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Many public works garages were first built for vehicles that were much smaller and with workplace environments that are minimal by today’s standards. While many cities have made additions and…
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Read MoreMany agencies know they need a strategic plan, but don’t have the budget to hire a consultant or facilitator. Discover how to do-it-yourself with a solid, simple process and lots…
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what it takes to win an APWA project award? Now is your chance to learn. Hear from sponsors and consultant teams for three of the most…
Read MoreAfter Hurricane Matthew, a 48-foot raw water main serving southeastern North Carolina failed. More than 12.5 million gallons of daily supply serving 300,000 people was being lost in a location made…
Read MorePlanned and presented by APWA’s Fleet Management Committee. Fleet Managers are responsible for the selection, procurement, use and care, and remarketing of their organizations’ fleet assets. A successful fleet manager…
Read MoreWelcome to the 21st Century! City of Surrey’s Public Works’ staff are proud to share industry leading projects. Learn from our successes for your future projects, saving your organization time and money. Our presentation will start with our history, going back over a century ago to the year 1912 with our first Operations Centre, or “Works Yard” as we called it, located in Cloverdale. At that time, Surrey’s population was approximately 3,500 residents. By 1962, with a growing population nearing 75,000 residents and a growing number of staff and equipment, the “Works Yard” was relocated to a new site at 66 Avenue and 148 Street. In 2016, the City of Surrey celebrated its grand opening of the state-of-the-art Operations Centre that will serve a community population of 550,000 and growing for generations to come. The new facility hosts four Departments including Engineering (Operations), Parks Operations, Facilities Management, and By-law Enforcement. In total, over 400 staff report out of the building, plus another 150+ in the summer. The site has three fully enclosed buildings including: The main Operations Facility at 114,000 sq. ft.; Fleet & Garage building at 54,000 sq. ft.; and The warehouse building at 14,000 sq. ft. In addition to the Operations centre, our presentation will cover multiple state-of-the-art projects the City has completed over past two years, such as: Installed British Columbia’s largest municipal RWIS and AVL system; Completed construction of a South Surrey Operations centre; Expanded our fleet of industry leading spreaders; Turn by turn route assistance; Product control and automation.
Read MoreBusinesses and public agencies around the country are reporting driver shortages and searching for other good, quality workers. In this session, we will discuss the hiring practices of the Twin Cities and Schaumburg, Illinois. The discussion will include the challenges faced in recruiting and hiring a diverse and changing workforce and the trainee programs that Minneapolis and St. Paul have incorporated for developing a highly-trained CDL workforce.
Read MoreAny vehicle, regardless of who or what is driving it, has limits in the kinds of atmospheric weather and road surface conditions that it can handle. Take this opportunity to hear and discuss the results of an ongoing FHWA research project on how automated vehicles perform in adverse weather. Among the issues to be covered are how well the vehicles’ sensors and navigation systems perform when nearby vehicles and pavement markings are partially obscured; how road weather providers can best communicate information on current weather and road conditions to automated vehicles; and how an automated vehicle can determine whether a planned trip will be within the weather limits of its operational design domain (ODD). This session will also offer information about FHWA Road Weather programs and initiatives including voluntary data exchanges to accelerate safe integration of automated vehicles, maintenance decision support systems, and road weather data collection initiatives such as Pathfinder, Integrating Mobile Observations (IMO), and Vehicle Data Transfer (VDT).
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