Policy & Procedures

State of the Art

Decisions are based upon a customer-driven comprehensive work zone traffic management policy that focuses on reducing the exposure of the road user and worker. This policy addresses high-quality design, construction, and maintenance operations, minimizing disruption to the highway user and maintaining a safe, efficient roadway environment for the traveling public and the highway worker. The organizational structure fully supports cross-cutting teams in all phases of work zone traffic management where capacity reductions adversely impact traffic flow.

To achieve state-of-the-art policies  and procedures, transportation agencies need to:

• Adopt strategic goals, objectives, and performance measures that define the Agency's expectations for allowable travel delay and crash rates.
  
• Provide an organizational structure that provides cross-cutting teams that tap the expertise and proactive involvement of all the disciplines in the development and selection of corridor TMPs and project TCPs.
  
• Re-evaluate policies and procedures to ensure:

  - Contractor's participation in the development of the TCP, responsibility for successful implementation of the TCP, and rewards for exceeding expectations, i.e., a move towards performance-based traffic control specifications.

  - Utilization of road-user costs, economic impacts to the business community, and life-cycle cost in the decision-making process.

  - Public participation during the development and selection of corridor TMPs and project TCPs.

  - Customer feedback and evaluation.

  - Traffic management principles that focus on reducing the exposure of road-users and workers are integrated into all related manuals and guidelines, such as project development schedules, design manuals, consultant selection, and the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).

• Develop and deliver training courses in work zone traffic management principles and strategies.