CD Library
AASHTO 2002 Roadside Design Guide
Source: NHI, U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration, LTAP
Video Supplement to PowerPoint Presentation
Advanced Rural Transportation Systems: Rural Challenges and the Application of Advanced Technology Must be a “Community” Investment
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
This presentation focuses on the rural user's needs, the stakeholders, the applicable technologies, projects, and resources for advanced rural transportation systems in seven development areas. The development areas are: rural crash prevention and security; emergency services; traffic management; transit and mobility; operations and maintenance; travel and tourism; and surface transportation weather.
Anti-Icing/RWIS Training
Source: The development of this training program was made possible by the cooperation of SICOP, the AURORA Snow and Ice Consortium, and several participating governmental agencies through AASHTO Pooled fund program.
Across North America significant improvements in winter maintenance have been taking place. Traditional roadway snow and ice control strategies are being revolutionized through the use if RWIS (Road Weather Information System) technology and anti-icing techniques. Training is key to the successful integration of these new tools into a winter maintenance program.
The AI/RWIS CBT is a self-paced, interactive multimedia computer-based training program that follows sound adult learning principles. The program requires interaction by the student beyond simply moving from one page to the next. Practice and review exercises, fun facts, and links to key word definitions, a glossary, a Knowledge Base and Internet sites add to the experience.
After completing the lessons comprised of core anti-icing and RWIS content, students learn how to put their new knowledge into practice. In the Scenario Room, students battle winter events using tools in a simulated winter maintenance facility. This environmental helps students hone winter maintenance decision-making skills.
Basic Traffic Control for Short Duration Activities: A Modular Course
Source: ATSSA
This is a great way to train workers at your convenience. You can even develop toolbox talks using this CD-ROM that covers a variety of subject areas. Users can mix and match these modules depending or their needs, to build a customized course. Depending on the number of modules used, a short course could be as long as one hour or last up to three days.
Bicycle Safer Journey
Source: U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration
This interactive CD-ROM is a virtual journey designed to increase your awareness of bicycle safety. Its use is intended for the general public, road user, safety advocates, and safety professionals.
Catalogs and Interactive Course Registrar: Downloadable Continuing Education
Source: Northwestern University Center for Public Safety
Register within minutes with this easy to use CD-rom. Download Northwestern University Center for Public Safety's 2004-2005
Police Training, Police Management and Accident Investigation Catalog
Publications Catalog
Memorabilia Catalog
Transportation Engineering Catalog
(PC Windows and Mac Compatible)
Common Sense Solutions to Intersection Safety Problems
Source: FHWA
Contains workshop materials which present a basic understanding of intersection safety issues using minimal or uncomplicated technical jargons. Presents a "How to" information for common safety tasks that do not require an engineer, as well as background information on safety tasks that require an engineer. PowerPoint slides (with Instructor's notes) provide a resource for a local transportation manager who is responsible for educating his constituents (citizens, elected officials, law enforcement, etc) on basic intersection safety issues or concerns.
Comprehensive Intersection Resource Library
Source: Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety
Compilation of resources and educational materials about traditional signalized and unsignalized intersections, roundabouts, highway/ rail grade crossings, and nontraditional intersections
Core Curriculum Matrix Development
Source: National Highway Institute
Contains the work competencies for four levels of achievement for five disciplines of highway engineering technicians. Also contains a comprehensive library of technician training references. The TCCC is a partnership between the FHWA, State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), and the highway transportation industry to support the training to support the training of the highway construction personnel. The Council is comprised of approximately 25 individuals representing the FHWA, American Association of State Highway Transportation (AASHTO), State DOTs, Associated General Contractors (AGC), American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA), American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), National Partnership for Highway Quality (NPHQ), and other industry associations. The TCCC's mission is to provide leadership at the national level, develop and maintain a national curriculum for various transportation disciplines, identify training and certification requirements, and coordinate/ facilitate training efforts.
Driver Education Work Zone Awareness Program
Source: Illinois DOT, ATSSA, VDOT
This presentation was developed by the Illinois DOT's Bureau of Operations. This presentation was sent to every IL driver's Ed program to make new drivers aware of dangers in highway work zones.
Driving Modern Roundabouts
Source: Washington State DOT
A 10 minute film that shows drivers how to correctly use roundabouts.
