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FOCUS STATE INITIATIVE Work Zone Communications and Outreach Workshop April 19-20, 2005

FOCUS STATE INITIATIVE Work Zone Communications and Outreach Workshop April 19-20, 2005 Regina McElroy and Roemer Alfelor Office of Transportation Operations Federal Highway Administration. What are Focus State Initiatives?. Resulted from the FHWA 2004 Spring Business Meeting

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FOCUS STATE INITIATIVE Work Zone Communications and Outreach Workshop April 19-20, 2005

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  1. FOCUS STATE INITIATIVE Work Zone Communications and Outreach Workshop April 19-20, 2005 Regina McElroy and Roemer Alfelor Office of Transportation Operations Federal Highway Administration

  2. What are Focus State Initiatives? • Resulted from the FHWA 2004 Spring Business Meeting • Proposed by Division Administrators • Major Focus Areas: • Safety • Mobility and Productivity: Congestion • Mobility and Productivity: Infrastructure • Global Connectivity • Environment • National Homeland Security • Organizational Excellence

  3. Why Focus State Initiative? • Tipping point • Lead States • Focused Efforts

  4. Work Zone Focus State Initiative • Focus Area: Communications and Outreach • Goal: Making Work Zones Work Better • WZ Mobility and Safety Program Elements: • Decision Making Framework (e.g. “The Rule”) • Tool Box • Training/Technical Assistance • Outreach

  5. Why WZ Communication/Outreach? • Supports the WZ decision-making framework • Identified in WZ Self-Assessment • Opportunity exists -- “Low hanging fruit” • High improvement at low cost • Strategies deployable in short time

  6. WZ Focus State Initiative Process • Get commitment from Division Administrators • Identify State participants • Conduct Initiative (e.g. Workshop) • Obtain good ideas • Develop action plan • Provide technical assistance

  7. Goals of the Workshop • Overall: Raise awareness and advance state of the practice • Present existing strategies for communications and outreach • Identify barriers to effective communications • Outcome: Develop outreach strategy and action plan • Post-workshop: State and FHWA to work together to implement plan.

  8. Role of Communications/Outreach • Provide information to the public so they can make travel decisions • Promote safety and reduce congestion/delay in work zones • Decrease public dissatisfaction with work zones • Help make work zones work better!

  9. Relevance to Final Rule • Policy-Driven Focus • Systems level approach • Planning • Design • Implementation • Performance Assessment • Transportation management strategies • Transportation Management Plans • Traffic Control Plan • Public Information and Outreach Plan • Partner-Driven Approach • Flexible, Scalable and Adaptable

  10. Workshop Agenda • Presentation: WZ Self-Assessment • Group Discussion: Barriers to Communications • Presentations: Existing Practices • Breakout Session: Overcoming Barriers • Breakout Session: Develop Strategy and Action Plan • Presentations: State Strategy and Action Plan

  11. Logistics • Lunch • Breaks • Rest Rooms • Phone/E-mail • Hotel • Others

  12. Introduction • Name, Agency and Title • General expectations from the workshop • State DOT: Description of Specific Upcoming Construction Project and Need for Outreach Strategy

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