety Conferences
    • Other Work Zone Related Conferences
    • 2020 Transportation Construction Safety Events Calendar
  • Data Resources
    • Searchable Databases
    • Public Awareness
    • Laws, Regulations, Standards, and Policies
    • Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
  • Hot Topics
    • Improving Large Truck Safety in Work Zones
    • Smarter Work Zones
    • Transportation Management Plans
    • Accommodating Pedestrians
    • Rear End Crashes
    • Minimizing Construction Interferences with Traffic
    • Managing Speeds
    • Mobile/Short Duration Work Zones
    • Reducing Worker Run-overs and Back-overs
    • Working at Night
    • Reducing Worker Fatigue and Distraction Risks
You are here: Home / All entries for Scheduling

Scheduling

Drone Scheduling for Construction Site Surveillance (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Using drones to monitor construction site is a flexible approach with low manpower costs. Researchers study a drone scheduling problem in which a drone flies on a fixed path over a construction site. …More

Staying at Home is Helping CDOT Roadwork get Done (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
Due to Covid-19 pandemic traffic on roads have reduced significantly. Less traffic allows CDOT more flexibility with work schedules. CDOT leaders are optimistic about the road work that can be accompl…More

Iowa DOT – Open for Business (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
Iowa DOT’s workforce remains committed to supporting the movement of people and goods throughout Iowa so that people can play their role to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. With many people staying h…More

Lighter Traffic Allows ADOT to Expand Project Work Hours During Virus Outbreak (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
The Arizona Department of Transportation is expanding times when construction and maintenance crews can work statewide because of very light traffic during the Coronavirus outbreak. That will allow pr…More

Ohio, Pennsylvania Plan Interstate System for Managing Road Work (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
Ohio and Pennsylvania will soon start a project to develop an interstate system called the Work Zone Reservation and Traveler Information System, or WZRTIS, to manage road construction projects. The W…More

Minimizing Work Zone Mobility Impacts Using Project Coordination (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Under the Every Day Counts program, the Federal Highway Administration has been promoting technologies and practices that can shorten the project delivery process, enhance durability and safety, r…More

Optimizing Work-Zone Schedule with Floating Car Data Considering Traffic Diversion and Managed Lanes (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Work zones have become the second largest contributor to the nonrecurring delay disruptions of traffic on US highways. The development of a sound model to minimize the total cost (i.e., road user…More

Extension of Safety Assessment Tool for Construction Work Zone Phasing Plans (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Engineering practitioners must balance safety and mobility when evaluating different construction phasing alternatives for highway work zones. There is a need for practitioner guidance and practical t…More

Review of Literature and Maintenance Practices at State Transportation Agencies (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
This report reviews relevant literature related to maintenance scheduling, prioritization, and methodologies. It discusses Kentucky Transportation Center’s current approach to maintenance activities…More

Study on the Day-Based Work Zone Scheduling Problem in Urban Road Networks Based on the Day-to-Day Traffic Assignment Model (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Many work zones exist in the urban road network and have a great negative impact on city traffic. Finding the optimal work zone schedule can minimize the negative impact of work zones on traffic. This…More

Modeling Highway Performance Under Various Short-Term Work Zone Configurations (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Federal rules mandate state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to measure and report on the performance of highways within their jurisdictions. Those rules support a…More

Time-Dependent Transportation Network Design Considering Construction Impact (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
A traditional discrete network design problem (DNDP) always assumes transportation infrastructure projects to be one-time events and ignores travelers’ delays caused by construction work. In fact, i…More

Evaluation of Traffic Control Options in Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Lane closures for work zones along freeways produce bottlenecks. These bottlenecks are problematic due to loss of capacity and excessive lane changes, which impact the facility performance represented…More

Application of Work Zone Road User Costs to Determine Schedule-Related Incentives and Disincentives (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Time-related contract clauses are primarily designed to encourage contractors through incentives and disincentives to complete construction projects on or ahead of schedule. Highway agencies have gain…More

Scheduling Work Zones in Multi-Modal Networks, Phase I: Scheduling Work Zones in Transportation Service Networks (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
The purpose of this project is to study the optimal scheduling of work zones so that they have minimum negative impact (e.g., travel delay, gas consumption, accidents, etc.) on transport service vehic…More

Optimal Trade-Offs between Construction Cost and Traffic Delay for Highway Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Highway work zones often cause traffic congestion, resulting in increased road-user delays and vehicle emissions. These negative impacts of highway work zones can be minimized by a number of mitigatin…More

Optimizing Scheduling of Long-Term Highway Work Zone Projects (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
The impacts of work zone activities can be summarized into the following types: safety impact (on both motorists and workers), mobility impact, economic considerations, environmental concerns, user co…More

Application of Work Zone Road User Costs to Determine Schedule-Related Incentives and Disincentives: Conceptual Framework (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Time-related contract clauses are primarily designed to encourage contractors through incentives and disincentives to complete construction projects on or ahead of schedule. Highway agen…More

Work Zone Planning in Pavement Rehabilitation: Integrating Cost, Duration, and User Effects (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
This paper describes a methodology developed to support decision makers in planning work zones for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation interventions, integrating cost, duration, and user effects. …More

Optimization of Renewal-Based Project Scheduling in an Urban Network (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
In this paper we develop a mathematical decision model and solution method to schedule the sequence of work zones before construction starts. The model is distinguished to quantitatively measure the t…More

Integrating Human Factors and Operational Research in a Multidisciplinary Investigation of Road Maintenance (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
There has been limited collaboration between researchers in human factors and operational research disciplines, particularly in relation to work in complex, distributed systems. This study aimed to in…More

Optimization of Work Zone Schedule Considering Time-Varying Traffic Diversion (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Highway maintenance may cause excessive delay on transportation corridors and networks. Diverting traffic from congested highway work zones and accelerating maintenance progress can mitigate the adver…More

Optimizing Highway Performance: Meeting the Customers’ Needs (Publication)

Resource Type: Brochures and Fact Sheets
To preserve and enhance the Nation's highway network and meet the challenges of continued growth, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is developing a new program initiative called "Optimizing Hi…More

Automated Constructibility Analysis of Work-Zone Traffic-Control Planning (Publication)

Resource Type: Articles, Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Constructibility, in simple words, is the ability to construct effectively. This study involved the development of a prototype system to perform highway constructibility analysis of traffic-control pl…More

Computer Model for Evaluating and Scheduling Freeway Work-Zone Lane Closures (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
QUEWZ is a computer model that was developed in 1982 as a tool for planning and scheduling freeway work-zone operations. The model analyzes traffic flow through lane closures in freeway work zones and…More

Developing a Scheduling Tool for Work Zones on Houston Freeways (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
In Houston the condition of the existing highway network has deteriorated at a far greater rate than can be maintained without affecting traffic severely or endangering the safety of maintenance crews…More
Next Page
Copyright © 2021 American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse is a project of the ARTBA Transportation Development Foundation. It is operated in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Highway Administration and Texas A&M Transportation Institute. | Copyright Statement · Legal Notices/Policies · Disclaimer
American Road and Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation, American Road and Transportation Builders Association U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Texas A&M Transportation Institute