Endangered Species Act Build Smart
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
To provide the best possible quality of life and protect our diverse environment construction activity must be planned, designed, and executed with the highest possible regard for the environment. For construction and development, federal agencies have been assigned a special leadership role to demonstrate best construction practices. The federal agencies and state departments of transportation are working hard to provide regional programs and training for ESA that relate specifically to highway construction and maintenance. These two CDs are designed to acquaint highway construction inspection personnel with the ESA and to help them direct their contractor to Build Smart. The CDs provide information useful to both the experienced and inexperienced inspector.
Flagging in the Work Zone: Safety in Your Hands (10 Minute DVD)
Source: ODOT Photo/ Video Services
Covers proper flagging practices and techniques that help make work zones safer for flaggers, workers and roadway users. Produced by the Oregon Department of Transportation's Technology Transfer (T2) Center and Photo/ Video Services Section. Funding provided by the Western Federal Lands Division of the Federal Highway Administration.
Good Practices: Incorporating Safety into Resurfacing and Restoration Projects
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
Integrating safety improvements into resurfacing and restoration projects is a subject of long-standing interest by Federal, State, and local transportation agencies. A Scan Tour was conducted to identify and subsequently observe good practices in this area. The scan team visited Colorado, Iowa, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington State. The Scan Team met with each State DOT and county agencies in three States and observed completed projects in all States. Despite wide variations in agency operating environments (e. g., funding levels and flexibility, public expectations, environmental regulations), the report identifies a set of common issues host agencies confronted in developing integrated resurfacing-safety improvement programs, and also observed a set of common success factors.
Good practices are reported within institutional and technical categories. Good institutional practices include commitment to integrate safety into pavement preservation projects, establishing a system that allows for multifunded projects (pavement, safety) and allocates cost items by fund, allowing for flexible project development cycles, strengthening State-local relationships, developing an expedient procedure for acquiring minor rights-of-way, and engaging safety experts in the project development process. Good technical practices include identifying targeted safety countermeasures, making selective geometric improvements, installing traffic control devices and guidance features, improving roadsides, and improving private and public access points.
Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities
Source: AASHTO
The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance on the planning, design, and operation of pedestrian facilities along streets and highways. Specifically, the guide focuses on identifying effective measures for accommodating pedestrians on public rights-of-way. Appropriate methods for accommodating pedestrians, which vary among roadway and facility types, are described in this guide. The primary audiences for this manual are planners, roadway designers, and transportation engineers, whether at the state or local level, the majority of whom make decisions on a daily basis that affect pedestrians. This guide also recognizes the profound effect that land use planning and site design have on pedestrian mobility and addresses these topics as well.
Guidelines for the Selection of W-Beam Barrier Terminals
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Division
This CD has been prepared to provide information to designers and to construction/maintenance personnel responsible for selecting and properly installing the most appropriate terminal design at any site. In addition to showing the actual crash performance of each terminal type, this CD provides guidance on proper site grading and presents real-world examples of both appropriate and inappropriate installations.
High-Performance Concrete Structural Designer’s Guide
Source: FHWA Resource Center
Improving Safety, Reliability and Security
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
Perspectives on Surface Transportation Management and Operations: Congestion, Security, Public Safety, Weather
Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (ISHDM)
Source: Federal Highway Administration turner Fairbank Highway Research Center
Road safety evaluation software that marshals available knowledge about safety into a more useful form for highway planners and designers. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been developing IHSDM with initial focus on two-lane rural highways. 2003 release of IHSDM for two-lane rural highways is now available for testing and evaluation purposes.
Introduction to Geosynthetics in Transportation
Source: Geosynthetics Materials Association
Managing Pavement Edge Drop-offs
Source: Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety
Multi-media record of the proceeding, presentations and documentation of a workshop, "Managing Pavement Edge Drop-offs to Improve Safety and Reduce Tort Liability," which covered pavement edge drop-off issues and treatment options available to reduce associated crashes. Contains workshop presentations defining crash, tort liability and research issues as well as presentations on practical solutions by highway agencies in Texas, Kansas, Georgia, Idaho, New York and Gwinnett County, Georgia. Also includes a presentations on the potential problem caused by shoulder wedge buildup due to multiple overlays.
