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The Operations Discipline

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 /.

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The Operations Discipline

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  1. The Operations Discipline

  2. 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/ OTS - Welcome Package

  3. 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) OTS - Welcome Package

  4. Operations Discipline • Headquarters (Program Office) • HOTO • HOTM • HOFM • Resource Center • Division Offices OTS - Welcome Package

  5. Operations Organization • Office of Transportation Operations (HOTO) • MUTCD • Work Zone • Road Weather • Emergency Transportation Operations OTS - Welcome Package

  6. Resource Center – Operations TSTGrant Zammit – Team Manager Ray Murphy Paul Olson Nathaniel Price (Part time) Jim Sturrock Chung Tran Ralph Volpe Ken Wood Eddie Curtis Rick Denny Eric Ferron Ed Fok Daniel Grate Greg Jones Jim McCarthy (Part time) http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenter/teams/operations/index.cfm OTS - Welcome Package

  7. 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. OTS - Welcome Package

  8. Operations TST • Provide Technical Assistance in Program Areas • Division requests • Training • Technology deployment • Assistance to Program Office in developing policies OTS - Welcome Package

  9. Division Specialists • Many Divisions combine Safety and Operations duties into one position • Divisions responsible for • Technical assistance • Program oversight OTS - Welcome Package

  10. Ops TST training • 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 OTS - Welcome Package

  11. 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/

  12. What types of training do you currently offer and to what audience? • Any assistance necessary? If so, what type? OTS - Welcome Package

  13. Possible additional training needs? • Human Factors and TCD? • Series on Traffic Engineering? • Traffic Signal Design and Operations? • TS Maintenance? • Nighttime WZ Design? OTS - Welcome Package

  14. Ken.wood@dot.gov708-283-4340 OTS - Welcome Package

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