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This session will lay out a roadmap showing you how to develop, implement, train staff, and continually improve a telematics solution. Dakota County will share what systems they used, the challenges they met, and how they saw a return on investment through idle reduction, driver behavior, a reduction in salt usage, and speed monitoring.
Read MoreCreating a snow plan and other policy documents addressing how your agency will conduct winter maintenance is a daunting task. You are always worried that you are forgetting something. Take a look at how several hundred agencies in Canada are using a web-based application to guide them through the process and creates the plan for them.
Read MoreDon’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from an NWS forecaster about resources available to public works. We’ll discuss and demonstrate new-fangled tools like the NWS widget, hourly weather graph, and NWSChat. We’ll also cover the concept of Decision Support Services and basic radar interpretation.
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This session will demonstrate ways the Alaska Department of Transportation; Public Facilities has recently dealt with numerous winter warm weather events in the face of drastically reduced operating budgets through improved forecasting technology, chemical use and changes to equipment.
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This presentation will share findings from a study conducted by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering on behalf of CTDOT on winter highway maintenance best practices. The study examines practices on material use, impact of chemicals, corrosion, performance, safety, cost and identification of advanced methods and materials.
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The Emergency Management Committee developed this position statement on The Role of Public Works in Widespread Health and Medical Crises.
Read MoreThe 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card (CIRC) was released on January 18, 2016. The report card was developed to present the state of municipal infrastructure and the state of asset management in Canada.
Read MoreJR Fellow Presentation: Waterfront Redevelopment and Transportation Planning in Auckland, New Zealan
In June 2016, Bruce Kaplan traveled to Auckland, New Zealand as an APWA Jennings Randolph International Fellow. This fellowship allowed him to conduct a study tour and meet with members of Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, Auckland Development, and the Auckland Urban Design Panel, to discuss New Zealand’s largest city’s recent experience with downtown waterfront redevelopment, intermodal terminal redevelopment, regional government, and its transportation system’s challenge of accommodating present and projected rapid urban growth. In this presentation, he will discuss his findings from the study tour as well as elaborate on the differences he discovered between infrastructure planning in New Zealand and in the United States.
Read MoreOvercoming Political Pressure and Community Stigma When Evaluating Tree Removal for Public Works Pro
When determining options for maintaining a particular roadway asset, Sumpter County found itself evaluating alternatives which either preserved or removed a pair of 300-hundred old oak trees. Community opposition and political stigma issues needed to be addressed. Find out how the issues were resolved.
Read MoreArt is viewed by the public as imaginative, creative, whimsical, forward-thinking, but practical? NOT! Civil engineering is viewed by the same public as functional, utilitarian, but edgy? NOT! Minneapolis’ Public Works Department and the Art in Public Spaces Division have a unique relationship whereby both reach out to each other for advice and perspective.