Modern Sewer Desing- CD Rom Version
Source: National Corrugated Steel Pipe Association and American Iron and Steel Institute
Detailed discussion on hydrology and hydraulic design, site planning, disposal methods, environmental considerations, economics, selection, durability, and installation of sewer systems for all uses. Information presented in both traditional US and metric units and includes numerous detailed design examples. CD Rom also includes durability prediction and depth of cover software developed by the National Corrugated Steel Pipe Association.
Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety Resource Set
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
This electronic resource contains information on pedestrians/bicycle safety guidelines, crash types, countermeasures, outreach tools, technology and much more. The purpose of this electronic resource is to heighten your awareness and provide some helpful information on how to make your communities safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Recommended Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in the Superpave Mix Design Method
Source: Transportation Research Board
Research developed guidelines for incorporating reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in the Superpave system and prepare a manual that can be used by laboratory and field technicians.
Road Safety Fundamental
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
Contents: Road Safety Fundamentals September 2005, Road Safety Fundamentals Field Reference Guide, Instructors Notes for RSF Train-the-Trainer Workshop, Participant's Notebook for RSF Workshop
Road System Traffic Safety Review
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
This training course builds on the Product Demonstration Showcase held in Ukiah California in September, 2004. It describes a method of systematically reviewing roads to make improvements
Safer Journey: Interactive Pedestrian Safety Awareness
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
This CD-ROM was developed to improve the level of pedestrian knowledge for all road users and safety practitioners.
Standard Specifications for Transportation Materials and Methods of Sampling and Testing
Source: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
"The Materials Book" contains 386 materials specifications and test methods commonly used in the construction of highway facilities. The specifications have been developed and maintained by states' highway and transportation departments through their participation in AASHTO's Subcommittee on Materials. Also included are ASTM specifications pertinent to the transportation industry that have been approved and accepted by the member states. With more than 300 specifications in 3924 pages, it is organized into two parts, Materials and Testing. Each part is comprised of two volumes each to make the book more manageable.
Street Pave
Source: ACPA
StreetPave is the latest in thickness design technology for streets and local road pavements. This software utilizes new engineering analyses to produce optimized concrete pavement thicknesses for city, municipal, county, and state roadways. It includes an asphalt cross-section design for the load carrying capacity requirement. A "Life Cycle Cost Analysis" module allows you to perform a detailed cost/benefit analysis and make informed decisions on your pavement design project.
The Interactive Highway Safety Experience
Source: U.S. DOT FHWA
Moving Safely Across America, The Interactive Highway Safety Experience, was developed to improve the level of highway safety knowledge for the average driver. Research indicates that driver error is associated with a significant number of highway crashes. Many of these drivers are unaware of, or have underestimated the risks and/or consequences associated with various roadway behaviors.
The National Wood in Transportation Program
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Services, U.S. DOT FHWA, National Wood In Transportation Information Center
Information on Modern Timber Bridges in the United States, 1988-2001
The Roadway Delineation Practices Handbook
Source: FHWA
The Roadway Delineation Practices Handbook was developed to assist design, traffic, and maintenance engineering personnel in making determinations about roadway delineation systems, including the appropriate system for a given situation, when a system has reached the end of its useful life, and how to maintain a quality delineation system. It may also be valuable to consulting engineers, educators, and students.
Winter Maintenance Training Materials Volume 2
Source: Salt Institute
Directed at local government public works technical personnel from the Public Works Director and Engineer, to the Road/Street Superintendent and public works technicians. Reviews important preparations prior to operations, discusses actual plowing and spreading operations, including the use of a variety of equipment, materials and techniques. Emphasizes sensible salting, looking at the various ways that salt can be used, by itself or in conjunction with other materials with a discussion on application rates. Covers deicing, prewetting, anti-icing and pickup and disposal operations along with relevant information for special areas and considerations, including post storm cleanup and record keeping. Includes technical information sheet and reference document addressing salt and the environment.
Work Zone Safety for Roadway Maintenance Operations
Source: New Jersey Division of Highway Safety
The Work Zone Safety for Roadway Maintenance Operations project was developed by the New Jersey Division of Highway Safety in 2000, to reduce roadway worksite injuries and fatalities through development of Project objectives are to:
-Develop an easy to use, computer-based education training system for roadway work zone safety training
-Assure that 25 percent of New Jersey public works departments have at least one employee successfully complete the training program during 2000
-Create a computer-based "chat room" in which trainees can discuss problems and issues