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Connected vehicle technology could curtail work zone crashes
Learn more from Equipment World about connected vehicle (CV) technology & how it can be used to reduce work-zone related crashes caused by distracted driving.
November 16, 2018
Roadbuilding
As latest fatal work zone crash claims Ill. worker, Silver Star Construction turns to new technology to protect flaggers
Construction companies are brainstorming new ways to protect construction crews after the death of an employee working as a flagger. More on Equipment World.
September 18, 2018
Roadbuilding
Iowa DOT testing audible warnings on attenuators to better protect road crews
The Iowa Department of Transportation is trying a new type of attenuator to protect workers & drivers in work zones, &, as the agency reports, so far, so good.
July 26, 2018
Roadbuilding
Work Zones Get Smart: Mobile, cheaper technologies making safety easier to achieve
A plethora of affordable intelligent traffic systems are making smart work-zone systems achievable for DOTs, which increases work-zone safety and more.
May 22, 2018
Roadbuilding
ARTBA graduates 14 transportation construction pros in second round of safety certification program
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation announces 14 additional transportation construction professionals have finished its Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals (SCTPP) program. Fifty-five were in the SCTPP “inaugural class” that finished in January. ARTBA launched the program in fall 2016 as a means of creating a safety benchmark for “future civil engineering and […]
March 20, 2017
Roadbuilding
Missouri Coalition of Roadway Safety present highway safety awards
The Missouri Coalition of Roadway Safety (MCRS) recently presented five awards for statewide highway safety programs and 13 awards for regional programs at the 2016 Traffic Safety and Blueprint Conference. The awards are presented every two years. “We very much appreciate the efforts of all who are involved to encourage safe driving, and we will […]
October 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
Montana DOT supervisor killed in equipment accident inside work zone
A Montana Department of Transportation worker was killed while doing shoulder work on a highway in Missoula County. According to NBC Montana, section supervisor Jason Rolls was working with two other DOT employees on Highway 200, using equipment to mix sand and salt. The equipment wasn’t secured correctly, the station reports, and it gave way. The […]
August 25, 2015
Roadbuilding
Missouri DOT workers discuss work zone crash, offer warnings
This time of year headlines are full of highway work zone accidents, mainly because of the perfect storm of transportation construction and summer travel coinciding. In this video, four workers with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) recall a crash on May 27 in which a motorist struck the vehicles they operated. No major injuries […]
June 23, 2015
Roadbuilding
National Work Zone Awareness Week is March 23-27
“Expect the Unexpected” is the theme for this year’s National Work Zone Awareness Week, a campaign designed to promote safe driving through highway work zones and construction sites. First launched in 2000 by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA), and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), […]
March 10, 2015
Roadbuilding
Making the work zone less of a war zone
Even though highway work zone fatalities have been on a big decline for the past 10 years, the highway work zone remains a dangerous place, for workers and for motorists. Despite what highway users may think, work zones are much more lethal to motorists than to construction workers. Following a peak of 165 workers killed […]
February 10, 2015
Safety
Road worker killed, 2 others injured after driver crashes head-on into Louisiana work zone
A road construction worker died earlier this week, succumbing to injuries sustained in a work zone crash in Louisiana. According to a report from KTVE/KARD, workers were installing reflectors northbound on Highway 165 near Caldwell Parish Tuesday when the crew’s tar machine broke down.  A pickup then pulled up behind the workers with a flashing arrow board to […]
December 19, 2014
Safety
Wisconsin DOT first in U.S. to test reflective orange lane paint for making work zones more visible to drivers
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has announced that it will be the first DOT in the United States to test a reflective orange paint in an attempt to make construction work zones more visible to drivers passing by. WisDOT has applied the paint to three sections of pavement on Interstate 94, to the east and […]
December 9, 2014
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