William Lohr, P.E Federal Highway Administration Minnesota Division Office

1. William Lohr, P.E Federal Highway Administration Minnesota Division Office

2. Every Day CountsA Toolkit forShortening Project Delivery • The toolkit is developed to guide and support State and local agencies in the use of underutilized flexibilities in the law • Aids in development of processes and agreements that minimize duplication of effort and reduce delays in project implementation

3. Project Delivery Opportunitiesfor EDC • Planning • NEPA • Right of Way (ROW) & Utilities • Design • Construction

4. Planning & Environmental Linkages (PEL) Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • PEL provides transportation agencies with tools and resources that introduce environmental considerations early in planning and support carrying planning analyses and decisions into the NEPA process. • Benefits: • Seamless decision–making process • Minimizes duplication of effort • Promotes environmental stewardship • Reduces delays in project • implementation

5. Expanding Use of Programmatic Agreements Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • Expansion of new and existing programmatic agreements to a regional or national level will establish a streamlined process for handling routine environmental requirements for commonly encountered project types. • Benefits: • Improved project decision-making • Reduction in project delivery times • (process streamlining). • Mechanism to save and focus staff time.

6. In-Lieu Fees & Mitigation Banking Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • Increased usage of banking and in-lieu fee programs rather than project-by-project mitigation will expedite highway project delivery. • Benefits: • Creates a more streamlined and • concurrent process • Improves and expedites project • delivery • Reduce the need for piece-meal, • project-by-project mitigation • Expedited regulatory review and permit processing

7. Enhanced Technical Assistance Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • FHWA will demonstrate the effectiveness of these key streamlining measures on a small number of select active EIS projects facing challenges with ongoing environmental issues and/or interagency coordination and other concerns that are effecting (or have the potential to effect) the timely completion of the project development process. • Benefits: • Identification and implementation of solutions to resolve reasons for delay. • Facilitates interagency coordination and collaboration

8. Flexibilities in Right of Way Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • Evaluation, clarification and demonstration of the available flexibilities already existing in FHWA’s current project delivery ROW processes and policies. • Benefits: • Improved project decision-making • Reduction in project delivery times • Cost containment

9. Flexibilities in Utility Relocation Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • The initiative will spotlight existing flexibilities currently in place under Federal law and regulations and describe techniques that foster effective utility coordination during project development which warrant more widespread use. • Benefits: • Improved communication, coordination and cooperation; • Collaborative decisions to accommodate or relocate utilities; • Shared risk, gains and costs; • Increased owner control; and • Reductions in project development, construction time and project costs.

10. Construction Manager / General Contractor (CMGC) Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • CM/GC occupies the middle ground between the traditional (DBB) and (DB). CM/GC provides for project acceleration by allowing the owner to contract with a construction manager early in the design process and agree to a negotiated price for construction later before the design is complete. • Benefits: • Reduces Costs • No compromise on quality • Enhances potential for creativity

11. Design Build Planning NEPA ROW / Utilities Design / Construction • With DB project delivery, the designer-builder assumes responsibility for the majority of the design work and all construction activities. This provides the designer-builder with increased flexibility to be innovative, along with greater responsibility and risk. • Benefits: • Considerable time savings over the traditional process of Design-Bid-Build (DBB) • Allows design to be tailored to contractor’s resources • Allows quality evaluation factors and best-value selection criteria when selecting contractors

12. Accelerating Technology and Innovation • Every Day Counts is not about inventing the next "big thing“ • It's about taking effective, proven and market-ready technologies and getting them into widespread use • By advancing 21st century solutions, we can improve safety, reduce congestion and keep America moving

13. Warm Mix Asphalt • Allows a reduction in asphalt mixture production & placement temperatures • Benefits: • Provides better compaction • Improves pavement performance • Reduce worker fatigue • Reduces fossil fuel consumption • Reduces CO2e & other emissions • Extend paving season • Allows for longer hauling distances

14. Prefabricated Bridge Elements & Systems • Prefabricated bridge elements and systems manufactured on-site or off-site, under controlled conditions, and brought to the job location ready to install • Benefits: • Reduces onsite construction time • Minimizes traffic disruption – months to days • Improves construction zone safety • Improved product quality – controlled environment, cure times, easier access, etc. constructability of bridge designs • Reduces environmental impact

15. Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil • Fast, cost-effective bridge support method using alternating layers of compacted fill and layers of geosynthetic reinforcement to provide bridge support. • Lots of Benefits: • Eliminates approach slab or construction • joint at the bridge-to-road interface • Reduced construction time (Complete in days!) • Less dependent on weather conditions • Flexible design – easily modified for unforeseen site conditions • Built with common equipment and materials

16. Safety Edge • Sloped pavement edge at a 30º angle which allows drivers a more controlled re-entry back onto the roadway after tire drop-off • Benefits: • Reduces crashes due to edge • drop-off and uncontrolled recovery • Minimal cost (less than 1% on • 2-lane highway) • Consolidated edge reduces edge raveling, increases durability

17. Adaptive Signal Control • ACS measures traffic flow and adjusts signal timing to promote smooth flow of traffic along arterial streets • Benefits: • ACS improves travel time • reliability, reduces congestion, and smoothes traffic flow • Increases long-term viability of traffic signal operations • Widely deployable & uses existing control equipment

18. Thank you!