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Examples of Rule Implementation: What Some Agencies are Doing

Some agencies are further along than others in implementing polices and practices that the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule either requires or encourages. While what they are doing may not yet be fully compliant with the Rule, their current practices still serve as good examples and case studies of how to work toward Rule implementation.

• Examples
• Case Studies

Examples

• Work Zone Policies

• Assessing and Managing Work Zone Impacts

• Use of Work Zone Data

• Work Zone Training

• Process Reviews

• Significant Projects

• Transportation Management Plans (TMPs)

• Public Information and Outreach

Case Studies

• Summaries of agency processes for achieving compliance with the Rule, to include how they developed their policy, their significant projects definition, and TMP guidance, as well as other Rule components, and how they are going about ensuring their projects meet the Rule requirements.
  • Maryland State Highway Administration
  • Michigan Department of Transportation
• Caltrans I-15 Rehabilitation Project - By using the types of practices emphasized in the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule, Caltrans was able to successfully complete this project with minimal impact to travelers and the surrounding community.
• "Holding Down the Fort", by Frank Cippel, article in December 2007 issue of Roads & Bridges, Volume: 45 Number: 12. This article provides a good example of how the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation used many of the practices that the Rule promotes to successfully undertake a major reconstruction project on the heavily traveled I-279 Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel in the city of Pittsburgh.